If you were designing a drone to help firefighters what features would you like to have?
Some ideas
Light to carry
long battery life
Remote optical camera
Remote Infrared sensor
UHF radio repeater
Having a UHF repeater would be handy as the operator could send it up to clear hills and valleys etc
Tau.Neutrino said:
If you were designing a drone to help firefighters what features would you like to have?
Some ideas
Light to carry
long battery life
Remote optical camera
Remote Infrared sensor
UHF radio repeaterHaving a UHF repeater would be handy as the operator could send it up to clear hills and valleys etc
Temperature, humidity, air pressure and wind direction sensors
which could all be sent as data from a high vantage point.
Tau.Neutrino said:
If you were designing a drone to help firefighters what features would you like to have?
Some ideas
Light to carry
long battery life
Remote optical camera
Remote Infrared sensor
UHF radio repeaterHaving a UHF repeater would be handy as the operator could send it up to clear hills and valleys etc
> long battery life
It just occurred to me. Batteries are heavy and therefore unsuitable for long flying drones.
You want drones powered by combustion of liquid fuel.
Or nuclear powered drones. Just joking, you want liquid fuel powered drones.
What is this drone helping with?
What is it helping them to do?
party_pants said:
What is this drone helping with?
What is it helping them to do?
You Sir will be first against the wall…
party_pants said:
What is this drone helping with?
What is it helping them to do?
the drone has an inbuilt radio UHF repeater
so it can help with communication if hills or valleys are involved as the drone can rise above them, and still have a line of communication with the operator on the ground
if the smoke gets bad they can send the drone up and get a 360 degree better view of things around the place and give a good infrared map of the fire providing possible retreat paths
It could also have light beacon if necessary
It could also send data to a remote radio receiver.
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
What is this drone helping with?
What is it helping them to do?
You Sir will be first against the wall…
I mean is it forcarryining stuff, is it for recon, is it for actually fighting the fire directly?
Tau.Neutrino said:
party_pants said:
What is this drone helping with?
What is it helping them to do?
the drone has an inbuilt radio UHF repeater
so it can help with communication if hills or valleys are involved as the drone can rise above them, and still have a line of communication with the operator on the ground
if the smoke gets bad they can send the drone up and get a 360 degree better view of things around the place and give a good infrared map of the fire providing possible retreat paths
It could also have light beacon if necessary
It could also send data to a remote radio receiver.
It could help save lives.
Probably already been done around the world somewhere.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
What is this drone helping with?
What is it helping them to do?
You Sir will be first against the wall…
I mean is it forcarryining stuff, is it for recon, is it for actually fighting the fire directly?
You’d best direct these comments to CN as i have no frigging idea what a fleet of drones could do in fighting a bushfire.
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:You Sir will be first against the wall…
I mean is it forcarryining stuff, is it for recon, is it for actually fighting the fire directly?
You’d best direct these comments to CN as i have no frigging idea what a fleet of drones could do in fighting a bushfire.
Communication drones that can rise above trees hills and valleys etc
UHF is line of sight
Tau.Neutrino said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:I mean is it forcarryining stuff, is it for recon, is it for actually fighting the fire directly?
You’d best direct these comments to CN as i have no frigging idea what a fleet of drones could do in fighting a bushfire.
Communication drones that can rise above trees hills and valleys etc
UHF is line of sight
I imagine satellites get a good look in on tracking fires and predicting their spread.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Witty Rejoinder said:You’d best direct these comments to CN as i have no frigging idea what a fleet of drones could do in fighting a bushfire.
Communication drones that can rise above trees hills and valleys etc
UHF is line of sight
I imagine satellites get a good look in on tracking fires and predicting their spread.
Not really, they don’t fly overhead often enough. Satellites capable of doing this only fly overhead about twice a day.
The book “Space mission analysis and design (SMAD)” looks into this in detail and comes to the conclusion that a fleet of 20 satellites would be needed for finding and tracking bushfires. And that’s never been approved.
Tau.Neutrino said:
If you were designing a drone to help firefighters what features would you like to have?
Some ideas
Light to carry
long battery life
Remote optical camera
Remote Infrared sensor
UHF radio repeaterHaving a UHF repeater would be handy as the operator could send it up to clear hills and valleys etc
Morning all.
We use our drone to see the fire in inaccessible terrain. This allows us to plan a method of attack.
The repeater would be a good thing buy maybe two drones would be better. A fairly stationary repeater & a mobile spotting drone.
DJI already make a very suitable drone for assisting in fire fighting operations, the Mavic 2 Enterprise
Integrated Radiometric FLIR® Thermal Sensor -
- Adjustable Parameters for Emissivity & Reflective Surfaces
- Multiple Display Modes: FLIR MSX™, Infrared & Visible
M2E Spotlight -
- Direct lost persons with greater ease using a dual spotlight that enhances your vision in low-light areas.
It’s also got a stroke beacon to make it easier for people on the ground to find it, and a loudspeaker unit so people on the ground can hear instructions. The spotlight, beacon, and loudspeaker can only be fitted one at a time though.