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Drone video filmed Oct. 10 shows damaged homes and toppled trees on Anna Maria Island, Fla., after Hurricane Milton swept through the state. Read more: https://wapo.st/3Np7bzY. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK Via Charla Robertson
Keiran Gisonno's insight:
Its very interesting to see use of drones like this in action, I think from an environmental perspective they can be incredibly useful tools to monitor damage from ecological events
Charla Robertson's curator insight,
October 16, 2024 2:27 PM
This video shows the damage left by Hurricane Milton in Florida. It also highlights the usefulness of drones in disaster relief and rescue efforts.
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Sending teams of tiny drones to explore areas and structures is a staple in sci-fi and research, but the weight and size of sensors and the required processing power have long been a limiting factor
Austin Dent's insight:
I'm not convinced on the practicality side of this, but it does seem like these would be fun to build and fly!
Charla Robertson's comment,
October 17, 2024 7:41 AM
Seems like it would be a fun robotics project or fun science camp activity!
Emily Gomez's comment,
October 17, 2024 1:05 PM
Those are so cute and tiny! Because they are so small, they aren't able to have high quality sensors and cameras attatched, but I'm sure they'd make a great Christmas present!
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Drone video filmed Oct. 10 shows damaged homes and toppled trees on Anna Maria Island, Fla., after Hurricane Milton swept through the state. Read more: https://wapo.st/3Np7bzY. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Charla Robertson's insight:
This video shows the damage left by Hurricane Milton in Florida. It also highlights the usefulness of drones in disaster relief and rescue efforts.
Keiran Gisonno's curator insight,
October 16, 2024 10:20 PM
Its very interesting to see use of drones like this in action, I think from an environmental perspective they can be incredibly useful tools to monitor damage from ecological events
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Drone footage captured the aftermath of a tornado that ripped through a Florida solar farm hours before Hurricane Milton made landfall last week.
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JDrone launches cargo drone service in Japan, using Yamaha FAZER R G2 and DJI Flycart 30 for rural and disaster-relief operations.
Max Morales's insight:
This I found to be an interesting thing they are trying to use more in Japan for delivery purposes from rural areas to natural disasters.
Liano Becerra's comment,
October 15, 2024 10:15 PM
It is amazing that they use drones to help with recovery efforts, especially when Japan receives many earthquakes and the infrastructure is too damaged to move around.
Austin Dent's comment,
October 16, 2024 8:55 PM
This is exactly the direction I want to see cargo drones heading. Bringing delivery drones to market has been a slow process, but disaster recovery has the potential to push through a lot of the bureaucracy and profitability questions that may have slowed development of this type of drone. It will be very interesting to see if the rescue angle has the potential to open up some of the regulations about payload delivery and line of sight flight in the US.
Carolyn Chaput's comment,
October 18, 2024 12:21 AM
This is a great application of drones for helping people. I remember reading that relief efforts in rural Japan are really challenging, particularly in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
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Hawaiian Electric is taking to the skies with drone technology to enhance its wildfire safety strategy. The utility company is using unmanned aerial vehicles
Sophia Hoolihan's comment,
October 16, 2024 12:12 PM
It's smart to use drones for inspecting electric utilities. It allows the inspection to be quicker and less disruptive to residents, and cheaper for the company as more electrical units can be inspected each period.
Eduardo sandoval's comment,
October 18, 2024 3:32 AM
Its a smart and effective choice to bring in drones for wildlife prevention inspections. The drones being utilized to go through hard to reach places will save us lots of time when inspecting.
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To have a healthy ecosystem, we need biodiversity, as it supports all life on Earth, including humans. Without a variety of microorganisms, plants, and animals, we simply can't have a balanced environment. Biodiversity provides ecosystem services such as clean air, freshwater, and flood management, which are crucial to human well-being. It also supports food security, […]
Heather Farlow's insight:
I love seeing new ways that drones are being used in conservation work. Collecting DNA from treetops is something I never would have imagined.
