Drones for Early Warning Systems

Drones are used in early warning systems. Some of the applications are

• Warning about earthquake
• Hurricane warning
• Tornado warning
• Avalanche warning
• Flood alerts
• Tsunami warning systems
• Forest fire alerting systems
• Drones with IR cameras can warn about forest fires.
• Monitoring of power lines, oil pipelines and water supply systems,

Drones Applications in Emergency Services

Drones can be used to handle emergencies.

• Monitoring earthquake-affected areas.
• Alerting and monitoring firs in big buildings
• Thermal imagery can be used to find survivor or lost people in forests
• Drones can be used to deliver support to places affected by natural calamities

Drones Applications in News Reporting

News agencies have started using drones for various purposes.

• Drones are sued to get pictures
• Record videos and audio of events
• Drones can be used to relay a live event
• Reporting on events such as accidents happenings in remote areas

Delivery Drones

Drones have a huge potential in delivery services.

• Deliveries of postal parcels and letters.
• Picked and delivery of medical prescriptions
• Grocery delivery
• Usage for delivery of hazardous chemicals

Farming and Agriculture Drones

Agriculture drones have a huge scope in the agriculture sector.

• Delivery of seeds, fertiliser, pesticide
• Monitoring of crops
• Protection of crops
• Havering and seed maturity data
• Spraying and sprinkling pesticides and fertilisers
• Land survey, soil mapping and detection of crop nutrient status using chlorophyll imagery

Drones Applications in the Construction and Real Estate

Drones are effective in construction projects.

• Monitor the project
• Security of the site
• Helping in investment and cash flow.
• Tracking the goods movement and delivery
• Monitoring the work and labour
• Collecting pictures and information
• Progress and daily maintenance of big buildings and skyscrapers.
• Can get thermal imagery of building about the energy consumption and
• Can help detect fire

Ranching Drones

Drones are used to lookafter ranches.

• Maintaining ranches and their vegetation, cattle, horse and other animals.
• Monitor the movement of cattle herds and guide them to appropriate locations in the ranch.
• Used to seed pastures (aerial broadcasting of seeds), to monitor their germination and growth and periodically provide data on growth and nutritional status of established mixed pastures.

Police Drones

Police use drones in various countries.

• Can get intelligence on drug movements such as drug-sniffing.
• Drones can be used for high-speed chases of vehicles on highways.
• Monitor streets and neighbourhood to trace any commotion.
• Monitor big events/congregations/large gatherings of people such as political rallies, sports, festivals etc.
• Provide warning on traffic jams and congestions.
• Help in emergencies such as bomb disposable, hostage situation, fire etc.

Library Drones

There is a potential of using drones in libraries

• Borrow and return books from a library.
• Programmed drones can pick/deliver books from the shelves according to their catalogued numbers.

Military and Spy Drones

The defence industry was the first to use drones.

• Drop bombs
• Launching missile from air to destroy ground targets
• Heat-seeking drones are used to destroy military vehicles.
• Deliver medical supply in the war zones.
• Used for patrolling the borders.
• Get intelligence about barracks, military installations, movement of caravans and military regiments
• Taking hyperspectral images and close-up images for more details
• Track landmine that has detonated and maps its location.
• Detect and track movements of insurgents.

Healthcare Drones

Drones have huge potential in the healthcare sector.

• Identify the location of a patient for picking
• Pick and deliver medical supplies to remote areas.
• Picking of patients depending on payload

 Educational Drones

Drones are used for various purposes such as educational, scientific, ecological, geological surveys etc

• Study archaeological sites
• Imagery and thermal images of the site
• Investigating the migratory trends of such as whales in high oceans, bird migration, water currents in oceans
• Forecast monitoring and logging affects
• Mapping the archaeological sites with high accuracy.
• Study geographic locations such as hot geysers, volcanoes, dams, and rivers.
• Study and map natural resources such as mineral prospecting.
• Surveillance the natural reserves and wild animal sanctuaries

Transport Drones

There are some developments going on the travel drones.

• Commuter drones
• Trucking drones
• Track trucks, truck caravans and regulate their movement.