uas and crowdsourcing fight plant...
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UAS and crowdsourcing fight plant invasions
Josef Brůna1, Jana Müllerová1, Tomáš Bartaloš2, Petr Dvořák3, Michaela Vítková 1
Illustrated by Honza Janák1Institute of Botany of the CAS2GISAT s. r. o. 3Institute for Aerospace Engineering, BUT, [email protected]
Thanks to the kids, we know the exact locations, where Heracleum was hiding.
Here you are agent John. Go get those creatures! Thank you
Now you know how to help us and nature using your smartphones.
So just configure the app correctly and off you go. I will continue my research…
Dear kids, here you can see how dangerous invasive plants can be. Poor Pete is burned.
We should do something about it.
Hi? Is it nature protection agency?Can you please remove these invasive dangerous Heracleum mantegazzianum
plants? We will wait for your agent.
Hi! I am agent John. I am here to kill all those aliens!
Where are they? Did you map them in our app? It would help me to find them.
The app is a result of cooperation between Institute of Botany, GISAT and BUT Brno.
We also go to the field and map ourselves using Collector for ArcGIS and also using our own UAS
Anyone can map invasive species distribution in the field and send the data to us, so that we can calibrate our species detection techniques.
Everything is stored in the cloud and shared instantly.We use the data for semi-automated classification and the distribution data for modelling of species spread.The final maps are passed to the nature protection agency
Do you see? It flies right there and searches for invasive plants.We also use satellite images, where the UAS is not allowed.