Episode 40 - UAVs and Hazard Research with Kevin Franke
After a hazard event, the community just wants to get back to normal quickly. My guest today is Dr. Kevin Franke from BYU and we'll talk about his work scanning hazard areas quickly using UAV technology and how his team creates accurate 3D models of sites using their scans for researchers to use.
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Show Notes
This week on the show, we talk about a fascinating subject area: using drones to quickly assess a hazard area after an event and create an extremely detailed and accurate 3D model for researchers to study the effects of earthquakes, hurricanes, or other hazards on a community while the data is still fresh and the site is relatively undisturbed. This work is extremely important because getting scientific data quickly while a community is in the first few days after an event is critical to the understanding of how the hazard affected the area. The people in these communities just want to remove debris, start repairs, and get back to normal quickly so this data is extremely perishable and needs to be gathered rapidly. My guest today is Dr. Kevin Franke from BYU and we'll talk about his work scanning hazard areas from the air.
Find out more about his important work here:
https://ceen.et.byu.edu/content/kevin-w-franke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tecc_N9hDk