Police, fire, and search-and-rescue teams putting drones to work when minutes matter.
A three-year-old dog slipped out of his collar and ended up stranded on a steep cliff face. Firefighters used a thermal drone to locate and rescue the animal. The long-haired dachshund Bear fell from a cliff at Capel-le-Ferne in Folkestone in the United Kingdom. “Straight away I just had that horrible sick, sinking feeling in…
Two women embrace a police officer after being rescued by a drone from a marsh in Birmingham, England, from above. A thermal drone was used to film the sequence. According to West Midlands Police, the drone’s onboard thermal imaging camera was employed to find the two 23-year-old women in the dark. The video depicts the…
The Washington Post just reported that Chinese drone maker DJI maintains close ties to the Chinese government and received state funding, despite repeated claims to the contrary. DJI, the world’s largest drone manufacturer has always denied that it had received direct funding from the Chinese government. New research and analysis by IPVM, a video surveillance…
On Sunday, a drone pilot was detained in Sweden after flying his unmanned aircraft over the home of King Carl XVI Gustaf. According to police, the man was apprehended near Drottningholm Castle one of Sweden’s Royal Palaces on Sunday afternoon. The drone pilot is accused of breaking the rules that govern the preservation of important…
As the situation became more desperate, the rescuers had to get creative and a sausage attached to drone was used to lure the dog to safety.
Every so often, we come across illegal drone footage. One of our readers pointed us to this drone video of the Cincinnati Bengals game.
Outfitted with thermal cameras, spotlights, loudspeakers, and radio handsets, drones revolutionize search and rescue operations.
Since 2016, the Toronto police drone program used unmanned aircraft successfully to document accident scenes, monitor protests, find missing
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