At today's AUVSI XPONENTIAL Virtual Conference, the Airborne International Response Team (AIRT) and DRONERESPONDERS is making an announcement that could save lives all over the world. Emergency response remote pilots, their equipment, and public safety UAS programs will be listed together in a geo-referenced database to enable disaster management teams to find the resources … [Read more...] about AIRT Building World’s Largest Air Force of Emergency Response Remote Pilots and Drones
Drones For Good
COVID Humanitarian UAS Operation (CHURP) Completes Delivery Testing
The COVID-19 Humanitarian UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) Response Partnership (CHURP) has announced the successful finish of their current test phase, which included drone delivery of COVID testing kits. CHURP is a partnership formed over nine months ago by Emergent 121 Consulting and Akin Gump, LLP. It's a timely project to design and test extended drone operations - and to … [Read more...] about COVID Humanitarian UAS Operation (CHURP) Completes Delivery Testing
More than 500 Lives Saved by Drones: DJI Continues Mapping Project
The latest rescue took place last month, when sherriff's deputies found a missing 93-year-old woman in a dark field in Missouri - using a DJI drone with a thermal imaging camera. That brings the total to more than 500 lives saved by drones, according to DJI's project counting the lives that would have been lost without direct intervention of drone technology. DJI began the … [Read more...] about More than 500 Lives Saved by Drones: DJI Continues Mapping Project
Skydio for First Responders: A Round Table Discussion on Autonomous Drones in the Field [WEBINAR]
Join a roundtable discussion about Skydio drones for first responders. Skydio's Public Safety team and a panel of first responder agencies will present a free webinar on Wednesday, Dec 16, 2020 at 1:00 PM | Eastern Time (US & Canada). Register here to attend. Made in the U.S.A., Skydio's X2™ series autonomous drones fill a gap in the market for first responder … [Read more...] about Skydio for First Responders: A Round Table Discussion on Autonomous Drones in the Field [WEBINAR]
Wildfire Meteorology: Drones Provide a Better, Cheaper Way to Understand Fire Risk
Drones becoming a useful tool in wildfire meteorology, the effort to understand weather that leads to fire risk. By DRONELIFE Staff Writer Jim Magill As wildfires continue to rage across vast swaths of the western United States, researchers are developing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to understand the weather systems that lead to the fires’ ignition and … [Read more...] about Wildfire Meteorology: Drones Provide a Better, Cheaper Way to Understand Fire Risk