Carolyn Chaput's comment,
October 12, 2024 1:41 PM
This method is still experimental, so it must be exciting for the research team to develop and follow new procedures to safely and efficiently use drones for their data collection.
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The stingrays displaced a similar mass of sand each year to that of the Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt.
Charla Robertson's insight:
I greatly appreciate any application of drones outside of war. This is an excellent example of how drones can be used to study different animals and their habitats. It's not clear if they also used underwater drones to study the stingrays, but it's really cool that they were able to obtain so many different angles and picks of them in their feeding pits.
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Norway is taking further steps to tighten security in its ports as it fears efforts by Russians and others at spying. During the summer, Norwa
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Drone footage shows the world's largest continuous set of dinosaur tracks — known as the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Trackway in Ouray, Colorado.
Eduardo sandoval's comment,
October 11, 2024 3:44 PM
the drone footage looks great with a better view of the dinosaur tracks compared to viewing it on ground level
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Has information regarding the new technology systems being tested out and being invented in order to protect U.S. army and naval bases from being attacked from different types of drones from other countries. This practice has recently been popular because of the Ukrainian and Russian war and tensions in the Middle East.
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The forest floor should be able to make a meal out of this new drone made of almost completely from biodegradable parts.
Natalie Jones's comment,
October 8, 2024 9:07 PM
This is pretty neat! I wonder how much drones contribute to pollution whether its noise or microplastics. Biodegradable is a smart idea for drones...I wonder how well it runs without a normal lithium battery and for how long.
Max Morales's comment,
October 8, 2024 11:09 PM
That is really interesting and I never really thought about how drones might create waste so this is a really good idea for an alternative. Hopefully this idea of a biodegradable drone keeps getting worked on so that new technology advances can come from it.
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Ukraine’s air force said in a statement that air defenses had destroyed 56 of the 87 drones and two missiles over 14 Ukrainian regions, including the capital, Kyiv.
Grant Osterhoudt's insight:
Russia sent 87 drones to attack Ukraine an 56 of them were intercepted. President Zelensky says he will share his victory plan on October 12. He said that he will keep convincing partners that their drones are not enough.
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Pentagon confirms ‘incursions’ of unauthorized drones over Air Force base
Keiran Gisonno's insight:
It becomes more and more frequent that we see cases of drones being used improperly, especially with ease of purchase nowadays. For military installations, this is an incredibly pressing issue; aside from it being difficult to actually track down those responsible for flying, their intents when illegally flying over a military base can be unknown; there's no way at the moment to tell if that person has come to be hostile, a spy for another nation, or just to take pictures, all of which are problematic.
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Hezbollah said the strike was retaliation for two Israeli strikes in Beirut on Thursday that killed 22 people.
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North Korea accused South Korea of flying propaganda-filled drones over Pyongyang and threatened “retaliation,” state media reported Friday.
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Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in response to Israeli strikes in Lebanon.
Natalie Jones's insight:
Drone attack in Israel, shows how drones can be used for war and be very deadly when used with this intent. It's scary how drones can be so destructive.
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UC Davis’ new fire research utilizes drones and ground sensors for early wildfire detection, enhancing firefighter safety and promoting sustainability.
Liano Becerra's insight:
UC Davis professors are working on installing sensors and sensors to detect wildfires before the idea of when there is smoke, there is a fire. Using chemical sensing can help firefighters get to the sense quicker to control a fire before it gets out of control. An example they used to compare the use of chemical sensors is when someone is burning wood in a fireplace you can smell it before visually seeing the fire.
Max Morales's comment,
October 15, 2024 6:45 PM
That is so great that even though it is not entirely widely adapted yet, it shows that drones and technology continue to advance and fill the gaps we have when it comes to alert response times and other monitoring.
Natalie Jones's comment,
October 16, 2024 1:56 PM
this is cool! It would be great if technology like this could be more utilized, it would end up helping first responders and saving a lot of lives. Great use of drones in my opinion.
