Drones For Good – Delivering The Future
When reached by phone earlier this week, Yariv Bash was feeling a mixture of excitement and anxiety. For years, he has been at work designing a spaceship that will try…
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Drones For Good – Exploring Mines With Autonomous Drones
Mining has long been known as one of the most dangerous professions in the world. Deep underground, workers can fall victim to sudden cave-ins, floods, or the leak of toxic…
Drones For Good – Planting Seeds From The Sky
Three years ago, Juan Carlos Sesma had a realization. Global warming and climate change seemed to be a mounting problem, with scientific records indicating rising temperatures and sea levels across…
Drones For Good – Car Crash Scene Reconstruction
We’ve all been there, stuck in traffic, inching our way past the scene of a car crash. Damaged vehicles are sprawled out at odd angles. Broken glass, rear view mirrors,…
Drones For Good – Alex Braczkowski, Big Cat Researcher
Alex Braczkowski, a big cat biologist and wildlife cameraman, has come up with an innovative way to study lion populations in Africa. To get accurate data, Braczkowski has been counting not just lions, but…
Drones For Good – Andrew Kuster: Building A New Life
Growing up in rural Missouri, Andrew Kuster learned the value of ingenuity at an early age. “If something broke, we couldn’t just head to the local store and get a…
Drones For Good – The Lost Squadron
During World War II, Allied planes would fly what was known as the Snowball Route. US aircraft would hop across a chain of secret bases in Newfoundland, Greenland, and Iceland…
Drones For Good – The Amazon Rainforest
The Amazon rainforest holds a near-mythic resonance for people around the world. Its lush environs are the epitome of a wild, verdant jungle. For scientists, this region is treasured for…
Drones For Good – Paige Fitzgerald and the Delaware Emergency Management Agency
Over the last few years, public safety agencies have moved from experimenting with small drones to integrating them into their everyday toolkit. Across the globe, police and fire departments, search and rescue…
Drones for Good – Fighting Pollution with The Plastic Tide
In this interview, Peter Kohler, Founder and Director at The Plastic Tide, discusses how they are leveraging the use of drones technology and machine learning to identify plastic pollution over beaches. Peter Kohler…
Drones For Good – Saving Life In The Dark
The victim of a car crash was missing – unconscious in a ditch on a cold, dark night. Officers on the UK’s Lincolnshire police force saved his life recently when…
Drones For Good – Using Drones to Save Entangled Whales
Every fall, pods of enormous humpback whales make their way towards Hawaii, where they can ride out the winter in warm waters. For centuries humans have watched this noble migration…
Drones For Good – AUVSI XCELLENCE Humanitarian Award Highlights
At XPONENTIAL 2018, five organizations that flew drones on critical, life-saving missions were recognized and named winners of the inaugural AUVSI XCELLENCE Humanitarian Award, hosted by the Association for Unmanned…
Drones For Good – Saved by a Drone
During search and rescue operations, every minute counts. Going to Iceland had always been Lukasz’ biggest dream, but little did he know about the adventure that awaited him and his cousin Gabriela…
DJI and UNDP use latest drone technology to protect vulnerable communities
Drones empower communities in the Maldives to better prepare for and respond to disasters The Maldives, one of the most fragile and dispersed nations on earth, faces unique threats from…