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Much better!!!
#Gopherus 1.2.2 on #Tandy1000

Spring is in the air in the #Mojave! I happened to capture this image of a mating pair of Mojave desert #tortoises (#Gopherus #agassizii) last weekend during a #drone survey - a first! That's an active burrow to the left.

#drones #aiforwildlife #aiforconservation #computervision #deserttortoises

Spring is in the air in the #Mojave! I happened to capture this image of a mating pair of Mojave desert #tortoises (#Gopherus #agassizii) last weekend during a #drone survey - a first! That's an active burrow to the left.

#drones #aiforwildlife #aiforconservation #computervision #deserttortoises

Spring is in the air in the #Mojave! I happened to capture this image of a mating pair of Mojave desert #tortoises (#Gopherus #agassizii) last weekend during a #drone survey - a first! That's an active burrow to the left.

#drones #aiforwildlife #aiforconservation #computervision #deserttortoises

Spring is in the air in the #Mojave! I happened to capture this image of a mating pair of Mojave desert #tortoises (#Gopherus #agassizii) last weekend during a #drone survey - a first! That's an active burrow to the left.

#drones #aiforwildlife #aiforconservation #computervision #deserttortoises

Spring is in the air in the #Mojave! I happened to capture this image of a mating pair of Mojave desert #tortoises (#Gopherus #agassizii) last weekend during a #drone survey - a first! That's an active burrow to the left.

#drones #aiforwildlife #aiforconservation #computervision #deserttortoises

This is what a Mojave desert #tortoise (#Gopherus agassizii) looks like from 20 meters in the air. Imagine that there are 50-100 tortoises in 1,000,000 of these images and you have to find them all. That's what a #drone tortoise survey is.

#drones #tech4wildlife

Adult Sonoran desert #tortoise (#Gopherus morafkai), Maricopa County, AZ. August, 2022.