Surveying Oyster Reefs with Drones #drone #droneday

University of Florida researchers have shown that oyster reefs can be quickly surveyed with drone-base lidar, giving reef managers more time to take action when needed:

In the time it takes a person to measure just one or two square meters of reef, you can survey the entire reef structure with a drone,” said Michael Espriella, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Florida.

New research by Espriella and his UF colleagues shows that the digital elevation map produced by drone-based lidar – which pushes out rapid laser pulses that can measure distance – can accurately determine the condition of an oyster reef with much less time and labor than old-fashioned manual surveys.

Read more from University of Florida and ScienceDirect

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