United States xueba-made drones: African national parks – unmanned aerial vehicle-IT information

Now UAVs have become one of the hot topics of the IT sector, many companies are involved in the equipment research and development. But compared with the professional equipment, if you can make your own UAV, wouldn't it be very proud thing? United States an "xueba" on the realization of this dream, making himself a drone to help Rwanda's Akagera national park staff completed a heavy patrols.

This message comes from the India Christian newspaper, United States Denver School of science and technology 18-year-olds Max Alger-Meyer and classmate Nathan Lepore after returning from Rwanda, where environmental protection is needed to support, so they decided to do something for them. Because they are students, so can't afford to buy the expensive drones, but two people are able to overcome the difficulties of science and engineering, self-reliant development and manufacture of drones and donated to the Park and reduce the burden of patrolling for park staff.

It is reported that Akagera national park managers Jes Gruner said, patrolling the Park is actually very helicopter-assisted, but because of the high price of helicopter, the Park cannot afford, so for animal protection can only count statistics twice a year. After the drones, although the effect than helicopters, but can be used to detect forest fires, or conduct patrols in key areas.

Alger-Meyer has assembled the drone before graduation and hope this summer in Rwanda, and simple training for Park patrol officers, teaching them to use, he will enter next year aeronautical engineering school at the University of Colorado. Unmanned aerial vehicles if you are proficient in, then it will be more obvious, such as searching for poachers, but the Director-General of save the rhino international, Casey said, such a task requires the operator to have a higher level of technology. So as a general rule, each national park drones are responsible for detection and inspection of animals and their Habitat, because the difficult operation is relatively low.

美国学霸自制无人机：解决非洲国家公园巡逻难题 - 无人机 - IT资讯

现在无人机成了IT界的热门话题之一，很多公司都参与该设备的研发。不过和这些专业设备比起来，如果能够自己动手制作一架无人机，那岂不是非常得意的事？美国一位“学霸”就实现了这个梦想，自己制作了一架无人机，帮助非洲卢旺达阿卡迦拉国家公园工作人员完成繁重的巡逻工作。

这一消息来自于《印度教徒报》，美国丹佛科学与技术学院18岁学生Max Alger-Meyer和同学Nathan Lepore从卢旺达回国后，感到那里的环保事业非常需要支持，因此就决定为他们做点什么。由于他们还是学生，因此买不起价格昂贵的无人机，但出身理工科的二人却能够克服种种困难，自力更生研发和制造无人机并捐献给公园，为公园工作人员减轻巡逻负担。

据悉，阿卡迦拉国家公园经理Jes Gruner表示，该公园其实很需要直升机辅助巡逻，但由于直升机售价高昂，公园无力负担，因此对于动物保护也只能一年两次进行计数统计。而有了无人机之后，虽然效果比不上直升机，但能够用于探测森林火灾，或者进行重点区域巡逻任务。

Alger-Meyer已经在毕业前组装好了无人机，并且希望今年夏天带到卢旺达，并且对公园巡逻人员进行简单培训，教会他们使用方法，他明年将进入科罗拉多大学航空工程学院就读。无人机如果能够熟练运用，那么它的作用还将更加显著，比如用于搜寻偷猎者，但拯救犀牛国际组织总干事凯西表示，此类任务要求操作者拥有更高的技术水准。所以一般而言，各个国家公园基本上都让无人机负责探测与巡查动物及其栖息地，因为操作难度相对较低。