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9 03, 2019

UAVs and Search and Rescue

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Drones for Search and Rescue In September 2018 DJI added a very interesting video to their YouTube channel.  It detailed experiments to measure the different in performance between search and rescue teams with and without drones.The results make for interesting viewing in terms of the drone’s potential as a life saving tool as well as a business asset.“The potential for drones to save lives is clear – at least 160 people have been rescued by drones around the world.” Romeo Durscher, DJI Director of Public Safety Integration2018 was also the year when the RNLI trialled dr [...]

5 01, 2019

How drones are supporting search and rescue

By |January 5th, 2019|Categories: General |Tags: |Comments Off on How drones are supporting search and rescue

It certainly wouldn’t be unusual to open a newspaper or turn on the TV and hear a bad a news story about a drone. From endangering aircraft to dropping drugs into prison, there seems to be no end of coverage about how UAVs are something to be alarmed about. Of course, if you peek behind the headlines, the vast majority of these problems are caused by pilots flying illegally but it’s not surprising that this does cause problems for safe and legal drone pilots as they go about their business. So it is always good when a positive story comes across the DSR news desk and we’re plea [...]