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UAVs for Anti Poaching

Posted by JerryBerry on March 15, 2012 at 8:58am

I'm working for environmental and anti poaching organizations in Africa. The problem is that there is often not enough personnel to patrol the entire area. We're loosing a lot of game.

We're therefore looking for a low cost, affordable reconnaissance UAVs as an alternative to more expensive existing UAV systems or manned airplanes.

It should possess the following attibutes: 

- operational range of 3 km

- weatherproof design that can resist hot temperatures

- GPS

-autopilot

- real time video transmission

- cost between $1000 - $ 3000

Could you recommend us any models? 

Thank you, man! Your help is greatly appreciated!

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  • Murray Spoelstra April 1, 2012 at 11:03am

    I've been considering building one in that price class for the same purpose. I live in South Africa where the Rhinos are being poached at an alarming rate.

    Can you tell me more about your requirements Eg. Would it be transported in a vehicle or backback? Does it need to be able to land at a remote location and send back pictures before returning? Does it need to fly at night? How important is vertical take-off and landing?

  • Björn Videnberg March 17, 2012 at 11:29am

    Me reflection to this post was that i remember a post about some guy using a skywalker like model equiped with FPV equipment and a flir camera. Used to track down pigs in fields. Getting the gps coordinates from the gps and then stalk them at the ground. Then I guess it works hunting poachers with such plane instead. wont have enormous flight time durability though. If a flir camera works in such conditions.  

    Link to the on diydrones, than then was linked to rcgroups or something.

     

    http://www.diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A...

  • brakar March 16, 2012 at 5:52pm

    I too suspect the price range is a bit low for a complete system, but you could also have a look at this one: http://www.trigger.pl/pteryx/

  • bcrow March 16, 2012 at 2:26pm

    $1000.00 - 3000.00 is rolling pretty low for what you want. You may want to build based on a kit - or build up an older model. We bought a more expensive model, but it will pay for itself over time.....an investment. i did not want to have to keep going through what did not work  

    my email is bcrow.mt@gmail.com if you would like more info. 

     

     Good luck, great project

     

    cheers, byron

     

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