Measuring Whales from the Air – Hexacopter Photogrammetry of Cook Inlet Beluga Wwhales

By Paul Wade | NOAA on Sep 5, 2017   Featured, NOAA Fisheries and Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Southcentral  

For the first time, we are using an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), a hexacopter, to collect photographs of the endangered Cook Inlet beluga whale to estimate the length of individual whales and learn more about why it has been slow to recover despite many efforts to help it. The Cook Inlet watershed stretches some 50,000 […]