INDUSTRIES, USER GROUPS, OR DATA CONSUMERS
Ministry of Culture and Sports
Government deparments, academic and nonprofit research organizations.
BENEFITS, SPECIAL ANALYSIS OR TECHNIQUES
Near infrared mapping may help detect sites or features not readily shown with RGB photography.
INDUSTRIES, USER GROUPS, OR DATA CONSUMERS
Ministry of Agriculture
Managers of monoculture crops have to be especially vigilant to pest attacks and diseases. Additionally, rapid mapping of prospective land or existing plantations is more easily done with UAV-based mapping. When a country or region is dependent on these important economic crops they can also use UAV mapping to monitor adjoining plantations and communicate with others who might be susceptible to attacks.
BENEFITS, SPECIAL ANALYSIS OR TECHNIQUES
Depending on the disease or pest detected the built-in knowledge of exactly where on the photomosaic or orthophoto map of the plantation the problem exists can allow managers to assess the severity and plan remedial action, which may include destruction of trees within a certain radius without actually visiting the infected location. Many times personnel can then be directed to cut down trees using GPS locatiors, without having experts along to make a final evaluation, Once an offending pest or disease has been subjected to a remediation plan, success can be monitored by closely spaced flights as little additional expense.
INDUSTRIES, USER GROUPS, OR DATA CONSUMERS
Ministry of Agriculture
Detect crop health, readiness for harvest, evaluate damage from various sources/e ects such as drought, ooding, insect and mammal pests, fungus.
BENEFITS, SPECIAL ANALYSIS OR TECHNIQUES
Using near infrared or other wavelengths, detect heat and other stress long before it is detectable at visible wavelengths; certain crops such as grapes used for winemaking have been shown to bene t from use of land-based infrared measurements to detect ideal time for harvest. Grapes for wine and similar crops have a high economic potential from the use of UAV with appropriate detectors for color/near infrared (CIR) or all infrared or other spectral monitoring.
INDUSTRIES, USER GROUPS, OR DATA CONSUMERS
Ministry of Environment, Energy & Climate Change
Environmental scientists, biologists, zoologists, botanists, animal conservation groups, government departments for wildlife and habitat protection, private and public wildlife management organizations.
BENEFITS, SPECIAL ANALYSIS OR TECHNIQUES
Studying migration, territroial studies of fauna and flora ecosystems, monitoring endangered species, bird nest monitoring, environmental assessment and detecting habitat stress. UAV is ideal for monitoring in focused areas for studies with a temporal aspect.
Post-disaster mapping of focus areas for assistance and remediation following earthquakes, hurricanesm floods and other natural or manmade events;
Post-storm assessment of power lines and other utilities to perform triage to determine location for the first-responder repair teams;Post-disaster mapping for financial cost assesment
INDUSTRIES, USER GROUPS, OR DATA CONSUMERS
Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection
Utilities, road, highway and transportation agencies, emergency food, water and shelter distribution, hazard and debris removal planning, emergency construction dispatch, government departments involved in remediation and reconstruction including environmental remediation, insurance underwriters.
BENEFITS, SPECIAL ANALYSIS OR TECHNIQUES
Better information, often obtained under conditions that would be impossible for other technologies, can improve quality of life for those a ected and reduce negative economic imapct of the disaster. Emergency management benefits from near on-demand mapping updates.
INDUSTRIES, USER GROUPS, OR DATA CONSUMERS
Ministry Of Public Order And Citizen Protection
Emergency management rescue operations, evacuation routing, hazard notification.
BENEFITS, SPECIAL ANALYSIS OR TECHNIQUES
Spot checking of areas known to be of interest and updating in near real-time, short period visitation to get updates on progress of fire, food or to monitor evacuation routes for traffic management.
INDUSTRIES, USER GROUPS, OR DATA CONSUMERS
Ministry of Environment, Energy & Climate Change,
Ministry of Finance, Ministry of DevelopmentMining and gravel companies, dredging companies, safety and environmental monitoring agencies, economic analysis of production, surface mine operations.
BENEFITS, SPECIAL ANALYSIS OR TECHNIQUES
Updates to ood maps and other types of baseline maps, when changes become apparent at ground level can be quickly mapped with UAV. This type of mapping is also useful as a baseline for emergency response services of government and companies such as utilities, food delivery, services, etc.
INDUSTRIES, USER GROUPS, OR DATA CONSUMERS
Ministry of Environment, Energy & Climate Change, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Development
Mining and gravel companies, dredging companies, safety and environmental monitoring agencies, economic analysis of production, surface mine operations
BENEFITS, SPECIAL ANALYSIS OR TECHNIQUES
Monitoring and mapping of headwalls, tailings and other areas disposed to subsidence or collapse and slope and wall failures. Data from such activities can help with prediction of hazardous events so that measures can be taken to prevent such failures or to avoid exposing personnel to danger. Mining monitoring can be on a closely spaced schedule that by far outperforms other technologies. When particularly troublesome areas are noted, focused aerial mapping can be done at an even shorter spacing between ights.
INDUSTRIES, USER GROUPS, OR DATA CONSUMERS
Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Development, Ministry of Environment, Energy & Climate Change
Business involved in exploration of natural resources; government agencies involved in preservation or leasing/sale of lands.
BENEFITS, SPECIAL ANALYSIS OR TECHNIQUES
Low mobilization times and low operating costs mean far broader and deeper assessment of yield potential before making lease or purchase investments. For government, early and more complete information means better planning to avoid development conflict and management of infrastructure development and population movement
INDUSTRIES, USER GROUPS, OR DATA CONSUMERS
Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Development,
Tax assessment, agriculture, soil types, land use, transportation, and infrastructure inventory.
BENEFITS, SPECIAL ANALYSIS OR TECHNIQUES
Low mobilization and processing time means not having to wait until the ideal time for conventional photogrammetry. Because of its much lower operating and data processing costs, UAV can be used to do updates of areas within the extents that UAVs can easily map where it was previously cost-prohibitive with other technologies. This improves currency of mapped information. Due to the high cost of conventional mapping projects, updates of the entire area may be spaced years or even decades apart