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An animal’s body condition directly influences its survival and reproductive fitness, and therefore also the health of the populations. Monitoring cetaceans’ morphometric measurements are usually obtained from stranded or bycaught individuals. This may bias interpretations on age - and sex-related growth as well as the status of their populations. The purpose of this study was to determine morphometric measurements of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) by using overhead video recordings from commercial UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). From a customised program that implements the UAV parameters (height, gimbal orientation, camera parameters and Field of View), we were able to obtain the length and girth of 7 individual harbour porpoises of known sizes, very similar to the actual measurements and with a maximum error of 7.4%. Using length and girth, enabled determination of a body condition score (BMI Index) for each animal with an overall average error of 0.8 points. The method was then applied on recordings of free-ranging harbour porpoises with calves to determine the body condition. Furthermore the length was used to predict an approximate age, that all corresponded with the calves being born during spring. This is a very cost-effective monitoring method and a valuable complement to the current body assessment methods from bycaught or stranded animals that can aid in monitoring the growth and health of calves and adults on population scales throughout various seasons. An animal’s body condition directly influences its survival and reproductive fitness, and therefore also the health of the populations. Monitoring cetaceans’ morphometric measurements are usually obtained from stranded or bycaught individuals. This may bias interpretations on age - and sex-related growth as well as the status of their populations. The purpose of this study was to determine morphometric measurements of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) by using overhead video recordings from commercial UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). From a customised program that implements the UAV parameters (height, gimbal orientation, camera parameters and Field of View), we were able to obtain the length and girth of 7 individual harbour porpoises of known sizes, very similar to the actual measurements and with a maximum error of 7.4%. Using length and girth, enabled determination of a body condition score (BMI Index) for each animal with an overall average error of 0.8 points. The method was then applied on recordings of free-ranging harbour porpoises with calves to determine the body condition. Furthermore the length was used to predict an approximate age, that all corresponded with the calves being born during spring. This is a very cost-effective monitoring method and a valuable complement to the current body assessment methods from bycaught or stranded animals that can aid in monitoring the growth and health of calves and adults on population scales throughout various seasons.

El objetivo de la presente sistematización es entender cómo el perfil de un diseñador gráfico tomasino, teniendo en cuenta sus competencias profesionales, impacta en la gestión de comunicación al interior de un área dedicada a la banca empresarial en una de las empresas financieras más importantes del país, el Banco Davivienda. Esto a través de diferentes herramientas de recolección de datos y una revisión bibliográfica, teniendo en cuenta la gestión de diseño, la cual es muy importante tanto interna como externamente dentro de una empresa y en este caso en particular el impacto fue muy alto para la mejora de tiempos y calidad de procesos ya que llegó un perfil específico a cubrir las tareas internas de comunicación gráfica. The aim of the present systematizing is to understand how the profile of a Tomasino’s graphical designer, bearing his professional competitions in mind, affects the management of communication to the interior of an area dedicated to the managerial banking of one of the most important financial companies of the country, El Banco Davivienda. This across different tools of compilation of information and a bibliographical review, having in counts the management of design, which is very important so much he hospitalizes like externally inside a company and in this case especially the impact was very high for the improvement of times and process quality since a specific profile managed to cover the internal tasks of graphical communication. Diseñador gráfico http://unidadinvestigacion.usta.edu.co Pregrado