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CropCam is for the birds!
Three years ago, while working on his Master’s Degree, Dominique Chabot ,and his advisor, Professor David M. Bird, started investigating the possibility of using small UAVs to study wildlife populations in Canada. For their two year study, they selected MicroPilot’s CropCam UAV for its affordability and ease of use. Previously, neither Dominique nor Dr. Bird had any experience with UAVs.
Dominique identified key advantages of using the CropCam UAV:
Dominique’s work has not gone unnoticed even outside his natural field of study. Last November, Dominique presented a “Student Paper” at the UVS Canada’s annual convention in Victoria B.C. Started by UVS Canada in 2003, the Student Paper competition is open to all Canadian university students. To date, winners have been, understandably, exclusively engineering students. The uniqueness and exceptional quality of Dominique’s work was recognized by the judges who awarded him the top prize, a trip to Paris to present his work at the UVS International convention. Recently the Quebec Farmer’s Advocate published an article on the achievements of Dominique and Dr. Bird.
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