Drones used to assess damage after disasters
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 08:32
in Earth & Climate
Researchers of the University of Twente use a new method to map structural damage after disasters. A remote-controlled drone with a regular high-quality camera takes a large amount of pictures of a building. From this, a 3D model is created, a point cloud from which the researchers can read geometric information. The drone can be employed after natural disasters or terrorist attacks in order to map damage to important infrastructural places, such as government buildings, hospitals, airports or bridges.