{"id":4088,"date":"2015-11-04T08:05:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T12:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2015-11-04T08:05:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T12:05:30","slug":"fixed-wing-drones-another-tool-in-forensic-engineering-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/04\/fixed-wing-drones-another-tool-in-forensic-engineering-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixed wing drones – another tool in forensic engineering investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned in earlier blogs, low level aerial photographs taken\u00a0from\u00a0small helicopters –\u00a0rotorcraft drones, <\/em>are invaluable\u00a0in forensic engineering investigation.\u00a0 (Refs 1 to 3)\u00a0 Using a\u00a0small helicopter to take pictures a few 10s of metres above the ground could also be fun\u00a0–\u00a0if it weren`t for the seriousness of the issues in an engineering failure or personal injury accident.<\/p>\n

Google\u00a0‘You Tube Wetthetent7’\u00a0and\u00a0view\u00a0a fun video of scenes on Prince Edward Island taken from a rotorcraft drone fitted with a camera.\u00a0 The potential for serious forensic photography with these mini aircraft is obvious.<\/p>\n

Fixed wing drones<\/strong> – aircraft drones<\/em>, are also valuable in forensic work.\u00a0 I learned about these earlier this year.\u00a0 Servant Dunbrack McKenzie MacDonald, (SDMM), Halifax, a land surveying and engineering firm own one.\u00a0 They\u00a0demonstrated it’s uses to me.<\/p>\n

Where\u00a0rotorcraft drones\u00a0hover over a site<\/em> taking\u00a0low level, aerial photographs,\u00a0fixed wing drones fly across the site<\/em> taking low level photographs.\u00a0 They do much the same as the aircraft flying1,000s\u00a0of metres above the ground taking the\u00a0aerial photographs relied on by civil engineers for years.\u00a0 Except the photographs are of what you want, taken on the day you want, from the height and angle you want, and more detailed and cheaper.<\/p>\n

SDMM are using fixed wing drones to map open pit mines.\u00a0 The low level aerial photographs can also be used\u00a0to make topographic and infrastructure\u00a0maps – maps of the built environment and the ground we walk on.<\/p>\n

I haven’t used fixed wing drones yet.\u00a0 I will when I see that it will help me determine the cause of an engineering failure or a personal injury accident.<\/p>\n

References<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. A picture is worth\u00a0a 1,000 words, possibly many 1,000s in forensic engineering with a new aerial photographic technique.<\/em>\u00a0 Posted January 15, 2014<\/li>\n
  2. New forensic aerial photographic method proving extremely valuable.\u00a0<\/em> Posted January 30, 2015<\/li>\n
  3. Forensic photography – the expertise available in eastern Canada.<\/em>\u00a0 Posted February 26, 2015<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    As I mentioned in earlier blogs, low level aerial photographs taken\u00a0from\u00a0small helicopters –\u00a0rotorcraft drones, are invaluable\u00a0in forensic engineering investigation.\u00a0 (Refs 1 to 3)\u00a0 Using a\u00a0small helicopter to take pictures a few 10s of metres above the ground could also be … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4155,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions\/4155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}