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17 Sep 2013 19:34

An 8-foot drone did what larger aircraft couldn't in the wake of devastating rains. In the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster, emergency responders need clear images of the affected area as quickly as possible. When massive flooding hit Colorado last week, a local company called CLMax Engineering volunteered their drone to take aerial photos of submerged communities. The Falcon UAV began to create a map of the flooded areas, until the Federal Emergency Management Agency took over and told...
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