ResearchDrones in Congo

In December 2012 Remo and I were invited to do a technology demonstration in the National Park Odzala, in the Republic of Congo (not DRC).

It was an interesting field trip, the first time for us being out there with researchers.

Out of this 9 day trip, only 2 days could be spent on flying, testing and training. The rest of the time we spent on airplanes, hotels and most of it in a Jeep driving roughly 1600km from the airport to the national park on more or less something we would call roads.


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The 3 nights in the field we spent in a camp of the Forrestry Administration in Mbomo (1.5h away from our flying site).

Here a short video of the test flights we were conducting in the Savannah in the middle of the national park.