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UNOSAT boosts rapid mapping
UNOSAT experts have been testing small automated flying vehicles since 2010 during a research programme aimed at verifying their potential in humanitarian rapid mapping and damage assessment. The first one they decided to acquire is the swinglet CAM.
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"We have already managed to have 10 drones fly in a swarm, Floreano says enthusiastically." The drones used for this experiment were in fact early version of the swinglet platform, which was co-developed by EPFL and our company. SenseFly is continuously innovating thanks to its tight links with top research labs such as the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems.
Agriculture Mapping and Monitoring
The swinglet CAM, manufactured in Switzerland, is capable of flying agricultural fields (or any earth surface) and it takes high-resolution images using small airborne digital cameras. One example Felix Weber of Ag Business and Crop Inc. was able to show included images of farmland that were used to detect marijuana patches within agricultural fields. NIR and NDVI can be calculated from the retrieved images as well.
Robots flock like birds
Swiss scientists at EPFL have taken drone planes called swinglets built by a start-up called senseFly and are programming them to flock like birds.
INNO+SWISS & AGEFI
Strategis Award: 2nd place for senseFly who was already a Venture Kick final beneficiary in 2010!
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