Tonga – Drones Play Key Role in Cyclone Gita Disaster Recovery
A company from Brisbane, Australia, at the cutting-edge of drone technology is leading the way in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for disaster recovery in the wake of Cyclone…
Drones
Drones in flood monitoring and flood mapping – how drones are used for flood protection, disaster and recovery.
Mangrove-planting drones on a mission to restore Myanmar delta
Drones could plant trees 10 times faster and cut costs by half, writes Thin Lei Win for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. BANGKOK, Aug 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Fast-dwindling mangroves…
Tanzania – Drones Help Communities Map Flood Risk in Dar Es Salaam Slums
With almost 70 percent of its inhabitants living in informal settlements, Dar es Salaam is highly vulnerable to flooding, but drones can help communities map the flood risk, reports Kizito…
Using Drones to Assess Damage in Vanuatu After Cyclone Pam, 2015
The third in our series of cases studies in the use of drones in disaster risk reduction and recovery looks at how drones were used to carry out disaster damage…
Using Drones to Locate Displaced Landmines After 2014 Bosnia Floods
The second of our series of cases studies in the use of drones in flood mapping and flood disaster risk reduction and recovery is an overview of how drones were…
Using Drones to Map and Model Flood Risks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
The first in our series of cases studies in the use of drones in flood mapping and flood disaster risk reduction and recovery looks at how drones were used to…
Using Drones For Flood Disaster Risk Reduction, Assessment and Recovery
The presence of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s), or ‘drones’ as they are commonly known, has grown exponentially in a wide variety of fields over the last few years, including in…
Don’t Count on Technology to Save You in a Disaster – Researchers
Technology like drones and smartphones are no substitute for sound infrastructure in delivering aid, reports Megan Rowling for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. BARCELONA, Aug 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Newfound…
Oklahoma – State of Emergency Declared for 9 Counties After to Floods and Storms
A state of emergency for nine counties in Oklahoma was declared on 14 June 2016 after severe floods and storms in the state that began Saturday 11 June, 2016. The…
Armed With Drones, Aid Workers Seek Faster Response to Earthquakes, Floods
KATHMANDU, May 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For weeks after Nepal’s worst earthquake in 80 years, the skies above the Himalayan nation vibrated with military helicopters ferrying relief, airplanes bringing…
Drones to Monitor Floods in Malaysia
Malaysia is to introduce the use of unmanned aircraft systems to monitor the extent of floods and other disasters. Late last year and early this year the country experienced massive…
Jeddah Flood Defences
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, has suffered from disastrous floods twice in the last few years. In 2009 as many as 122 people were killed and the flood disaster was describes as…
Uttarakhand Flood Rescue
Some media reports have stated that the number of dead in the Uttarakhand flood disaster has risen to 1,000, a shocking rise from the 60 reported deaths from the previous…
Drones and Flood Warnings
One of the latest developments in flood warning has come from the surprising source of Saudi Arabia. Although we might not always associate this arid country with floods, it has…
