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Emergency preparedness
Emergencies can happen anywhere and
at any time. Being prepared and planning
ahead is critical to protecting public safety.
UAVs can assist with risk assessment, map-ping
and planning in advance of an emer-gency,
helping individuals and businesses
understand and manage risks and plan ef-fectively,
which can reduce overall damage
and losses. This also allows for a quicker
rebuild and recovery phase. Not only are
UAVs very accurate, but they are also eas-ily
transportable and rapidly deployable.
This makes the UAV the perfect tool to as-sist
in an emergency. UAVs are not only able
to aide responders by providing images and
videos, but they also can provide a valuable
resource for determining how to actually
approach relief efforts.
Case study
In 2014, the Saskatchewan Research
Council (SRC) worked on a project with
TransGas to obtain aerial imagery from
right-of-ways or pipeline corridors through
agricultural areas north of Saskatoon that
were difficult to access due to the fairly high
density of farm yards and development in
the region. The project also included multi-ple
compressor stations.
Those same images proved useful lat-er
that year in an emergency response
situation when a natural gas leak and corre-sponding
fire occurred at a TransGas stor-age
cavern facility located six kilometres
south of Prud’homme, Sask.
“We had flown that site before the inci-dent,
so we actually used the pre-incident
imagery to aid in the incident response. We
had a good, accurate map in our command
centre in Regina,” said Kent Schoenroth, se-nior
engineer, System Integrity at TransGas.
SASKATCHEWAN RESEARCH COUNCIL
Not only are UAVs
very accurate, but
they are also easily
transportable and
rapidly deployable
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