Let’s face facts: Drones are here…to stay. Once you wash away your paranoia about them, they’re actually pretty rad. They can be used for many things outside of just taking videos and putting them on YouTube. They’re a new resource and that can be fascinating.
Check out the new IRIS+ drone by 3D Robotics:
The video shows off the impressive tech of the IRIS+, but I want to show what else it could be possible to use it for.
FILMMAKING
Obviously, when you hook a camera up to a drone, you can make videos, but it can be used in real filmmaking for indie directors. Do you remember those sweeping shots in the Lord of the Rings trilogy from above the characters? Those were taken from helicopters with a big rig attached to it.
If you’re on a shoestring budget, you can’t afford to pay for a helicopter to track your characters, or to film original location establishing shots from the air. That’s why drones are awesome. You can get the shots you want for cheap and not have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to rent a helicopter.
HUNTING/ANTI-POACHING
I’m not much of a hunter — I admit that even holding raw chicken is gross — but drones can be used by hunters to scope out the territory. Instead of sitting in one area for hours and waiting to see a deer, you could have your drone survey the area so you know where all the potential game is.
However, if hunting isn’t your game, and you’re more of an activist, you can use drones to find poachers of exotic animals are that’re rampant all over the world. You can use the drones to spot them before they kill a rhino or an elephant to warn the authorities.
SPORTS
As you saw in the video above, the drone can follow you around. This would be fun if you’re skiing, surfing, recording your own softball game, or whatever other related activity you’d want to use the drone for.
RESEARCH
Helicopters are loud machines. Drones are much quieter. If you want to research herds of animals in the wild, exotic birds that are hard to see from the ground, or whatever else you can think of observing from the air, a drone would allow you to get close, get fantastic footage, and not put yourself into unnecessary danger like having a Hippopotamus charging toward your safari truck.
Besides just the wild, you can use your drone to record dangerous areas that a human wouldn’t and couldn’t possibly walk around it. Like, say, a volcano:
Probably best to let a drone fly around over that instead of risk your life trying to get beautiful scenic shots like these.
REAL ESTATE
Having beautiful aerial shots of home that you have listed for your business or as a homeowner really adds so extra flare to putting a house up for sale. It’s difficult to really gauge how a house really looks with a just a few photos from the front and back or it. But having a 360 aerial view of the house that showcases not only the house, but the neighborhood around it will give potential buyers or investors more of an idea what they’re getting.
SEARCH AND RESCUE
One of the more expensive elements of search and rescue missions is filling up a helicopter or a plane and looking around. Many times it comes up with zero results and because of the expenditure, it can lead to people getting further injured or not being found at all. With drones, there could be non-stop missions over disaster areas to find victims. Once a victim is spotted, search and rescue parties can locate them immediately instead of wasting gas and time.
If the location is extreme and the victims need supplies, maybe a drone could be equipped to drop some down and buy them more time until the rescue team arrives. A drone could just be the thing to save your life.
This article provided by SocialUnderground.com
