Specially adapted drones successfully use a "tap and go" approach to apply monitoring tags to whales, speeding up the process and avoiding human interference
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Specially adapted drones successfully use a "tap and go" approach to apply monitoring tags to whales, speeding up the process and avoiding human interference
Article URL: http://plos.io/4meypZo
Article title: Drone-based application of whale tags: A “tap-and-go” approach for scientific animal-borne investigations
Author countries: U.S., Dominica, Canada
Funding: This study was financially supported by Project CETI (https://www.projectceti.org) via Dalio Philanthropies (https://www.daliophilanthropies.org), OceanX (https://oceanx.org), Sea Grape Foundation (http://www.seagrapefoundation.org), Virgin Unite (https://unite.virgin.com) and Rosamund Zander/Hansjorg Wyss in the form of grants received by DFG, SG and RW through The Audacious Project: a collaborative funding initiative housed at TED (https://www.audaciousproject.org). This study was also financially supported by the National Geographic Society (https://www.nationalgeographic.org/society) in the form of a grant (NGS-72337T-20) received by DFG, SG and RW. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Article URL: http://plos.io/4meypZo
Article title: Drone-based application of whale tags: A “tap-and-go” approach for scientific animal-borne investigations
Author countries: U.S., Dominica, Canada
Funding: This study was financially supported by Project CETI (https://www.projectceti.org) via Dalio Philanthropies (https://www.daliophilanthropies.org), OceanX (https://oceanx.org), Sea Grape Foundation (http://www.seagrapefoundation.org), Virgin Unite (https://unite.virgin.com) and Rosamund Zander/Hansjorg Wyss in the form of grants received by DFG, SG and RW through The Audacious Project: a collaborative funding initiative housed at TED (https://www.audaciousproject.org). This study was also financially supported by the National Geographic Society (https://www.nationalgeographic.org/society) in the form of a grant (NGS-72337T-20) received by DFG, SG and RW. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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