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Similarly it may involve optimising the use of resources whereby the UAV locates the person(s) and then a manned flight or ground units effect the actual rescue. Depending on the circumstances that may include separation of airspace to reduce the risk of collisions between manned and unmanned aircraft. One of the key challenges is to develop a command, control and coordination system or concept of operations which will allow the integration of UAVs into a search and rescue mission.

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In any event, I’m excited to be collaborating with Timothy on this challenge and will be share updates on iRevolution on how all this pans out. So one scenario for the UAV challenge would be for competitors to upload their imagery/videos to MicroMappers and have digital volunteers look through this content for clues of our fake missing person. Since then we’ve added video tagging capability. My team and I at QCRI have developed a platform called MicroMappers, which can easily be used to crowdsource the analysis of UAV pictures and videos. The United Nations (OCHA) used MicroMappers in response to Typhoon Yolanda last year to crowdsource the tagging pictures posted on Twitter. This innovative “crowdsearching” approach is also being used to look for Malaysia Flight 370 that went missing several weeks ago. I’d really like to have this crowdsourcing element be an option for the DC Search & Rescue challenge. As noted here, the University of Central Lancashire used crowdsourcing in their UAV Search and Rescue pilot project last summer. So I’ll be meeting up with him next month to take the units back to DC for the competition.Īnother area I’d like to explore for this challenge is the use of crowdsourcing to analyze the aerial imagery & video footage. Euan, who is based in Switzerland, has very kindly offered to share several payloader units for our UAV challenge. Enter my new colleague Euan Ramsay who has been working on a UAV payloader solution for Search and Rescue see the video demo below.

How? If UAVs identify a missing person, then why not provide that person with immediate assistance while waiting for the Search and Rescue team to arrive on site? The UAV could drop a small and light-weight first aid kit, or small water bottle, or even a small walkie talkie. While previous competitions have focused exclusively on the use of drones/UAVs for the “Search” component of the challenge, I want to introduce the option of also engaging in the “Rescue” part. I want to try something new with this challenge.

#Music rescue challenge facebook full

The full set of rules for our challenge are listed here but may change slightly as we get closer to the event. Competitors will use their UAVs to collect imagery of the area and will have 45 minutes after flying to analyze the imagery for clues. We’ll pretend that a person has gone missing by scattering (over a wide area) various clues such as pieces of clothing & personal affects. The rules for the competition are based on the highly successful Search/Rescue challenge organized by my new colleague Chad with the North Texas Drone User Group. The challenge will take place on May 17th near Marshall in Virginia. My colleague Timothy Reuter (of AidDroids fame) kindly invited me to co-organize the Drone/UAV Search and Rescue Challenge for the DC Drone User Group.