The ULISES project, continuity of the OCULTA project funded by Fundación Banco Santaner in 2020, aims to implement CAT tags on sperm whales from drones, thus avoiding dangerous approaches from boats and reducing the stress of the animal to a minimum.

The general objective is to design, test and apply a new technology for the implementation of tags for sperm whales from UAVs, to be accomplished through the following specific objectives: identify a UAV model with the capacity to transport the CAT on the sperm whale, design a structure to transfer the CAT from the UAV to the sperm whale, evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of the system in a controlled test and evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of the system in the field.