Mapping with Drones: CSI as the application
Draganfly UAV, (specifically the X4-ES) the drone that was just inducted into the Smithsonian institute (see article here) is leading the way way in crime scene investigation with their products. They have been responsible for several real life applications of the technology for Search and Rescue. They are on the higher end of the UAV and Drone technology from a performance, quality and ease of use standpoint. This is a product that is easy to operate due to the complex technology they have integrated into its design. This is a real world product that can be used by investigators vs. pilots only.
They have recently been featured in a whitepaper titled “A New Protocol of CSI”. The whitepaper covers the application and integration of the Pix4Dmapper software with the Draganfly UAV models in collision and crime scene investigations. This whitepaper examines the accuracy and time expended on the various methods of mapping / capturing a crime scene and the reliability of the output of the data collected.
RCMP and Pix4D combined with Draganfly UAV’s make for an efficient CSI tool.
What is seemingly the biggest benefit that we see is the reduction of time required to gather the data. The paper describes what could be a day or even days of acquisition being reduced to mere minutes of airtime and a few hours of rendering in the software.
Criminals watch out, this technology is going to make it tougher to get away and easier for the police to capture you. Compound that with the time freed up for other crimes, this may provide the authorities extra time to work on more cases.
