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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #12 The Drone Boom
Description: No-one knows how many penguins are in the Antarctic, but
thanks to the use of drones this is set to change as scientists are using these
unmanned aerial vehicles to fly over colonies of chinstrap, adelie and gentoos.
And that is not all. Academics at the University of East Anglia are developing
artificial intelligence that can count the birds massively cutting down the
processing time required to determine the numbers. Such techniques have
applications in the built environment too. Drones that can use AI to report
cracks on buildings for example could transform surveying methods.
Just a...