By developing low-cost, UAV-mounted radio telemetry systems that can receive radio signals from tagged wildlife, and by making the pre-engineered systems available to wildlife researchers via open source publishing, they hope to significantly reduce the barriers to tracking animals in the wild. Here, a member of Michael Shafer's research team tests a UAV equipped with a radio telemetry system in a controlled environment.

Credit: Michael Shafer, Northern Arizona University

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