Drones, as low-cost flying machines, make great rescue tools. They can look and go places people can’t--or at least can’t go safely--and with infrared cameras, they can sometimes see beyond what human eyes can. In Houston, the World Animal Awareness Society plans to use them to track stray dogs, combining a drone's utility as a mapping device with its rescue abilities.
While the world has never been better documented than it is today, maps are static, which make them inaccurate at best for tracking transient populations. Counting the homeless populations in dense cities like San Francisco, even with hundreds of human volunteers on foot, is an incredibly hard undertaking with imperfect results. Mapping, counting, and tracking stray dogs before the advent of drone technology would have been impossible to the point of laughable, especially in such a vast city as Houston.
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Mmmm , dogs first , then what , us.
ReplyDeleteI need to pay for this, then my rent and food.
ReplyDeleteIts for dogs. That's what they say.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I would have said, too.
But it sure would nice if they knew how many PEOPLE were on the corner of an address they were getting ready to raid.
Or take a few pictures of people they would like in their database.
we are on the slippery slope and sliding so fast that most people don't have a chance to notice te wilting scenery.
Keep cheering.