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Airport Wildlife Monitoring Utilizing sUAS

Publications/Presentations

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Meilun Zhou, Jared A Elmore, Sathishkumar Samiappan, Kristine O Evans, Morgan B Pfeiffer, Bradley F Blackwell, Raymond B Iglay (2021). Improving Animal Monitoring Using Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) and Deep Learning Networks. Sensors, 21(17), 5697; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21175697

Conference Presentations

Sathishkumar Samiappan, Meilun Zhou and Robert Moorhead 2020. Identifying wildlife from aerial imagery using CNNs. Presented at the Wildlife Society’s 27th Annual Conference - Virtual.

Meilun Zhou, Jared Elmore, Sathishkumar Samiappan, Ray Iglay, Kristine Evans, Brad Blackwell, Morgan Pfeiffer 2021. Classifying wildlife from aerial imagery using deep learning neural networks. Presented at the Wildlife Society’s 28th Annual Conference – Virtual.

Meilun Zhou, Jared Elmore, Sathishkumar Samiappan, Ray Iglay, Kristine Evans, Brad Blackwell, Morgan Pfeiffer, 2021. Aerial Wildlife Image Repository (AWIR) – A dataset to accelerate the development of highly accurate machine learning models to classify wildlife from aerial imagery. Presented at the Wildlife Society’s 28th Annual Conference – Virtual.

Elmore JA, Shultz EA, Jones JL, Evans KO, Pfeiffer MB, Samiappan S, Zhou M, Blackwell BF, and Iglay RB. July 2022. A systematic map of utilizing small Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) to monitor wildlife. BirdStrike Committee USA Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Jones LJ, Elmore JA, Boopalan SK, Shultz EA, Blackwell BF, Evans KO, Pfeiffer MB, Samiappan S, and Iglay RB. July 2022. Controllable factors affecting accuracy of human identification of wildlife in images obtained during UAS surveys. BirdStrike Committee USA Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Boopalan SK, Samiappan S, Elmore JA, Jones LR, Pfeiffer MB, Evans KO, Blackwell BF, and Iglay RB. July 2022. Artificial Intelligence for detection and classification of wildlife from UAS imagery. BirdStrike Committee USA Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dehart D, Samiappan S, Boopalan SK, Elmore JA, Jones LR, Pfeiffer MB, Blackwell BF, Iglay RB, and Evans KO. July 2022. Aerial Wildlife Image Repository (AWIR) - A dataset and collaborative environment to label and classify wildlife from aerial imagery. BirdStrike Committee USA Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Elmore JA, Shultz EA, Jones JL, Blackwell BF, Evans KO, Pfeiffer MB, Samiappan S, Zhou M, and Iglay RB. June 2022. A systematic map of utilizing small Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) to monitor birds and other wildlife. American Ornithological Society Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Jones LJ, Elmore JA, Boopalan SK, Shultz EA, Blackwell BF, Evans KO, Pfeiffer MB, Samiappan S, and Iglay RB. June 2022. Controllable factors affecting accuracy of human identification of birds in images obtained during UAS surveys. American Ornithological Society Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Elmore JA, Shultz EA, Jones JL, Blackwell BF, Evans KO, Pfeiffer MB, Samiappan S, Zhou M, and Iglay RB. November 2022. A systematic map of utilizing small Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) to monitor wildlife. Drone Applications in Wildlife and Spatial Ecology. The Wildlife Society 29th Annual Conference. Organizers: R Spaulding, D Bird.

Jones LJ, Elmore JA, Boopalan SK, Shultz EA, Blackwell BF, Evans KO, Pfeiffer MB, Samiappan S, and Iglay RB. November 2022. Controllable factors affecting accuracy of human identification of wildlife in images obtained during UAS surveys. Drone Applications in Wildlife and Spatial Ecology. The Wildlife Society 29th Annual Conference. Organizers: R Spaulding, D Bird.

Boopalan SK, Samiappan S, Elmore JA, Jones LR, Pfeiffer MB, Evans KO, Blackwell BF, and Iglay RB. November 2022. Artificial intelligence for detection and classification of wildlife from small unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) imagery. Drone Applications in Wildlife and Spatial Ecology. The Wildlife Society 29th Annual Conference. Organizers: R Spaulding, D Bird.

Schultz EA, Boopalan SK, Iglay RB, Evans KO, Pfeiffer MB, Jones LR, Elmore JA, Blackwell BF, and Samiappan S. November 2022. Automated image classification with convolutional neural networks for large image datasets: a biologist's perspective. The Wildlife Society 29th annual conference.