{"id":14361,"date":"2015-05-25T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14361"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:58:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:58:18","slug":"drones-how-drones-could-help-an-indigenous-community-fight-mining-and-deforestation-emiko-jozuka-motherboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/drones-how-drones-could-help-an-indigenous-community-fight-mining-and-deforestation-emiko-jozuka-motherboard","title":{"rendered":"DRONES: How Drones Could Help an Indigenous Community Fight Mining and Deforestation Emiko Jozuka | Motherboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe local Wapichana monitoring team learned how to build a fix-winged drone from scratch. The team then mounted a GoPro onto the drone, which shot around 500 images of the Shulinab village along a pre-programmed flight path. Using <a href=\"https:\/\/pix4d.com\/products\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pix4Dmapper<\/a> automatic imaging software, the team were then able to recreate a 3D model of their village from the images. The aim, explained MacLennan in a blog post, is to \u2018create high-resolution up-to-date imagery at a fraction of the cost of satellite imagery.\u2019\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/how-drones-could-help-an-indigenous-community-fight-mining-and-deforestation\" target=\"_blank\"> Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe local Wapichana monitoring team learned how to build a fix-winged drone from scratch. The team then mounted a GoPro onto the drone, which shot around 500 images of the Shulinab village along a pre-programmed flight path. Using Pix4Dmapper automatic imaging software, the team were then able to recreate a 3D model of their village [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64719,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14361\/revisions\/64719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}