[Talk-GB] Use of Drones

[SK53]

Drones are used extensively by wildlife charities. Examples I'm aware of
include:

   - 8 cm imagery of individual nature reserves.
   - Pointclouds of imagery & photogrammetric data of cliffs for vegetation
   surveys.

I would think in a couple of years most larger nature reserves will have
been imaged in this way (not least because OSGB does updates on rather a
long cycle for such places).

Ed Loach has been in touch with a company which flies drone imagery for new
solar farm installations.

Whether drone imagery will be at all widely collected in urban areas is a
different thing.

I would imagine it might be more productive trying to get local authorities
to make imagery available. The UK is well-behind the curve on this compared
to other European countries.

Jerry



On 18 September 2017 at 11:03, Brian Prangle <bprangle at gmail.com> wrote:

> The regulations on the use of drones in the UK are already quite
> restrictive (if, of course, you're a  responsible memeber of society) and
> are imminently to become even more restrictive with licensing and proof of
> competence becoming requirements. I'm pessimistic about being able to make
> use of drones to capture imagery. Does anyone have any experience of using
> drones?
>
> regards
>
> Brian
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