{"id":733,"date":"2014-08-04T15:47:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T15:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dronesforearth.org\/?p=733"},"modified":"2021-11-28T13:56:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T13:56:25","slug":"nature-conservation-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dronesforearth.org\/index.php\/2014\/08\/04\/nature-conservation-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature conservation in Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In May 2014, four members of Drones For Earth spent two weeks in the wild Namibian bush drone-mapping\u00a0savanna, sand and rock for land and wildlife conservation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a picture speaks a thousand words, here&#8217;s a gallery of images from our flights at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuzikus-namibia.de\/\">Kuzikus Wildlife Reserve<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gobabebtrc.org\/\">Gobabeb Research and Training Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/126202620@N08\/14966602285\/in\/set-72157646054114519\/player\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The mission in numbers:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Project performed in: 2014<\/li><li>UAS platform: senseFly eBee<\/li><li>Camera payload: RGB<\/li><li>Total flights: 91<\/li><li>Total images acquired: 15,000<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dronesforearth.org\/?p=733\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>During this mission we took almost 15,000 aerial images with 91 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sensefly.com\">eBee <\/a>drone flights, generating 350GB of data that took our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pix4d.com\">Pix4D <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/lasig.epfl.ch\/\">EPFL-LASIG <\/a>weeks to process! &nbsp;Analysis of the data is still ongoing, here&#8217;s a sneak peak at one of the zones that we mapped around Gobabeb:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.tiles.mapbox.com\/v4\/droneadv.i557h1ca.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiZHJvbmVhZHYiLCJhIjoiYmU0ZXQtcyJ9.8Fh95YZQ_WdYEDlgtmH95A\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>We call this dataset &#8220;The Three Deserts.&#8221; The dry Kuiseb riverbed has enough water during the year to support lush green trees on its dry shores, and creates a natural border between the red sand dunes of the Namib desert to the south-west and the rocky yellow expanse of the to the north-east. &nbsp;As an added bonus, have a look at this video fly-through of the dataset!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aR2lqQF5KHQ\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"7200\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2014, four members of Drones For Earth spent two weeks in the wild Namibian bush drone-mapping\u00a0savanna, sand and rock for land and wildlife conservation. As a picture speaks a thousand words, here&#8217;s a gallery of images from our flights at Kuzikus Wildlife Reserve&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Gobabeb Research and Training Center. The mission in numbers: Project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronesforearth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronesforearth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronesforearth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronesforearth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronesforearth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/dronesforearth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/dronesforearth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronesforearth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronesforearth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronesforearth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronesforearth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}