that same area in a day and get a very accurate map, more accurate than any man could produce working on foot,” Chell says. While much has been written about the
threat drones pose to aviation safety, many people are now coming around to the technology’s potential to improve aviation safety—by taking humans out of the aircraft (see Scott Burgess and Mark Colborn’s article “Unmanned Systems Can Save Lives in High-Risk Manned Operations” in the Summer 2019 issue of ROTOR). Police forces have become some of the
most enthusiastic users of drones. Scarcely a week goes by in the United States that some police agency doesn’t arrest a suspect, locate a missing or injured person, or solve a complex crime without the assistance of a drone. “Out of every 10 stories I review for
possible inclusion in our newsletter, six or seven of them are about drones these days,” says Dan Schwarzbach, executive director/CEO of the Airborne Public Safety Association. “Tere are about 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the country, and more fire departments than that, plus search- and-rescue and other organizations. But historically only about 350 of
them could ever afford manned aircraft. Te distinct advantage of a low-cost aerial platform with access to the national airspace at the low altitudes where we operate is now affordable to almost all public safety agencies through UAS.” In fact, Draganfly was hailed in 2013 for
being the first drone company to produce a UAS that saved a human life. When a Royal Canadian Mounted Police unit in Saskatchewan received a 911 call from a driver whose vehicle had gone off a very remote road and into a deep gully, the injured, dazed driver couldn’t tell operators his location. Faced with a needle-in-the-haystack
search, the Mounties deployed a helicopter equipped with night-vision technology toward the driver’s last known location based on his cell phone GPS data. But after several hours without any progress, they flew a small Draganfly drone equipped with
an infrared camera. Te smaller, more maneuverable drone could fly closer to the ground without risk to its pilot. Rather quickly, the drone’s camera picked up a tiny heat signature, which turned out to be the driver curled up in a ball at the base of a tree.
Researchers used this Draganfly drone to collect evidence that was used to successfully prosecute an incidence of poaching near Alvena, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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