Comprehensive List of UAV Drone Uses
(Looking for input / Feedback)
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+ University Science and Technology Studies + Pilot Training + Civil Engineering Design Mapping
+ Kids sporting events
+ Weddings
+ Golf Course
+ Promotional Videos for Products / Services
+ 360 Panoramas
+ Tourism Aerial landmark flyby
+ News
+ Sports Event Coverage
+ Live Event Coverage
+ Concerts
+ Traffic Reporting
+ Aerial cinematography for movies
+ Action/sports
+ Documentary / Expedition
+ Residential Real Estate Marketing
+ Commercial Real Estate Marketing
+ 360 Area Shots
+ Marine Search and Rescue
+ Wildfire
+ Flooding
+ Damage assessment
+ Rapid response / 911
+ Emergency Uses (delivery of equipment e.g. Defribulator)
+ Surf Lifesaving (floation delivery)
+ Fire Detection (e.g. fire towers)
+ Border Patrol / Detection
+ Drug Enforcement
+ Grow-op Detection
+ Forestry and Fire Protection
+ Highway Patrol and Enforcement
+ Bridge Inspection
+ Asset Management
+ Military Uses
+ Aeronautical Engineering and Studies
+ Software Development Studies Courses
+ Industrial Engineering Studies Courses
+ Robotics Studies and Engineering
+ 3D Printing and Technology Studies Courses
+ Carbon capping
+ Renewable energy
+ Environmental Monitoring (dumping)
+ Waterway Monitoring
+ Ice Flow Monitoring
+ Parks (Asset management)
+ Wildlife Conservation
+ Conservation drones
+ Wildlife counts / Mapping of animal population
+ Anti-Poaching
+ Marine Biology – Whale health monitoring
+ Inventory / Asset Management
+ Cost Reduction and Increased Pilot Safety (e.g. FLIR Camera for search and rescue in reduce weather minima)
+ Flyby interesting landmarks
+ Asset monitoring (Bridge maintanace needed?)
+ Photogrammetry Services
+ Measurements (Lidar Services)
+ Digital elevation modeling
+ 3D Feature extraction / Contour generation
+ Thermographic Imaging
+ Lidar Services
+ Maintenance Surveys – Access areas that are not normally reachable.
+ Rooftop Inspections / Surveys (Residential Heat and Leaks)
+ Industrial Roof Inspections (Heat and Leaks)
+ Progress monitoring and reporting
+ Photogrammatry 3d Models
+ Hydro-line / Power-Line Inspection
+ Wind Turbine Inspections
+ Vegetation management
+ NERC ROW monitoring
+ Asset verification
+ Solar Energy Site Assessment
+ Solar Panel Outage Detection
+ Pipeline monitoring
+ Environmental assessment
+ Pit Survey
+ Pest control (eg corn borer)
+ Land Use
+ Crop type
+ Plant count
+ Canopy cover
+ Leaf area index
+ Soil type
+ Soil moisture
+ Growth stage
+ Plant Height
+ Nitrogen deficiencies
+ Plant health
+ Detasseling
+ Yield Monitoring
+ Soil Classification
+ Spectral Imaging
+ Cattle: Drone/UAV FPV Herding
+ Forestry mapping
+ Biomass
+ Forest health
+ Disease detection
+ Environmental mapping
+ Hydrology & Geological Mapping
+ Water management support mapping
+ Wind Farm Mapping
+ Solar power plant mapping
+ Transmission Line mapping
+ Emergency response mapping
+ Disaster Site Monitoring and mapping
+ Hazard Mapping
+ Archaeological Site Mapping
+ Surveying
+ Mining & Resources
+ Tree Mapping
+ Aerials documenting whole site
+ Construction Planning – Identify potential issues.
+ Construction Progress Monitoring
+ Marketing for Construction
+ Surveying
+ Poaching for Fisheries
+ Image Geo-referencing
+ Google map & Google earth mapping
+ Marine Algae bloom and Proliferation Detection
AGRICULTURE
+ Crop type
+ Plant count
+ Canopy cover
+ Leaf area index
+ Soil type
+ Soil moisture
+ Growth stage
+ Plant Height
+ Nitrogen deficiencies
+ Plant health
+ Detasseling
+ Yield Monitoring
WATER
+ Irrigated land mapping
+ Impervious surface mapping
+ Watershed planning
ENVIRONMENT &
CLIMATE
+ Land cover mapping
+ Carbon capping
+ Renewable energy
OIL & GAS
+ Oil spill tracking
+ Pipeline monitoring
+ Environmental assessment
FORESTRY
+ Biomass
+ Forest health
+ Disease detection
UTILITIES
+ Vegetation management
+ NERC ROW monitoring
+ Asset verification
DISASTER RESPONSE
+ Wildfire
+ Flooding
+ Damage assessment
+ Rapid response
My friend owns a Dairy farm. The cows have to be brought in from the field, through a narrow corral to milk. Sometimes it’s too muddy to get the ATV through. So.. Multirotor FPV herding was born!
Thats cool Rich, has he captured that on video… maybe we should send a drone pilot out there to capture that? Whereabouts are you located?
We’re in Turlock, California.. I’ll have to get my camera out there bright and early one morning. Once I’ve got my F550 set up so I can get some decent flight times, I’ll add the gimbal and film the whole thing from the sky.
Maybe you have some idea what’s going wrong..?
I can’t seem to get more than 8 minutes, from a new Turnigy Multistar 10,000mah battery, designed for multirotors.
They’re only 10-20C but at 10Amps, I should have tons of power and flight time, But after a few minutes, NAZA blinks on the low voltage warning and I have to land.
Weird thing is, after the battery rests for half an hour, I have a whole extra volt just magically go back into the battery from thin air! … I can fly for about the same time again, before the low voltage light comes on once more.
I have Lipo alarms that back up the fact this is actually happening, and I test the Voltage on various meters, so I know it’s not a simple bad reading from Naza.
Some times I can fly three times, for 6-8 minutes at a time, on the same charge, just with half hour gaps between, – never all at once.
What do you think that’s all about?
Cheers!
I also spotted a great video about a guy in Canada who was hired by a local municipal park to “teach” the undesirable Canada goose population to stay out of a certain part of a lake by repeatedly lunging the sUAV at them like a predator hawk would (without hurting them of course). As I recall the documented a significant decrease after only a few days or weeks of this activity. I guess you’d call this a “Waterfowl Control” use for drones
Just found the link:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-hires-tech-expert-to-scare-away-geese-at-park-1.1303291