A magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck Ecuador on 16 April 2016, causing over 660 deaths, thousands of injuries and widespread destruction across the north-west part of the country. The most severe damage...
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Drones in Humanitarian Action Case Study No.13: Using drones to inspect post-earthquake road damage in Ecuador
In April 2016, a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck north-west Ecuador, damaging homes, buildings and infrastructure and killing more than 660 people. Thousands of buildings and homes were damaged or...
Drones in Humanitarian Action - Case Study No.10: Using Drones for Disaster Damage Assessments in Vanuatu
Type of system: Indago Multi-copter Microdrones by Lockheed Martin, 960L by Allign, Phantom 2 Vision+ by DJI and Fixed wing model UX-5 by Trimble Deploying agency: World Bank Piloting agency:...
Drones in Humanitarian Action Case Study No.7: Using High-resolution Imagery to Support the Post-earthquake Census in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
The International Organization for Migration, in collaboration with the National Statistics Office of Haiti, conducted a census of areas and populations affected by the 2010 earthquake...
Drones in Humanitarian Action Case Study No.6: Rapid Damage Assessments of Tabarre and Surrounding Communities in Haiti following Hurricane Sandy
The timely availability of aerial imagery of the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, combined with existing open source imagery and census data, allowed analysts to determine with precision where...
Drones in Humanitarian Action Case Study No.8: Using high resolution imagery for Camp Management in Haiti
IOM considers the use of mapping drones a helpful tool to plan shelter units and to monitor the evolution of camps. As a result, IOM has been using drones since 2012 for this purpose. An initial...
Drones in Humanitarian Action Case Study No.5: Testing the Utility of Mapping Drones for Early Recovery in the Philippines
A project employing drones in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan explored how aerial imagery might support recovery and reconstruction activities. Ultimately, the imagery captured by drones became useful in...
Drones in Humanitarian Action Case Study No.9: Using Drone Imagery for real-time information after Typhoon Haiyan in The Philippines
In late 2013, Danoffice IT used its Huginn X1 quadcopter drone during the emergency response to the worst ever Typhoon to hit The Philippines. This initiative — a pilot project conducted in...
Drones in Humanitarian Action Case Study No.4: Deploying Drones for Spatial Modeling of Displaced Landmines in Bosnia Herzegovina
Heavy floods and landslides in Bosnia Herzegovina shifted minefields and explosive remnants of war (ERW) into inhabited areas. The Belgian Royal Military Academy (RMA) team worked with the Bosnia and...
Drones in Humanitarian Action Case Study No.3: Small-scale Mapping with Consumer Drones in Nepal
The aims of the project were to provide drone training to locals around Kathmandu and to demonstrate the potential use of drone imagery in disaster response. To this end, relatively affordable...
Drones in Humanitarian Action Case Study No.2: Using Drones for Medical Payload Delivery in Papua New Guinea
The limited access to healthcare diagnostics due to severe logistical constraints in Papua New Guinea has led Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to be one of the first humanitarian organizations to test...
Drones in Humanitarian Action Case Study No.1: Flood Mapping for Disaster Risk Reduction: Obtaining High-Resolution Imagery to Map and Model Flood Risks in Dar es Salaam
Drones provided high-resolution, up-to-date imagery that was essential to the development of exposure maps and for modeling flood risks in Dar es Salaam. The success of the project has led to further...
The clearance of landmines and other contamination from family and agricultural wells in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka
1 . Executive Summary Between 01 April 2011 and 31 March 2012, a total of 167 wells were successfully cleared by FSD in parallel to ongoing survey, mine clearance and land release in the North of Sri...