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Solve. or the last seven years, visiting professor at the University dynamic mathematical models that would hit it right. of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies Dr. “We have tested APE on private reserves in southern Africa Tom Snitch has been working on probabilistic spatio- for the last two years under Lindbergh Foundation’s Air Shep- Ftemporal models using as many variables as the types of data herd initiative, and whenever we operate our drones in a game he could possibly get his hands on, to define the best flying park, poaching simply stops”, said Snitch. routes for surveillance drones to do their job with the most ef- The drones are equipped with a GPS and two zooming ficiency. camera systems (for visible and infrared His work combining the use of big data light) mounted on gyro-stabilized gimbals. (historical data as well as various sources of At night, the heat signatures of game or satellite imaging) started during the in Iraq poachers is fairly easy to spot even from a and Afghanistan wars when he would try long distance. During day time, the drones to predict the risks of road-side improvised can be flown parallel to park fences to explosive devices (IEDs) and then send out identify breaches (in a matter of minutes surveillance drones to check the hot spots rather than several hours by car on difficult that his algorithms would yield. “Very often, roads), drone operators will also collect by flying a drone over the hot spots indicat- geographical data as they spot animals. In ed by the predictive algorithm, we would be the future, Snitch would want to automate able to spot a person placing an IED some animal presence data collection using im- hours before a US military convoy would The APE system architecture. age processing. “The challenge is finding take a specific route, then even rewind the adequate computer power on a laptop in video to trace the person back to a bomb factory where the IED the bush”, he noted. came from”, Snitch told EETimes Europe. Based on these results, SANParks (South African National This intelligence work was not too much publicized at Parks) announced that these UAV solutions will are now an the time, but being sensible to Africa’s elephants and rhinos integral part of their strategy to combat rhino poaching in the anti-poaching causes, Snitch figured out that his probabilistic Kruger National Park. spatio-temporal models could certainly be tweaked to prevent The Lindbergh Foundation has also launched the Air Shep- poachers from reaching their targets. herd crowdsourcing campaign, aiming to raise USD500,000 Last year, Snitch and his colleagues published a paper de- to fully implement the program for one year at Kruger National scribing a data-driven, behavioural model based Anti-Poaching Park with expansion planned over the next year to seven addi- Oscilloscopes redefined. Engine, dubbed APE. The algorithm tional African countries (throughout We’ve improved on the proven. The new Keysight 3000T oscilloscope Keysight 3000T X-Series combines animal movement be- Africa, an estimated 100,000 el- is the next-generation of the InfiniiVision X-Series. With its zone Bandwidth 100 MHz-1 GHz haviours models and also models ephants were killed between 2010- touch triggering, you can trigger on any signal in just two steps. poachers’ behaviour based on his- 2013 alone). The money collected So you can isolate a signal in seconds—much faster than with any Uncompromised 1M wfms/s Update Rate torical data (from game park rangers’ will help buy drones and train more 8.5-inch Capacitive Touch Screen observations) to churn out coordi- rangers. competing scope. The 3000T is also a 6-in-1 instrument. Along with nated sets of flight paths for drones For this good cause, Snitch plans your oscilloscope, you can get an MSO, WaveGen function generator, Zone Touch Triggering in the air and ranger patrols on the to offer a free licence of APE to protocol analyzer, DVM and counter. Get in touch with the future of scopes. Sample Rate 5 GSa/s ground to best protect animals and African universities willing to further Take the Trigger Challenge today. intercept the poachers before they develop this anti-poaching strategy, strike. helping students collect appropriate “We collected several years’ worth data and tune the algorithm to the of data in South Africa and worked specifics of their countryside. on it to identify mathematical pat- Snitch says his probabilistic terns”, explained Snitch. “Because spatio-temporal models could route some reserves are so wide, you drone flights for many other pur- could fly a drone for a month and poses, such as fighting illegal wood not see a thing. The whole issue is to logging (one source of data could be figure out how to reduce the space freely accessible hyperspectral satel- to be covered” he added. lite imaging from the NASA), figuring So by crunching the data from sa- out the spread of food crop diseases fari sight-seeing, from past poaching and their origins (based on foliage Take the Trigger Challenge at: incidents, snares or animal carcas- hyperspectral signatures, animal www.keysight.com/find/scopetriggerchallenge ses, by taking out from the map the moves and wind patterns), or even areas where the animals are the least to find lost peoples in national parks likely to be (for topographical rea- (apparently, dozens of trekkers get sons or because there are no water lost in American national parks every © Keysight Technologies, Inc. 2015 year, so there would be enough data holes left during particular months), Mapping out the best drone routes. the researchers were able to design to make sense of it). 4 Electronic Engineering Times Europe April 2015 www.electronics-eetimes.com Keysight_3000T_Comparative_PE_EETE.indd 1 08/01/2015 18:21 Touch. Discover. Solve. Oscilloscopes redefined. We’ve improved on the proven. The new Keysight 3000T oscilloscope Keysight 3000T X-Series is the next-generation of the InfiniiVision X-Series. With its zone Bandwidth 100 MHz-1 GHz touch triggering, you can trigger on any signal in just two steps. So you can isolate a signal in seconds—much faster than with any Uncompromised 1M wfms/s Update Rate competing scope. The 3000T is also a 6-in-1 instrument. Along with 8.5-inch Capacitive Touch Screen your oscilloscope, you can get an MSO, WaveGen function generator, Zone Touch Triggering protocol analyzer, DVM and counter.