Drones For Good

Drones have helped scientists discover mega colonies of penguins – over 750,000 pairs – in protected areas within the Antarctic Peninsula. The journal Nature reviews that a “multi-modal survey” together with floor counts and laptop automated counts of drone imagery, confirmed enormous populations of Adélie penguins within the Danger Islands …

AUVSI XPONENTIAL, the drone commerce present going down in Colorado on the finish of April, has introduced that it is going to be holding the primary ever AUVSI XCELLENCE Humanitarian Awards. The Humanitarian Awards are being launched to acknowledge people or organizations utilizing unmanned methods to avoid wasting lives, enhance well …

Africa is floor zero for using humanitarian drones and medical drone supply – and with revolutionary packages and the event of a humanitarian drone hall, UNICEF’s drone tasks in Malawi have change into a mannequin for the remainder of the world. Matthias Boyen of UNICEF explains that drones resolve crucial …

courtesy Airbus Aerial Following the flooding and harm in Houston and alongside the Texas Gulf Coast, Airbus has began to make the most of its Airbus Aerial drone knowledge providers to assist Hurricane Harvey survivors and main insurance coverage corporations join for assist. Airbus Aerial is the industrial aerial knowledge …

picture Defense.gov The FAA has issued a brief flight restriction (TFR) over the areas hit by Hurricane Harvey.  But the Red Cross unmanned plane response group, organized by skilled drone pictures firm PropellerHeadvertisements, is flying underneath an FAA COA in coordination with the Texas Air Operations Center and Unified Command …

Photo: Sally Chapman/MIT Researchers at MIT have developed a gasoline powered drone with a 5 day flight time.  The glider-like drone is designed to hold a communications payload that might set up a non permanent telecommunications community for catastrophe reduction. The thought of utilizing drones to ascertain non permanent networks …

Drones provide important humanitarian advantages in catastrophe aid, rescue operations, and scientific analysis of every kind.  As the expertise has developed, the makes use of for drones in analysis are regularly increasing.  Now mapping and photogrammetry specialists Pix4D, alongside with French drone producer Parrot, have introduced the winners of their local …

 Dhruv Karthik, a 17 yr previous scholar in Dubai, is the youngest finalist within the historical past of the ‘Drones for Good’ competitors, and he’s going it alone.  Karthik is the one particular person finalist, competing in opposition to groups made up of professors, grad college students, and enterprise startups for …

UAE’s GCAA HQ When you think of Nokia, you think of mobile phones. But the Finnish tech giant is spreading its considerable corporate wings into the drone skies, completing a deal this week with the United Arab Emirates to develop a drone traffic management system over the nation’s airspace. Under …

Hurricane Matthew has hit hard, causing severe damage and flooding in Jamaica, Haiti, and the US.  As disaster response teams work to coordinate relief efforts, some teams will be using drones – an effective new tool in dealing with extreme weather.  Here are 5 ways that drones help us to …