Barbara Bollard Breen
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.
Title: Remote sensing in conservation and ecological research
Biography
Biography: Barbara Bollard Breen
Abstract
The Auckland University of Technology unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) research team are leaders in the application of UAV technology and remote sensing in conservation and ecological research. The team works in partnership with industry to customise and develop unmanned systems for use in New Zealand and extreme environments such as Antarctica, desert systems and offshore islands. Low flying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) offer ecologists new opportunities to collect scale appropriate data at high spatial and temporal resolution. The presentation will showcase the use of UAVs in spatial ecology and demonstrate existing post processing tools for UAV imagery. The talk will explore opportunities for use of computer vision techniques for analysis of high resolution video imagery in a variety of environments and ecological studies.