| Drone Used to Monitor Killer Whales Out in the Open Ocean for First Time Chelsea Harvey - Business Insider | |
| go to original September 29, 2014 |
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Video of killer whales out in the open ocean (Vancouver Aquarium)
Scientists have captured an amazing bird's-eye video of killer whales, not from a plane or a helicopter, but from an aerial drone.
Last month, researchers from Vancouver Aquarium and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) used a hexacopter to take 30,000 photos of a northern resident killer whale population over the course of 60 flights. The researchers can use these aerial photos to evaluate the health of individual whales, including to determine whether they are sick or pregnant.
It may sound crazy, but aerial images can give researchers all kinds of information from afar.
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