#conservationdrones

1) Drones Overhead: Protecting the Rain Forest from Above: Bird's eye view can reveal illegal logging, locate orangutan nests and provide conservationists with all kinds of data quickly and cheaply (via National Geographic)

2) ConservationDrones: Started by an ecologist and primate biologist  in 2011. Developed a drone cheap enough to use in the field (conservation budget are always anorexic…). How to seminars and documentation (website)

3) Technology for Nature:  Collaborative partnership between the Zoological Society of London, University College London, and Microsoft Research to develop technology for conservsation work. (website) 

4) Cooperative Automonous Observing Systems collaborative at MIT: Focuses on "technology for  dynamic data and model driven observing systems in environmental and atmospheric applications using cooperating autonmous aircraft."

5) Agriculture, the New Game of Drones: Behold the new farmworker: seeds, weeds, sprays, surveys and scares birds, too (via The Futurist) 

6) Colorado judge rules in favor of holding drone-hunting vote after legal fight Well, the headline says it all. The very real vote will take place on April Fool's Day, 2014 (via Fox News) 

7) UC Davis investigates using helicopter drones for crop dusting: A staple of Japanese agriculture—perfect for "built-up areas, rugged terrain, or mixed-use regions." Testing motorcycle-sized helicopter on grape vines (via Gizmag) 

8) High-Flying Harvests: Surveying a vineyard pinpoints which grapes are ripening faster. "Twenty years from now we probably won't be even taking about it because it's going to be a product like a tractor or any other piece of equipment on a farm."  (via 3DRobotics)

9) How drones are transforming agriculture: Flying over British farms, micro-managing fields and ponderfing pesky privacy issue (via BBC) 

10) Sea Drones Venture Into Uncharted Waters: Sailing into waters for science, commerce, defense and the record books (via BusinessWeek)

11) Small Drone Crashes Into New York City Sidewalk: Hobbyist flies a drone for a 3 minute joyride over rush hour Manhattan (via ABC7 NY - video)