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Drones are playing a critical role in Milton and Helene recovery

Mack DeGeurin

October 18, 2024 |

Popular Science |

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Response Location: United States, North Carolina

A variety of organizations are using drones to find missing persons and airdrop supplies in response to Hurricanes Milton and Helene. A Walmart in North Carolina, for example, sends necessary prescriptions and resources to a nearby senior center with a drone from its commercial drone delivery program.

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Slow Steps Through a Minefield

Oleksandr Tartachnyi

August 16, 2024 |

Transitions Online |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Ukraine

MinesEye is prototyping a drone, which has conducted more than a hundred flights, to help Ukrainians identify mines and other potentially dangerous objects deposited in agriculture fields. The drone and its software combine data from aerial photography, magnetometers, and infrared cameras. As of reporting, the system found 18% of the 146 explosive devices planted using its cameras, and adding magnetic scanning data to the analysis, the hit rate rose to 90% of metal-containing projectiles.

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Drones Are Whizzing Lifesaving Supplies Across the 'Last Mile'

Elizabeth Hewitt

July 09, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Rwanda

The Zipline drone system helps deliver life-saving medical supplies, such as blood and antivenom, to areas in the country that are hard to reach due to issues with the terrain, infrastructure or extreme weather. Since launching, Zipline has made more than one million deliveries.

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Indian women take to the skies as drone pilots

Juhi Chaudhary

May 21, 2024 |

Deutsche Welle (DW) |

Video |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: India

About 10,000 women from rural areas in India are training to be agricultural drone pilots as a part of the government-run Drone Didi program. The job provides them with financial independence and greater respect from their communities.

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Kisumu leverages on drone technology to defeat dog-mediated rabies

Kevine Omollo , Winnie Ali

May 11, 2024 |

Lake Region Bulletin |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Kenya, Kisumu

In 2022, Kisumu County partnered with Zipline to deliver anti-rabies medications via drones, in an effort to combat rabies cases from dog bites. In addition to drone medication delivery, the County also works with over 2,800 Community Health Workers to visit residents at their homes and educate them on rabies and treatment. As a result, dog-related rabies deaths dropped to zero in 2023 and recorded cases have significantly decreased.

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Bees vs. drones: How tech is tackling crop pollination

Nita Bhalla, Rina Chandran

April 02, 2024 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Australia, Two Wells

As bee populations decline, farmers who practice covered agriculture are flying drones over their crops — which vibrates the plants' flowers to disperse the pollen — to pollinate them instead.

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Managing predators from the sky

Kylie Mohr

April 01, 2024 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, Montana

Researchers and livestock farmers in Montana are using drones with speakers that play human voices to scare off predators and mitigate conflict between the animals.

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New Tree Tech: Cutting-edge drones give reforestation a helping hand

Claire Asher

July 12, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Using drones to drop seeds is becoming a valid option to increase the scale and efficiency of tree-planting projects, especially in locations that are difficult for humans to reach. Seattle-based Mast Reforestation drops seeds in fire-ravaged areas with massive, custom-designed drones, and Australia’s AirSeed Technologies does so with a team of drones that don’t need human supervisors.

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Drones Are Delivering Medical Supplies To Hard-To-Reach Clinics In Nigeria

Nathaniel Bivan

July 08, 2023 |

HumAngle |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

High-tech drones from the organization Zipline are delivering medical supplies — from vaccinations to blood and other necessary equipment — to hospitals in traditionally hard to reach areas. The drones can make an hour long trip in 10 to 30 minutes, making the delivery service a valuable tool in emergency situations.

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In addressing the health system inequalities, Nigeria has a lot to learn from Malawi and South Africa

Abdulwasiu Mujeeb

June 21, 2023 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Malawi

In an effort to improve inequities in access to healthcare, the local government partnered with forces in Germany to create a drone project that uses artificial intelligence to deliver medical supplies to remote, rural areas, including antibiotics, pregnancy tests and pain medicine. So far this collaboration has carried out 166 supply deliveries.

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