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Gabriel Villena Adiego (Industrial Technical Engineer, Mechanical Engineering) is immersed in the construction of his quadcopter with environmental sensors with the intention that they can be useful in the environmental field, to enter this world he explains in this post the origin of drones, their possibilities from an environmental point of view as well as their limitations due to their regulation.
.- According to EASA (Spanish Aviation Safety Agency), UAVs (English acronym for unmanned aerial vehicle) or more popularly known as drones, are only devices for commercial use, the rest of them being aircraft models or aircraft piloted by remote control.
At the beginning of their days, they were developed for military purposes, like many other great advances in our civilization, these devices were conceived in order to reduce casualties in flights over hostile territory, but for some years now these “flying robots” have been applied to other, less belligerent purposes, including the taking of images or reports of events or cities from an artistic point of view, probably the purpose best known for the dissemination it is receiving in the media.
In addition to this application, new uses are being discovered every day, since as sensor technologies and imaging cameras advance, new applications are found, and from the point of view of Environmental Ideas, they are: the prevention of forest fires or the detection of hot spots in electrical installations using thermographic cameras that allow the detection of heat sources; extinguishing fires or the study of water stress in plantations as well as damage by pests, through the use of cameras multispectral that allow us to contrast the different shades of the vegetation and thus locate areas affected by these ills; topographic surveys, study of the tree mass, etc.
Its popularization has forced its regulation to begin by the Ministry of Public Works and EASA, since the use of model aircraft for commercial purposes is prohibited, requiring authorization from EASA, and until the new specific regulations governing the use of this type of equipment are approved, EASA cannot issue such authorizations because it has no legal basis for doing so. Therefore, using drones to carry out this type of work for professional or commercial purposes without authorization is illegal and is subject to the imposition of corresponding sanctions.
We strongly recommend that people interested in this field watch the video at the following link to get an idea of the research being carried out in this field and to see the possibilities that these teams have TED quadcopters and the following own video
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