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The atrocity is sure to escalate an already brutal conflict.
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Shows how Drone teams are increasingly on the front lines in the Ukrainian and Russian War. Not only are drones being used as weapons of war but also to gather information active on the front lines because it was another Drone team that found the executed Drone team which they later brought the information back to the Ukrainian Government and its the Allies.
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During a survey by the National Tropical Botanical Garden drone team, an enigmatic Schiedea was observed in December 2021on steep, rocky cliff faces of the Waiahulu Valley in the Waimea Canyon of Kaua'i. Subsequently, another survey was conducted in March 2022 and, by use of a remotely controlled cutting device suspended below the drone, the first herbarium specimen was collected, as well as a seed collection of an undescribed cliff-dwelling species of Schiedea. Detailed study of the collections and plants grown at the University of California, Irvine greenhouse showed that it had enlarged, somewhat whitish sepals similar to those of cliff-dwelling S. attenuata (the sole species in sect. Leucocalyx), yet differed significantly from all other species in the genus. It also shares with S. attenuata a woody habit, hermaphroditic flowers, coloured nectar and styles 5 to 7 or 8. We describe it here as S. waiahuluensis given the only known localities are on the cliffs of this valley and place it in an enlarged sect. Leucocalyx. With the discovery of this new species, there are 36 species in this Hawaiian endemic genus.
Austin Dent's insight:
Both types of drones used in the discovery and collection are models that we have here at CI!
Esveidy Rodriguez's comment,
October 11, 2024 8:18 PM
This new species highlights how drones can access dangerous environments to collect specimens and seeds that was probably inaccessible. This is a good example of the many possibilities drones gives us.
Heather Farlow's comment,
October 12, 2024 12:42 AM
It is amazing to see how drone technology is evolving and we are now at the point that we can remotely collect new plant samples via drone. I was also thinking that the use of drones in this situation was far less environmentally invasive than other methods that have been used for collection. No foot traffic was created around the new species due to the remotely piloted drone collection, which could be helpful in very vulnerable and sensitive environmental areas.
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The first parsnips to be cultivated with the help of drones and AI will arrive on the shelves of British supermarket Marks & Spencer for the first time before year end.
Max Morales's comment,
October 13, 2024 6:17 PM
I found this article so fascinating and makes me think that the future of farming is going to change a lot if this test crop yields good and large amounts of food. Makes me wonder that if this is thought of as a success what other crop will they try on next.
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MSU drones aid hurricane relief efforts in Georgia, providing real-time data to support FEMA’s Hurricane Helene response and flood modeling.
Jonathan Campos's comment,
October 11, 2024 9:07 PM
It's been very cool to see how drones have been used in different ways involving hurricane Helene and Milton.
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Gov. Moore announces federal funding for drone healthcare deliveries on Eastern Shoreby LORI RAMPANI | FOX45 News Tuesday, Oct 8th 2024Maryland Gov. Wes Moore speaks at a campaign event for Maryland Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate and Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks.
Keiran Gisonno's insight:
I think this is really interesting to see how funding for healthcare via drones. Although it’s unfortunately only 1.7 million which is not much… yet. I really hope that further proof of concept can allow for additional funding to be provided
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Recent graduates of the MIT New Engineering Education Transformation Program worked together remotely from across the globe to design thinking machines to tackle air pollution with autonomous drones.
Sophia Hoolihan's comment,
October 9, 2024 1:38 AM
Using autonomous drones to acquire localized weather data is a very interesting concept. Local air quality information is especially useful in areas where outdoor physical activity/recreation occurs, like parks and hiking trails, and the air quality data displayed in most weather applications does not account for the spatial heterogeneity of most areas.
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Charla Robertson's comment,
October 10, 2024 11:31 PM
I love the idea of drones dropping anything that isn't a bomb, so this is amazing. I would love to see this type of program implemented in any/all remote locations with remote populations, as well as used in disaster relief efforts. I wonder if this will be utilized more by FEMA, especially in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
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