Pre-disaster planning

Drone-collected data makes it easier and cheaper for organizations to plan future construction and infrastructure projects. With drone data, organizations can identify better places for IDP camps, assess flood risk in a given area, predict and plan for climate change impacts, and more. In this way, drones have just as much utility for “pre-disaster” operations as they do for “post-disaster” operations.

Drones are an “eye in the sky,” a means of gaining a birds-eye view of a given scenario or situation. Humanitarians can use drones to gain a quick, overview idea of what they are responding to, and to make quicker decisions about which areas they should attempt to reach first, and how they might best get there. This type of situational awareness information does not require computationally demanding processing. Using this information simply requires a functioning drone that is capable of instantly outputting images to a connected mobile device, which most modern consumer drones are capable of doing.

After the we wanted to know what the situation was visually, and that was impossible without drones. The ground team was moving, but it was very soggy, very wet, and continuously raining – they weren’t able to reach the site. The drone imagery helped us do that kind of mapping, where we were looking at the before situation and the after situation. We were able to count how many houses were affected, how many bridges were washed away, what roads were cut off.

Search and rescue operations often rely upon aircraft to search for missing people over large geographic areas. Manned aircraft may not always be available and are expensive to operate.

The Power of Drones in Public Safety

When life and property are on the line, there is no bigger force multiplier than our purpose-built, public safety drones and robotic solutions.

 Rapidly deployable.

Drones enable you to gain the advantage and safely mobilize the right resources within minutes of arriving on scene. Our public safety drone bundles are designed to give you everything you need right out of the box and be airborne in less than a minute with a quick-deploy solution.

 Enhanced situational awareness.

The situational awareness provided by drones is unmatched. The live video feed from just a single drone on scene can give Incident Command the information necessary to make critical decisions and position resources.

 Cost-effective, superior aerial advantage.

Drones cost a fraction of what it takes to purchase and maintain manned aircraft and with lower flight ceilings, they provide a superior aerial advantage to any manned aircraft.