Public safety

Search and Rescue Missions: UAVs provide rescue teams with rapid access to aerial data over extensive areas, enabling faster search efforts to locate missing persons. Fixed-wing UAVs, for instance, can map large areas up to 2.6 times faster than typical quadcopters and cover a flight radius that’s five times greater, making them ideal for remote sites.

Firefighting and Land Management: Aerial data and 3D digital terrain models offer valuable insights for emergency responders monitoring active wildfires, floods, and other risks to surrounding communities. With powerful multispectral sensors, UAVs can easily identify vegetation, assisting in the management of trees and dense vegetation in power line encroachment zones.

Disaster Response: Skypath’s UAVs provide quick field deployment in the wake of disasters such as hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and wildfires. These drones conduct swift damage assessments, providing real-time situational awareness to first responders. The data gathered also serves as a vital resource for comparing before-and-after conditions in high-risk areas.

Border Security and Patrol: Border patrol teams can utilize portable UAVs, specifically designed for tactical use in remote or disconnected environments. With thermal payloads, these UAVs allow agents to efficiently monitor and detect targets across diverse terrains.

Utility and Infrastructure Assessments: Drones can gather current cadastral maps, offering city planners and engineers essential data on key infrastructure that could be affected by severe weather.

Accident and Crime Scene Reconstruction: In the aftermath of an accident, the accuracy of the scene is crucial. UAVs speed up the process of capturing large area photographs while ensuring precise scene reconstructions, making them invaluable for forensic investigations.