Researcher ORCID Identifier
0000-0002-3679-0345
Graduation Year
2020
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science
Department
Biology
Reader 1
Matina Donaldson-Matasci
Reader 2
Eliot Bush
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2020 Arya R Massarat
Abstract
Poor nutrition among modern day honey bee colonies is contributing to their decline. Yet understanding how the diversity and abundance of flowering species around a colony affects its health remains difficult because of the manual labor required to analyze these large foraging landscapes. We describe a procedure for automatically mapping the species of flowering plants around a colony from overlapping drone images. We developed a pipeline for stitching the images together, identifying plants within them, and classifying each plant by its species. The resulting map of the flowering species surrounding a colony could be used in future experiments that aim to assess how a colony’s health and foraging behavior is influenced by the spatial distribution of the floral species in its vicinity.
Recommended Citation
Massarat, Arya, "Mapping Floral Resources for Bees using Drone Imagery" (2020). HMC Senior Theses. 256.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmc_theses/256
Comments
Source code and documentation for the pipeline is available on Github.