DRONES FOR WILDLIFE
Project team viewing live-stream of olive ridleys through the drone-controller. (© Nancy Alice/ Technology for Wildlife Foundation & WWF-India)
Tracking Turtles
Every year, hundreds of thousands of olive ridley turtles nest on the beaches of Odisha and return to the sea. This joint field survey with WWF-India and Dakshin Foundation was conducted with the goal of studying the near-shore aggregations of these turtles.
MONItoring Riverine Ecosystems
Gangetic river dolphins and gharials, endangered species in the Indo-Gangetic Basin, face threats from habitat loss, poaching, and pollution. In collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Trust we are used visual surveys, UAVs, and CPODs to study these species.
Aerial view of braided channels in the Gandak River, April 2022. (© Technology for Wildlife Foundation)
TfW team member catching a drone. (© Nandini Mehrotra/ Technology for Wildlife Foundation)
Machine Perspectives of Alien Landscapes
In August 2019, we set out to visit a set of high-altitude lakes in the Indian trans-Himalaya. Supported by the National Geographic Society, our expedition used robots to explore these lakes for a new perspective in addition to documenting plastic contamination.