Biodiversity monitoring is crucial for understanding and preserving the variety of life on Earth. It helps track species health, detect environmental changes, and inform conservation efforts. In tropical forests, biodiversity monitoring is even more critical because these ecosystems are home to a disproportionate amount of the planet’s species. The rapid loss of tropical forests due to deforestation and climate change makes it essential to monitor biodiversity closely. By doing so, we can better protect these vital habitats, safeguard endangered species, and maintain the balance of the ecosystems that regulate global climate and provide essential resources.
Deploying sensor stations by drone offers several key benefits for biodiversity monitoring. Drones enable the efficient deployment of sensor stations in remote and challenging environments, such as dense tropical forests, or tree canopy, reducing logistical challenges and risks. Drones also provide enhanced coverage and precision, allowing for the rapid deployment of sensors over vast areas, ensuring comprehensive biodiversity monitoring of diverse ecosystems. Additionally, by minimizing human presence, drone deployment ensures minimal disturbance to the environment, preserving the natural conditions of fragile habitats while collecting valuable data.
Our technology is designed to collect a wide range of data essential for biodiversity monitoring. It includes images captured by wildlife camera traps, which can identify insects and other wildlife in their natural habitats. Additionally, our insect traps collect specimens, aiding in the study of insect populations and their role in the ecosystem. Our multi-microphone system records sounds to identify and localize birds, frogs, bats, and other species, providing insights into their behavior and presence. We also use environmental DNA (eDNA) through water sampling devices, which can detect species in aquatic environments without needing direct observation. These diverse data collection methods offer a comprehensive view of biodiversity across different ecosystems.
We are proud to have been part of the Limelight Rainforest team, the grand winner of the XPrize Rainforest competition. Our role in this groundbreaking project was to develop and operate all the robotics used in the competition. This included the deployment of sensor stations, camera traps, conservation drones and other innovative technologies to monitor biodiversity in the rainforest. Throughout the competition, our technology performed flawlessly, with not a single failure during the finals. The success of our systems was critical to collecting data which directly lead to species identification. Our robust, reliable technology helped ensure accurate monitoring and species identification, contributing to the team’s victory and advancing the future of biodiversity monitoring in challenging environments.
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