Hunting Vertebrate Fossils with Drones

[Oxytropidoceras]

Below are some miscellanous articles and publications

about using drones to find vertebrate fossils.

 

Surveyors use drone technology to map dinosaur

footprints in Sunland Park By Jason McNabb, April 26, 2023

 

Earlham geologists use aerial technology, 3D mapping

to discover fossils buried in desert

Earlham College, August 26, 2022

 

Reinhart, J.A., 2020. Using drone mounted multispectral

cameras to map fossil sites (Masters thesis).

 

Beelders, T. and Dollman, G., 2021. Virtual Prospecting 

in Paleontology Using a Drone-Based Orthomosaic Map:

An Eye Movement Analysis. ISPRS International 

Journal of Geo-Information, 10(11), p.753.

 

Automated laser-scanning ‘hunter drone’ seeks out

fossils, minerals and biological targets, Hong Kong University                                     

 

Automated laser-scanning 'hunter drone' seeks out 

fossils, minerals and biological targets, 

The University of Hong Kong

 

Yours,

Paul H.

[patelinho7]

Funny, I had just asked about this a few weeks ago! This is a much larger/impressive scale than what I was wondering about however. Fascinating, thanks for the links!