| Abstract |
UAV's, specifically miniature surveying drones, are becoming increasingly popular for high-resolution, easily repeatable aerial photography for biodiversity monitoring purposes. Such a drone was recently obtained for exactly this purpose - to aid the monitoring of the woody vegetation at the biodiversity observatories in Namibia. The biodiversity observatories in Namibia however do not only cover woodland or savanna vegetation - in the contrary, several are situated in both dwarf shrub savanna (with the dominating woody vegetation below 1 m height) as well as desert biomes, including the Namib lichen fields. |
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