The drone was able to conduct seed sowing and reforestation operations at altitudes below 3,000 meters
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/05/27
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
(Forestry Bureau photo)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwan’s Forestry Bureau has revegetated three landslide areas, using a highly mobile unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), along with seeding materials and a variety of sensors, the forestry bureau said on Friday (May 24).
The bureau said it commissioned a UAV team in October 2018 for tasks using a rotary-wing UAV, to drop seeding materials via a remote-controlled dispenser on landslide areas. The tasks were carried out as part of an effort to establish procedures for aerial seed sowing operations.
The seeding materials were developed by National Chung Hsing University, according to the bureau.
The drone was able to conduct seed sowing and reforestation operations at altitudes below 3,000 meters, carrying a payload of 8-10 kilograms of seeding materials, the bureau said. With each flight being able to drop about 700,000 seeds and each trial site receiving at least 30 flights, about 21 million seeds were dropped on each site, the bureau added.
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