An unmanned aircraft on Monday hovered over for about 30 minutes over the Kaziranga National Park in Assam after state Forest Minister Rakibul Hussain inaugurated the test flight, ushering in an era of hi-tech anti-poaching measures at the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The first-of-its-kind test flight was launched at 4pm at Mihimukh in Kohora range of the park in the presence of a huge gathering and representative of the Switzerland-based aircraft manufacturing company, WWF-India, Wildlife Institute of India.
The test flights will be conducted till April 11.
WII scientist K Ramesh is heading the monitoring team. The aircraft is equipped with one still camera, one thermo camera and one movie camera.
Sources in the KNP informed that encouragingly clear visuals were taken by the aircraft during the test flights. The visuals were monitored in the control room set up at
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