Disaster Response
Natural disasters destroy environments, making it difficult to identify high impact areas in traditional ways. Utilizing drone technology allows for faster data collection and condition assessment.
Reduce response time with real-time data
Aerial imaging is the fastest and safest way to understand the impact of a natural disaster. With real-time data processing, decision makers get a clear picture of conditions so they can make moment-to-moment decisions about where to deploy crews and what supplies they will need for effective response. By streamlining logistics, teams can reduce response time from weeks to days, saving more lives in the process.
Nationwide Coverage & Rapid Response
Natural disasters destroy environments, making it difficult to identify high impact areas in traditional ways. Utilizing drone technology allows for faster data collection and condition assessment without putting people in harm’s way. With drones, we can map acres of wildfire damage and collect hundreds of photos to help identify utility pole damage. The collected data can then be uploaded in real time.
Our team of experienced field technicians is fully equipped for rapid deployment to capture aerial data no matter where disaster strikes. As a national service provider, we’re ready to respond as fast as you are.
Situational Assessments with Aerial Data
Aerial drone technology reduces inspection risk by remotely collecting data from areas that are dangerous or contain hazardous material, making it a safter and more cost-effective choice than ground inspections or aircraft capture.
Using aerial data to gain a comprehensive understanding of conditions allows resources to be used more effectively. By removing the guesswork, crews can be deployed faster to high impact areas and materials can be used more efficiently, reducing the need to move resources around because of surplus or shortage.
Faster Data Collection
When disasters hit, time management is crucial. Drones help identify damage in hard to reach or dangerous environments faster than manual inspection methods, enabling restoration services to begin rapidly. Because drones can be deployed quickly, they have become a critical part of disaster response efforts.
Increased Safety
In addition to the time saved, exposure to hazardous environments is minimized. By using a drone, you can remotely collect aerial data from environments that are dangerous or contain hazardous materials, greatly reducing the exposure of risk to your surveying team.
Professional Field Team
Firmatek has a nationwide presence with the ability to mobilize quickly for rapid deployment. Firmatek field technicians are equipped to be self-contained, highly mobile units so they are ideally suited to disaster response types of work. Drone kits are supplied with a drone, extra batteries, and additional chargers for continuous operations. Our team of experienced professionals is well-versed and prepared to evaluate and execute disaster response missions.
Firmatek’s Natural Disaster Response to the Nashville Tornados
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Deliverables
Experts in data capture and analysis, we transform data into actionable insights through customized deliverables.
Ortho Imagery
An orthophoto, orthomosaic or orthoimage is an aerial photograph geometrically corrected so that the scale is uniform. Unlike an uncorrected aerial photograph, an orthophoto can be used to measure true distances because it is an accurate representation of the Earth’s surface, having been adjusted for topographic relief, lens distortion, and camera tilt.
LAS Point Cloud
A point cloud is a set of data points in a coordinate system. In a three-dimensional coordinate system, these points are usually defined by X, Y, and Z coordinates, and often are intended to represent the external surface of an object. LiDAR scanners and Drones gather point measurements from real-world objects or photos for a point cloud that can then be translated to a 3D mesh or CAD model.
Stockpile Volume
Generate 3D models and accurate volumes of indoor and outdoor stockpiles. Our LiDAR laser scanning and Aerial Data reporting help you survey stockpiles safely, accurately and efficiently to meet reporting and contractor deadlines.
Cut and Fill Volume Calculations
We reduce the manual work needed to perform a cut-and-fill. Once LiDAR or Drone Aerial Data is collected, our DARP platforms enables cloud processing and export into native Autodesk file formats like an RCS, a point cloud file that can be used in AutoCAD.
Topographic CAD
Our Data Analysis and Reporting platforms uses LiDAR and Drone Aerial Data to provide all data points necessary to create fast and reliable terrain models, contours and volume calculations.
