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Re: Thermal Drone Deer Census
[Re: Frankie]
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Right behind you
Mbrock
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Fancy
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Right behind you
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Drone surveys are a great snapshot of an exact number of a deer on a property at a given time. You can indeed get buck:doe ratios, ages and fawn recruitment as long as you have a good operator who can identify deer. The zooming capabilities of these drones is unbelievable. But do it state wide ? Heck no
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Re: Thermal Drone Deer Census
[Re: CNC]
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Earth
TDog93
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I got a buddy starting drone recovery service
Gonna be hard to ever go away from art powers though😀
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self
We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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Re: Thermal Drone Deer Census
[Re: Mbrock]
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marshmud991
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Drone surveys are a great snapshot of an exact number of a deer on a property at a given time. You can indeed get buck:doe ratios, ages and fawn recruitment as long as you have a good operator who can identify deer. The zooming capabilities of these drones is unbelievable. Last November we had a hunter fall out of his boat for some reason and drowned. I found the boat doing the death circle that night. Our department has one of those large thermal drones. One of our operators came met me that night with it and we flew the banks of the river hoping to find him up on the bank. We were unsuccessful at finding him but man did we figure out that there was a ton of deer that lived in those marshes on the edge of that river. I wish we’d kept track of the number of deer we saw that night. That drone has proved to be a very valuable tool for us but I can’t see where it could be used to survey animals on in a certain area. It would be interesting just to see what lives on our place in Monroe co.
It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chews your a$$ all day long.
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Re: Thermal Drone Deer Census
[Re: Frankie]
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Pwyse
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Drone surveys are a great snapshot of an exact number of a deer on a property at a given time. You can indeed get buck:doe ratios, ages and fawn recruitment as long as you have a good operator who can identify deer. The zooming capabilities of these drones is unbelievable. But do it state wide ? No way. It’s not easy. It’s time consuming.
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Re: Thermal Drone Deer Census
[Re: Pwyse]
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Squadron77
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Drone surveys are a great snapshot of an exact number of a deer on a property at a given time. You can indeed get buck:doe ratios, ages and fawn recruitment as long as you have a good operator who can identify deer. The zooming capabilities of these drones is unbelievable. But do it state wide ? No way. It’s not easy. It’s time consuming. I can fly at night and get a count on heat signatures but have no idea what they are. If I fly in the day it needs to be overcast and cool and it take a lot of work to see every deer. You can't see into young pines or bay trees. Here are a couple of daytime videos that show the thermal and zoom. I may do a night flight this weekend just to see the video. cruising buck7 PT buck
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Re: Thermal Drone Deer Census
[Re: CNC]
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CNC
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Here’s more along the lines of what I was thinking in practical terms……Don’t state biologists go out and give private landowners recommendations on how many deer to shoot??......All I’m saying is…..with the thermal technology we have now it would seem like that a drone census would be a helpful tool in making those recommendations……AND in doing so you would have a lot of compiled data to reference.
We dont rent pigs
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Re: Thermal Drone Deer Census
[Re: CNC]
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Squadron77
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Here’s more along the lines of what I was thinking in practical terms……Don’t state biologists go out and give private landowners recommendations on how many deer to shoot??......All I’m saying is…..with the thermal technology we have now it would seem like that a drone census would be a helpful tool in making those recommendations……AND in doing so you would have a lot of compiled data to reference. That would work better than doing a camera survey. I understand that a lot of the bigger drones can fly a grid and log every heat signature it sees with location so you can go back and check them. All you have to do is enter the property boundaries on the drone and wait until it runs the grid.
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Re: Thermal Drone Deer Census
[Re: Pwyse]
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Elmore County
Frankie
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Drone surveys are a great snapshot of an exact number of a deer on a property at a given time. You can indeed get buck:doe ratios, ages and fawn recruitment as long as you have a good operator who can identify deer. The zooming capabilities of these drones is unbelievable. But do it state wide ? No way. It’s not easy. It’s time consuming. The state doing and a land owner doing it is two different things . CNC talking about the state doing it .
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