Drones will protect the Amazon rainforest – Interia

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Soon drones can be used to fight illegal felling of the Amazon rainforest.

This is the Amazon from the perspective of a drone (Fig. Max Messinger / Wake Forest University)

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Those who will want to use drones for commercial purposes will need to undergo flight training and pass an examination – according to the prepared by the Polish Civil Aviation Office (ULC) draft amendments to the two regulations on the use of drones. read more

Group of ecologists from the Peruvian Amazon Basin Conservation organization Association uses a drone to monitor illegal logging of tropical forests. Worth $ 5,000. “Flying wing” developed by Max Messinger, a student from Wake Forest University, is built of lightweight foam with a length of 1 m. The device has an autopilot and a Canon camera.

When the drone will be the suspected place, it rises to a height of nearly 15 km and incoming quietly collect evidence of illegal activity. The gadget has already been tested in the field. With his help, we were unable to scan vast areas of forest with an area of ​​almost 1500 km ² .

Dron wrote the tests was exemplary. He was able to detect several mines and places of illegal logging. Scientists argue that you can use it for other, purely scientific purposes.

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