Author: Dr Catherine Ball - World of Drones Education Back in 2013 the project team I was leading spent a week flying long-range reconnaissance drones off the coast of Western Australia for 10 hours covering hundreds of kilometres per day. We used Australian technology previously used to look for insurgents in Afghanistan to look for turtles and their tracks and nests on offshore sandy islands. The innovation was not in the drone itself, but in the application of that platfor