UAVs Applied to the Counting and Monitoring of Animals

Abstract

The advantages of intelligent approaches such as the conjunction of artificial vision and the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been recently emerging. This paper presents a focused on obtaining scans of large areas of livestock system. Counting and monitoring of animal species can be performed with video recordings taken from UAVs. Moreover the system keeps track of the number of animals detected by analyzing the images taken with the UAVs cameras. Several tests have been performed to evaluate this system and preliminary results and the conclusions are presented in this paper.