Engineering Matters

#12 The Drone Boom


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No-one knows how many penguins are in the Antarctic, but

thanks to the use of drones this is set to change as scientists are using these
unmanned aerial vehicles to fly over colonies of chinstrap, adelie and gentoos.
And that is not all. Academics at the University of East Anglia are developing
artificial intelligence that can count the birds massively cutting down the
processing time required to determine the numbers. Such techniques have
applications in the built environment too. Drones that can use AI to report
cracks on buildings for example could transform surveying methods.

Just a decade ago unmanned aerial vehicles were the prevail

of the military surveillance teams undertaking reconnaissance missions but
today they can be found in engineering, agriculture, scientific research and
other industries. With growth forecast for construction alone of $11bn in new
drone related jobs worldwide by 2020 we examine how organisations such as Highways
England, Northumbrian Water, Skanska and of course the British Antarctic Survey,
investigate the pros and cons of implementing drone technology on their
networks and in their research.

GUESTS

Norman Ratcliffe, British

Antarctic Survey

Dave Cummins, IRIS Group

Aero

Nicky Mather, Northumbrian

Water

Oliver Viney, Atlantic

Geomatics and The Survey Association

Grahame Grover, UAVE Limited

SUPPORTERS

Pix4D

Topcon

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