The ability to fly at very
low altitude while being secured to tethers is a significant advantage in
environment such as the cloud mountains of the Peruvian Andes, where adverse
weather and complex terrain make the deployment of imagery collection systems
very difficult and the cloud cover hinders the collection of satellite imagery.
Furthermore, the Instrument's
capability to relay live geo-referenced imagery and data enables for potential remote
field trips and monitoring of in situ work from abroad, providing
unprecedented simplifications in the research process.
The group of Dr. Kenneth
Feeley [http://www2.fiu.edu/~kfeeley/] at FIU will use the Instrument
in the study of Ecology of the Andes.