Drones for Impact

Uses of Unmanned Aerial Systems in Transport

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAV)
 Global drone market

• Global commercial drone market estimated at USD 552 million in 2014 and
expected to grow at rate of 16.9% over the forecast period (2014-2022).

Commercial Drone Market Analysis By Product (Fixed Wing, Rotary Blade, Nano, Hybrid), By
Application (Agriculture, Energy, Government, Media & Entertainment) And Segment
Forecasts To 2022. Grand View Research, Jan 2016
 Advantages

• Very high spatial resolution (up to 1cm/px)

• 3D modeling
• Not affected by cloud coverage
• High temporal resolution
• Technology
• Costs
• Innovations
Image Comparisons
3D modeling
 Applications in development projects

• Aerial assessments
• Data collection and analytics
• Mapping
• Early warning systems
• Disaster relief
• Environmental monitoring
• Delivery
Medicine and blood delivery

Zipline, Rwanda
 Applications in transport operations

• Arial progress images and videos

• Time-laps videos
• Quick site familiarization
• Inspection of hazardous/unsafe areas
• Predictive data collection (flooding
estimates, risk of bridge collapse based on
stream and river debris)
 Deeper project insight

• 3D model of site
• Exact measurements
• Daily monitoring of progress
• Generate topographical drawings
• Estimate earthwork quantities
• Quality control inspection
• Detecting illegal land uses and practices
 Applications for transport IEs
• Land rights mapping, cadastral surveys
• Survey listings, sample frames: quick aerial
settlement and population counts and
evaluations
• Mapping migration, urban expansion,
temporary settlements (slums, IDP/refugee
camps)
• Agriculture: crop yield estimations, optimizing
input use, threat mitigation, validation of
treatments, forecasts
 Example Workflow
-3•months
Define problem, parameters, times,
collaborators, check regulations and
Flights
local government partners, ...

Traveling between sites

Flights
Pre-processing images

-2 months -2 weeks + 1 - 15 days

Ensure all Processing and delivery
Permits,
hardware is of the product (imagery)
contracts, ...
ready
 World Bank resources

• 2 drones & geospatial data processing:

– Geospatial Operations Support Team (GOST)

• Resources:
– Satellite State of Play: landscape.satsummit.io
– UAV State of Play: bit.ly/uav4dev