Official video of DSAR (Drone Search & Rescue)
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BTW it also shows a use case for the speaker on the Mavic 2 Enterprise. He could have told her to stay in place, help was on the way or to follow the drone to safety.
That's why I'll be getting a Dual when they offer it bundled with the smart controller
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Yes - the speaker has been a very welcome accessory. Much more so than we (and many other) originally thought it might be. The fact that you an either broadcast a pre-recorded message from your audio library or send a live message has turned out to be a great feature.
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We are still holding on some firmware issues to get the Smart Controller compatible with the Duals. We have Mavic 2 Pro bundled with smart controllers arriving in a couple days (as well as a shipment of smart controllers), but the current smart controller compatibility is only with the Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom. We expect that to be adjusted fairly soon.
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Roger that...we are hoping it can happen soon. We need 2 things to happen - first we need the controller to be made compatible with the M2E Dual and then DJI need to ship that as a bundle.
If you recall, DJI originally introduced the smart controller as more of an Enterprise product with a focus on public safety being able to quickly deploy aircraft upon arriving on scene...but now the controller does not work with the aircraft public safety has purchased. We feel strong this will be corrected soon....thanks!
Also, if you want to send a PM with your contact info, we will keep you in the loop as things develop.
JSKCKNIT
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Great video, thanks for posting! I'm glad they were able to locate the kid.
Here's another from a documentary on the Kilauea eruption last year.
Kīlauea: Hawaiʻi on Fire | NOVA
Skip to about 35:00 mark. A resident was trapped by approaching lava and used Morse Code to signal a drone for help.
Here's another from a documentary on the Kilauea eruption last year.
Kīlauea: Hawaiʻi on Fire | NOVA
Skip to about 35:00 mark. A resident was trapped by approaching lava and used Morse Code to signal a drone for help.
AMann
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Cool! Now if the drone was fitted like these, they could have dropped a PLB (satellite/radio beacon), blanket, strobe, first aide and even food to her:
The Little Ripper Life Saver | Search & Rescue Operations
Great job. These kinds of things need to be publicized so the public can see the benefits but all they get are the idiots who fly dangerously
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I am repeating an edited version of my private email here in hopes others will benefit.
I have been in touch with our County's head of paid and volunteer Rescue Squad members and with our County Sheriff and his two drone pilot deputies and we are all interested in gathering volunteers and training to make this capability happen for us on a regional level. I have forwarded this excellent video to them as well as the County Administrator and the members of the Board of Supervisors, stating my intentions of forming a DSAR regional team and asking for their support. I look forward to seeing your post-op brief regarding the March 30 Alabama class, and I am also looking forward to hosting your visit this summer if you can come.
As a related aside, I witnessed two licensed pilots flying a drone along a grid that they set up after viewing the largely open area from 400’ AGL. The grids were parallel and pictures were taken at specific intervals along each path so the pictures would overlap along the path and across the adjacent grids. The information was to be analyzed by an architect’s software program to give 3-D topographical information of the terrain. The camera was 90 degrees straight down on the first run and 45 degrees on the second run. I’m not privy to the final result but it was very interesting to watch. Pretty amazing stuff that might be similar to what you are doing!
Thank you for doing this. I hope that we can organize, train, and be a part of your DSAR national organization.
I have been in touch with our County's head of paid and volunteer Rescue Squad members and with our County Sheriff and his two drone pilot deputies and we are all interested in gathering volunteers and training to make this capability happen for us on a regional level. I have forwarded this excellent video to them as well as the County Administrator and the members of the Board of Supervisors, stating my intentions of forming a DSAR regional team and asking for their support. I look forward to seeing your post-op brief regarding the March 30 Alabama class, and I am also looking forward to hosting your visit this summer if you can come.
As a related aside, I witnessed two licensed pilots flying a drone along a grid that they set up after viewing the largely open area from 400’ AGL. The grids were parallel and pictures were taken at specific intervals along each path so the pictures would overlap along the path and across the adjacent grids. The information was to be analyzed by an architect’s software program to give 3-D topographical information of the terrain. The camera was 90 degrees straight down on the first run and 45 degrees on the second run. I’m not privy to the final result but it was very interesting to watch. Pretty amazing stuff that might be similar to what you are doing!
Thank you for doing this. I hope that we can organize, train, and be a part of your DSAR national organization.
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The guys doing the mapping may have been using Agisoft’s photoscan program, or the professional version of DroneDeploy to make the map- which takes a hefty computer and time to process! There was a similar project done at Amboy Crater in the Mojave Desert to find a missing couple that went out on a hike in summer and were caught out in 113 deg F heat (I know...)
The husband was unconscious and the wife was disoriented and out of water when she called for help. It was too hot to deploy search & rescue dogs to find them (the area is also covered by a black volcanic lava field) so the teams deployed drones to search for them. As thermal cameras would have been useless for the search due to the high ground temperatures (thermal cams depend on sensing the differences between body and background temp for those who dont know), the teams used live video feeds and also downloaded and viewed the high resolution photographic images from the drone’s camera to try to locate the couple. After some time, they even had to call off the ground searchers duento the heat risk, and continued to fly the drone sorties.
At the conclusion of the search, it was a helicopter crew that finally found the deceased, however the efforts of the drone searches were immeasurable in that they probably helped to focus the search area.
One possible use of UAV SAR drones, particularly those that are finally permitted to fly BLOS in remote areas or over water, are those that can deploy rescue and survival packages mentioned in my earlier post. It’s amazing for how so many diverse ways drones can be used, for good or bad, and hopefully not so much for the latter.
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This would be great to get involved in.
I though of this: I am on call with the local team. I get the call to go out. Darn my batteries aren't charged all the way because they are set to discharge after 3 days/10 days.....
Any ideas?
I though of this: I am on call with the local team. I get the call to go out. Darn my batteries aren't charged all the way because they are set to discharge after 3 days/10 days.....
Any ideas?
AMann
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Buy extras and offset the charge date? Charge half of them every 5 days after the other half?
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