[HOT] UAVs

[Banick, Robert]

Hi All,

Great to see this getting time in the sun. Everyone in the humanitarian space has been chattering about UAVs for a while now, but no one seems to have figured it out at the non-UN scale. Would love it if the HOT community could be the ones to make that happen.

My two cents: it's my understanding from smarter, more remote sensing oriented disaster responders that the main impediment to using UAVS right now is the painfulness of imagery post-processing, particularly in low / no bandwidth environments. A lot of UAVs are high on flight / camera technology and low on accessible imagery processing software. Clunktron levels of bad. Figuring out the accessibility and speed issues this creates will make the end product much, much more user oriented, which after all is the point.

Best,
Robert


Robert Banick | GIS Coordinator | International Services | Ì American Red Cross<http://www.redcross.org/>

From: Jonas Shorn <shornjonas at googlemail.com<mailto:shornjonas at googlemail.com>>
Date: Thursday, July 18, 2013 3:31 AM
To: Heather Leson <hleson at ushahidi.com<mailto:hleson at ushahidi.com>>
Cc: Joseph Pollack <josephrichardpollack at gmail.com<mailto:josephrichardpollack at gmail.com>>, "hot at openstreetmap.org<mailto:hot at openstreetmap.org>" <hot at openstreetmap.org<mailto:hot at openstreetmap.org>>
Subject: Re: [HOT] UAVs

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<mailto: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<mailto: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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