[HOT] UAVs

[Jonas Shorn]

Joseph,

great to see you here and in this context! You know there are opportunities
at the doorstep here :-)

Lets connect when you are back from geneva!


2013/7/18 Heather Leson <hleson at ushahidi.com>

> HI Joseph, I'd be interested in seeing this research from at risk
> assessment angle.
>
> heather
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Joseph Pollack <
> josephrichardpollack at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Hotties,
>>
>> I've been periodically (every 3-6 months or so for 3 year) been posting
>> in crisis mappers and HOT about using UAVs for mapping and other stuff. I'm
>> really happy you guys are now talking about it!
>>
>> I've been looking at low-cost UAVs for a while now, and I think that
>> technology has reached the maturity whereby we can instrument a rig with
>> sensors for a total cost of less than 5 thousand dollars. Which means we
>> can basically start shipping these to wherever VERY cheaply, with a HUGE
>> impact! This is the state of technology TODAY imho.
>>
>> I'm immensely keen to contribute in substance to a white paper, a focus
>> group and so on. And I'm even more keen to start actually fundraising,
>> buying and instrumenting these in my back yard, at the lab or wherever, and
>> to start shipping these to groups that can use them. I know a couple, and
>> I'm sure you guys know of more that could use something like this.
>>
>> Civilian-led high-res imagery for civilian-initiatives : it's the crowd
>> watching over itself - we're already here! Let's make this happen. Kindly
>> consider me a ressource for however you're deciding to run with this. But
>> let's run with this most definitely!
>>
>> Warm Regards,
>>
>> -Joseph.
>>
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