Robot Cowboy: Reviving Tundra Grassland through Robotic Herding

The degradation of permafrost ecology in the arctic regions threatens the release of stored ancient greenhouse gas, risking a potential acceleration of global warming to catastrophic effects. The cooperation of digital sensing and robotics surpasses human capability to create a relationship between...

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Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://cumincad.architexturez.net//doc/oai-cumincadworks-id-acadia13-147
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Summary:The degradation of permafrost ecology in the arctic regions threatens the release of stored ancient greenhouse gas, risking a potential acceleration of global warming to catastrophic effects. The cooperation of digital sensing and robotics surpasses human capability to create a relationship between large herding herbivores and the grassland tundra landscape in order to help stabilize and reestablish the Siberian permafrost.