Flying into the hurricane: A case study of UAV use in damage assessment during the 2017 hurricanes in Texas and Florida.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones have been used by disaster relief organizations in the United States since 2005. However, their place in the disaster response ecosystem-the standardization, utility, ethical, and legal challenges of drone use-remains largely unstudied. This case series desc...
Main Authors: | Faine Greenwood, Erica L Nelson, P Gregg Greenough |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227808 |
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