Wednesday, November 18, 2015

We need to expand UAV use in humanitarian aid, not restrict it

We need to expand UAV use in humanitarian aid, not restrict it
When a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal in April 2015, the mountainous East Asian nation was woefully underprepared. Just 5,000 relief workers and rescuers scrambled to assist the nation’s 8.1 million affected people, more than a quarter of Nepal’s population. Thankfully, experts from Ontario, Canada-based GlobalMedic arrived with a fleet of mechanical marvels: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones. Equipped with thermal imaging cameras, these UAVs quickly identified thousands of survivors […]
 


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