Drone mapping, photogrammetry aid recovery in wake of Helene devastation
(Part of a series on the drone community’s response to natural disasters)
Hurricane Helene, the massive and deadly storm that tore through a large swath of the U.S. Southeast in late September, triggered a tremendous response from the drone-flying community, as individual operators and private companies deployed their UAVs to transport much needed supplies and medicines, assess the damage wrought by flooded streams and rivers and even help locate the remains of people who tragically perished in the devastating floods.
Drones come to the rescue after flooding in North Carolina
Despite all predictions to the contrary, western North Carolina was especially hard-hit by Hurricane Helene, whichafter making landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in the Big Bend region of Florida on September 27 tore a path of destruction through Georgia and roared through the southern Appalachian Mountain region as a tropical storm, dumping record-breaking amounts of rainfall across the region…