Introduction
Drones are increasing becoming a feature in our skies. Whether for work, or for recreation, we are continuously finding new ways to use drones to work smarter, faster, safer, cheaper and more accurately.
One emerging use for these drones are in the area of search and rescue. In these situations time is a critical factor, if someone is lost, or injured. It is important that they are found and taken to safety. Local emergency services are able to mobilise quickly to conduct ground searches, however these searches are slow and many of the aerial assets used to search larger areas of often not located locally and take time to get on the scene. Equipping local emergency services with appropriate drone technology can be a way of getting these aerial searches started in a much more timely manner.
Through this unit of work you will learn the following
One emerging use for these drones are in the area of search and rescue. In these situations time is a critical factor, if someone is lost, or injured. It is important that they are found and taken to safety. Local emergency services are able to mobilise quickly to conduct ground searches, however these searches are slow and many of the aerial assets used to search larger areas of often not located locally and take time to get on the scene. Equipping local emergency services with appropriate drone technology can be a way of getting these aerial searches started in a much more timely manner.
Through this unit of work you will learn the following
- The safety rules you need to follow when flying drones
- Pre and post-flight safety checks and flight logs
- The flight mechanics of drones
- Calibration of drone systems
- Flying a drone manually using a control, and autonomously using coded paths
- Piloting though a complex course
- Using the processes of orthomosaic mapping and photogrammetry to capture photos of an area and to turn that into a 2D or 3D model
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