1. Drones Can Map The World In Stunning Detail
2. Drones Work Tirelessly To Help Save Lives...
3. And To Treat People In Remote Areas...
4. Drones Will Finally Allow Us To Stop Climbing Trees, After Millions Of Years
Small tress are still fair game, but Helene Muller-Landau, an ecologist with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, says drones could give scientists quicker and easier access to massive new troves of data. For example, ecologists can survey forests much more thoroughly, gathering information about the tree tops and forest canopies that were before only reachable by humans willing to scale the trees. This would be preferred to imagery from a satellite, or from a costly flyover by a traditional aircraft that would lack the pinpoint resolution, or wouldn’t allow for frequent data collection.