Fujitsu Australia worked with the Saving our Species (SOS) Team as a result of connections brokered by Sustainability Advantage. The successful partnership leveraged Fujitsu’s computing and drone technologies to help locate endangered species for management and invasive plant species for eradication purposes. The result was the award winning digital owl project.
Fujitsu’s high-performance computing, video analytics and drone technology helped the SOS team capture and analyse video information over a broad geographic area. The trial revealed the location of a plant species threatened with extinction, as well as helping to showcase opportunities for significant savings in helicopter fuel, charter costs and emissions compared to traditional ways of undertaking this work.
The project won the 2019 Banksia Large Business Award and the Natural Environment Award at the 2019 Green Globe Awards. Fujitsu is a Silver Partner of Sustainability Advantage.
Watch the Digital Owl video which explains their motivation and the project in more detail.