The great wildebeest migration, seen from space: satellites and AI are helping count Africa’s wildlife

By Isla C. Duporge, British–French zoologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University
Daniel Rubenstein, Professor of Zoology and Director, Program in Environmental Studies, Princeton University
David Macdonald, Professor of Wildlife Conservation and Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford
Tiejun Wang, Associate Professor in Remote Sensing and Geospatial Ecology, University of Twente

Using satellites and AI, scientists have mapped wildebeest across the Serengeti-Mara, offering a new perspective on how this movement can be monitored from space.

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