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This project examined the role of unmanned aerial vehicles in detecting, classifying and mapping infestations of wheel cactus, Opuntia robusta, over large areas of rangelands in outback Australia.

Wheel cactus which is native and endemic to Mexico has now naturalised in South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria. It is often located in terrain which is difficult to access and monitoring and control by unmanned aerial vehicles and remote sensoring offers significant potential.

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