Lian Pin Koh: A drone's-eye view of conservation
ليان بين كوه: رؤية عين طائرات الحماية الآلية
Lian Pin Koh expands conservation efforts by championing the use of low-cost autonomous aerial vehicles. Full bio
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these components are.
your own conservation drone,
طائرة الحماية خاصتك
and more complicated,
وأكثر تعقيداً،
in a lawnmower-type pattern
في نمط من نوع تهذيب الحشائش
and panic for the next few minutes
ويشعر بالذعر في الدقائق القليلة التالية
to look up in the treetops
وتحتاج للكثير من العمالة،
that was flying overhead,
of just the animals themselves,
للحيوانات نفسها، فقط
these animals live in,
الأماكن التي تعيش فيها هذه الحيوانات،
plantations might be expanding,
المزارع يمكن ان تتوسع،
for detecting poachers or their campfires at night.
للكشف عن الصيادين أو نيران مخياتهم في الليل.
of these animals across the landscape.
and cumbersome radio antenna,
هوائي راديو ضخم ومرهق جدا،
أو ما يطلق عليه بيج فوت (ذو القدم الكبيرة)، أيا كان.
about this technology.
fooling around with toy planes.
أننا نعبث مع لعبة الطائرات.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Lian Pin Koh - Drones ecologistLian Pin Koh expands conservation efforts by championing the use of low-cost autonomous aerial vehicles.
Why you should listen
Lian Pin Koh is a relentless tinkerer and science fiction movie geek, though most know him as an environmental scientist. His dreams of combining these interests led him to cofound, with colleague Serge Wich, the site ConservationDrones.org, a project dedicated to gathering intelligence on forests and wildlife through the use of low-cost unmanned flying machines.
Ground surveys are expensive, and are not conducted at a sufficient frequency. Furthermore, some remote tropical forests have never been really surveyed for biodiversity. Koh's machines have already collected valuable information in Sumatra, Congo, Gabon, and Madagascar.
He is an assistant professor of applied ecology and conservation at the ETH Zurich.
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