Atlas-V

Natural disasters and drones have become a very popular topic, one key example being the earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia that shook the globe. The deployment of drones in this disaster featured in international headlines. Nearly every week another natural disaster somewhere in the world makes another headline. Natural disasters seem to occur particularly on the Pacific Rim’s geologically active “Ring of Fire”. Estimates of 2018 costs of natural disasters amount to $155billion.

As we speak more are recorded and more are projected. Climate change is blamed for much of this. Disaster relief efforts worldwide are making use of drones. This is especially true in regions lacking advanced infrastructure.

SAR missions generally seek to rescue humans or other warm blooded life forms. Thermal cameras are ideal for this as body heat naturally makes humans stand out from plant life, making them easy to spot.
Almost all commercial drones come equipped with GPS, allowing the pilot to offer rescue teams the exact GPS coordinates of the subjects once they have been spotted. With the live view feature of any search and rescue drone, the pilot can also guide rescue crews to their location.
Rescue drones are designed to provide cost effective, real time data and imaging, day or night, in challenging conditions and without risk to personnel.
Aiding in the search for missing persons is the infrared (IR) thermal imaging camera that can detect human body heat. This capability greatly increases the ability to find people or objects at night that may be hidden, even during daytime operations.

Safeguard critical infrastructure and monitor sensitive locations with unparalleled precision.
Surveillance is the close observation of a person, group of people, behaviors, activities, infrastructure, building, etc for the purpose of managing, influencing, directing or protecting. There are several different methods of surveillance namely GPS tracking, camera observation, and stake-outs. Additionally, you can use data mining, profiling, and biometric surveillance.
Nextech’s UAVs and sub-systems solve for the constraints with traditional surveillance methods which are typically limited by the stationary nature of handheld or fixed cameras and high costs involved, for example with Helicopter surveillance.

Rural areas tend to have poorer infrastructures and may be more difficult to reach by traditional delivery methods. Delivery by drone can help to overcome this problem, providing occupants of rural areas with deliveries of everything from online shopping orders, to emergency medical supplies. Drones can help to reduce, and eventually replace, the existing complex processes of reaching rural areas, such as cars, boats, and postal workers.

Since the pandemic, Drones have become increasingly popular in the delivery of medical supplies. Some use cases for delivery by drones in the critical supplies category during the pandemic are:

• fly quarantine supplies and medical samples.
• contactless deliveries take humans out of the process to decrease COVID-19’s rate of spreading.
• bringing COVID-19 testing samples to laboratories by drones, helps the quick diagnosis and quarantining of infected citizens.
• used to safely transport medical supplies into hospitals where COVID-19 patients are being treated avoids the danger to the average courier, who might contract the disease and then go on to infect even more people, but delivery drones make this task safe.

Wildlife control is the method by which the position and health of wildlife and game is monitored. Methods typically vary depending on the size of the area and the number of wild animals. Nextech’s Atlas-V drone enables all wildlife control methods by obtaining information regarding the position and condition of the game and land with high-precision data for topographical surveys, multispectral imaging, object tracking using LiDAR sensors and thermal imagers, and advanced security and surveillance of game. 

Powered by real-time data and intelligence providing live feeds and data transmission to central command centers, empowering wildlife and game reserves to make informed decisions and respond swiftly to any threatening situations. 
Nextech’s UAVs provide long-range and high endurance flight missions that solve for missions in the wildlife and game industries, namely anti-poaching operations, species identification, migration tracking, topographical mapping and surveys and habitat management. However with Nextech’s cutting edge technology enabling multiple payload integrations our UAV and UAS solutions can be tailored to your specific operation.

Optimize your crop management with multispectral imaging, NDVI analysis, and precision agriculture techniques.

Managing huge farms with limited manpower requires more advanced use of technologies, including drones. One notable growing industry within the agricultural industry is the rise of cannabis farmers, globally. Many of these farmers use drone technology to bring precision agriculture to their cannabis fields for plant counting and canopy sizing. Therefore, instead of “walking the field” to estimate size, farmers are using drones (and AI) to count and size plants.

Nextech’s intelligent UAV technology generates quantitative analytics to evaluate the varieties, opportunities for surface replanting and monitors sexual maturity and harvest opportunities to prevent the loss of CBD concentration. Another major benefit of using drones in hemp and CBD farming is the ability to monitor plant health. This imagery is also ideal for capturing crops and processing vegetative indices (such as NDVI or VARI). It also allows for counting of crops and identifying water pooling.

Nextech’s Atlas-V is designed with high-precision data allowing for unparalleled topographical surveying and mapping. With its rapid deployment of under 5 minutes and its dual GPS tracking accurate to 5m, the Atlas-V provides exceptional performance in disaster management missions.