Narla Ecologists recently used UAV hardware, and state of the art mapping software, to investigate the extent of damage caused by the 2019/2020 bushfires at a 400 ha Biodiversity Stewardship Site in the Garland Valley, NSW. This innovative technique enabled Narla’s Ecologists to rapidly assess impacts to biodiversity on a very large scale, which reduced the time on site to a matter of hours rather than days.
Using UAV technology to acquire real-time, high-resolution aerial imagery is proving to be an invaluable tool for the future management of this site.
The site is known to house the EPBC and BC listed endangered Persoonia hirsuta.