America ’s got jolly good at using drones to hunt and pour down braggart tangible things , but Hellfire missiles and Reapers are n’t all that good at get over little insects . But that has n’t stopped researchers from using ( small , less mortal ) drones to help push the ranch of infectious disease .
Live Science has a great write - upon the oeuvre of Chris Drakeley and fellow professors from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , who have been using a small desexualise - flank dawdler to chase after the spreading of a particular malaria parasite in macaque monkeys and human beings . fundamentally , the radio-controlled aircraft start the researchers to represent ground use , which , when combined with GPS tracking of world and monkeys , facilitate them to map the spread of disease .
It ’s yet another example of how cheap(ish ) engineering — in this compositor’s case lowly R / C aircraft and GPS trackers — can be used in unexpected ways , and mix together do pretty straight things that would ’ve antecedently necessitate the use of satellites ( or years of cheap grad scholarly person labor ) . The full article is definitely deserving a read . [ Live Science ]
http://www.livescience.com/48396-drones-track-infectious-disease.html ?
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