Drones to fight forest fires

Closely linked to climate change, forest fires are more and more numerous and intense. They require considerable resources to control them like,among others, helicopters. Since helicopters are overloaded and can only be used during daylight, the drone becomes a very interesting complementary tool for carrying out thermography missions following forest fires to validate whether the disaster is definitively extinguished, or not.

"Exo Drone is drone skills and innovation center and a compliant operator, that trains pilots, integrates compliance manuals, distributes and maintains specific drones and ensures the logistics of data capture and efficiency of missions. "

It is in this context that Exo Drone and Thermodynamique have been collaborating with the Société de protection des forêts contre le feu (SOPFEU) since2018 to set up a solution to carry out these thermography missions by integrating into current operations so that the drone can highlight all its assets. After having been able to discuss with all the specialists, we have now developed the procedures and training necessary for safe operations that do not interfere with the practices of forest firefighters.

Today, we are proud to show the full potential of our solution, whichhas met the high expectations of professional firefighters. Thanks to ourdrones’ operators and to an experienced thermographer, the quality of ourrecordings was deemed as being very good.

This first year being dedicated to the validation of our solution. Now, we are looking forward to develop with the AERACCESS R&D department an even better solution to come back in force with even more cutting-edge technology in2021.

Your EXO DRONE / THERMODYNAMIQUE team

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