Hmm, so this uses RFID tags to track bats? Interesting... ;-)
-Stefan From: Louise Power [mailto:power_lou...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 2:57 PM To: texas cavers; s...@caver.net Subject: [Texascavers] "Tracking bats on the wing" (BATS, BCI, p 2) The Winter 2012 issue of BATS, the BCI publication just out, has a very interesting article on an autonomous aircraft being developed to track radio-tagged bats on the wing. The work is being done by Nathan W Fuller (PhD candidate in biology at Boston University) and Kenneth D Sebesta, PhD (visiting scholar, Dept of Mechanical Engr, Boston University) with financial help from a BCI Student Research Scholarship. Allows bats to be tracked at nite in real time. The fully autonomous airborne platform costs less than $500 in parts. I can foresee a system of this kind being used to track other elusive wildlife targets. -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.
