What are the advantages of fire drones?

With the warming of global temperature, the task of forest fire prevention is becoming more and more serious, and the fire departments of various countries are facing a complex situation of fire fighting and rescue and social assistance. Traditional on-site investigation methods are outdated and can no longer meet the needs of fire rescue. The emergence of drone technology provides fire rescue services. With great help, UAVs can carry different mission loads to perform monitoring functions in forest area patrols, satellite hot spot reconnaissance, fire field reconnaissance, etc., and provide assistance for commanding secondary schools to designate rescue plans. Compared with traditional fire fighting methods, fire drones have the following advantages:

1. Mobility and flexibility

2. Comprehensive vision

3. Low cost

4. Simple operation

5. Safe and reliable

Operators can perform tasks remotely or programmatically, effectively avoiding the shortcomings of traditional fire fighting and rescue operations, ensuring the safety of fire officers and soldiers, improving the safety factor, and reducing the frequency of secondary accidents; the participation of fire drones in forest fire fighting solves the problem of ground fire The patrol cannot take into account the problem of forest fires in remote areas, as well as the accurate grasp and timely understanding of various dynamic information at the scene of major forest fires. As a powerful supplement to the existing forestry monitoring methods, fire-fighting drones show the incomparable advantages of other means. With the continuous development of drone technology, fire-fighting drones will definitely play an important role in forest aviation firefighting. , and has broad application prospects in the field of fire rescue in the future.

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