AUVSI's Unmanned Systems 2016

David Bird
Professor
McGill University


As an Emeritus Professor of Wildlife Biology of McGill University in Canada, Dr. Bird has published 200 peer-reviewed papers on wildlife, authored/edited 10 books, and supervised 50 graduate students. He has worked with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for 10 years, e.g. counting and mapping habitat use for water birds, censusing hawk nests, dispersing nuisance birds, and detecting caribou in Labrador. As the founding editor of the Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems, he also serves as a board member of Unmanned Systems Canada. He has given several keynote talks and organized symposia and panel discussions on UAVs and wildlife studies at conferences world-wide.

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