thermal DRONES GmbH - With high-tech for the fauna.
The "thermal DRONES GmbH" helps with artificial intelligence (AI) and drones to protect wildlife on agricultural areas.
Founder Dr. Martin Israel is a specialist in drone-based wildlife rescue. He founded the company in 2020 together with Tobias Dahms as a spin-off of the German Aerospace Center. Together with their team, they work to preserve fawns, hares and ground-nesting birds from death during the harvest of agricultural areas.
Technological Leadership as a Business Model
thermal DRONES is a technological leader in the field of drone-based wildlife search with customers across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Using drones and the developed special software, the company's customers efficiently and reliably track wildlife.
New business areas of the company, which specializes in AI-based drone solutions for monitoring and surveillance of agricultural and open spaces, include, for example, photovoltaic inspection, person search, and hotspot detection.
Thermal Drones offers specialized drone solutions and software for various target groups in the field of wildlife and species conservation.
- Wildlife rescue teams: Organizations and groups that use drones for efficient search and rescue of wildlife, especially fawns.
- Bird protection organizations: Institutions that use thermal imaging drones to protect breeding birds and monitor their habitats.
- Authorities and organizations with security tasks (BOS): Units such as police, fire department and rescue services that use drone technology for search and rescue operations.
- Nature conservation organizations and research institutes: Institutions that use drones for environmental monitoring, research and species conservation projects.
Thermal Drones combines state-of-the-art drone technology with specially developed software and practical training to effectively support the protection of wildlife and their habitats.
thermal DRONES is a self-financed start-up that is currently growing organically by more than 100% per year. The goal of the founders is that in the future, a drone with thermal DRONES algorithms will fly with every agricultural machine.
The team of thermal DRONES consists of experts from various fields who together develop innovative solutions for wildlife and species conservation
- Dr. Martin Israel: Managing Director and Specialist for Computer Vision. He began research and development for fawn rescue in 2010 and received his doctorate on this topic.
- Tobias Dahms: Responsible for management and development. He brings experience as a drone service provider as well as knowledge in agriculture and nature conservation. Stefan Holstein: Responsible for sales and training in southern Germany. As a hunter, he has been active in fawn rescue in the Allgäu region for many years.
- Andreas Kern: Programmer, responsible for app development, internet presence, and setting up the online shop. Mattes Reuter: Management assistant and organizational talent for tasks at the Greifswald site; also deployed as a drone pilot.
- Carolin Vallinga: Responsible for data analysis and wildlife rescue, particularly for preparing and analyzing thermal image data.
- Maria Gaza: Responsible for financial accounting.
- Nikolas Metwli: Part of the software development team.
- Tanja Kern: Responsible for shipping logistics and organizing events.
This interdisciplinary team combines expertise and passion to advance the protection of wildlife through the use of modern drone technology.
