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Overview

Text should include: Overview, purpose, when it happens in the the HPC or IM cycleIn the past decade, an increased number of humanitarian operations have benefited from the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones. With their higher resolution and flexibility, drones offer an effective way to capture aerial imagery for multiple purposes including damage assessment, population displacement, land registering, situation monitoring and disaster preparedness and risk mitigation efforts.  As an example, especially in large-scale sudden onset disaster situations, arranging the aid distribution to the affected area requires knowledge about the road accessibility. Acquiring this information with a land-based assessment is time consuming, while a deployment of a helicopter costs a lot of money. In the meanwhile, the weather conditions may not be ideal for tasking of satellites. In such circumstances, drones may provide a fast and cost-effective method for obtaining the required imagery and knowledge.

Process

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Outputs/Resources

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• OCHA Policy and Studies Series: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Humanitarian Response
• examples of UAV data on HDX?
• Humanitarian UAV Network
• UNICEF Stories
• Humanitarian UAV work in Nepal