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Sophie is a PhD student at JCU, finishing in early 2024 (pending actually managing to write her thesis). She picked up embroidery as a hobby during covid lockdowns and still occasionally dabbles

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Use of drones has exploded in recent decades especially in sectors such as mining and agriculture. One of the major benefits of this technology is the production of highly impactful imagery and videography enabling powerful communication with a non-scientific audience. Especially in the realm of environmental science and ecology, drone imagery can quickly communicate how landscapes fit together and how they relate to each other.

My research focuses on what the barriers are to the expanded use of drones among Australian NGO’s, local governments and environmental managers. Results of a survey of 304 environmental workers conducted for my thesis showed that among those organisations that use drones the predominant way they are used is to create advertising and communications material. The second most common way they were used is in the creation of habitat maps. Both were also in the top 3 desired uses for those organisations that don't already use drones as part of their work. Given the importance of drones to environmental science communication in the sector, I wanted to represent through embroidery an example of how that can be achieved.

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Follow along with her research and occasional embroidery projects here: https://twitter.com/Sophiee_Walks

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See below for some examples of drone imagery, both stitched to form a habitat map and singular images of particular habitat types

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Orthomosaic of Blacksoil creek (composite of stitched drone imagery 

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Creek, mangroves and mudflat

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This piece of embroidery represents a stylised habitat map I created using a drone (DJI Phantom 2 Pro) of Blacksoil creek, an estuary located on Cape Cleveland south of Townsville. Featuring, tidal mud flat, creek, saltmarsh and mangroves

Watercolour paints, thread and beads on cotton

Stitches used: back stitch, stem stitch, long/short stitch and French knots

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Mangroves, tidal mudflat, trees and saltmarsh

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Creek, mangroves, saltmarsh and tidal mudflat