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Mision PIURA: volunteer drone consortium maps 2017 floods in northern Peru

Between March and April 2017 a drone consortium covered over 7,000 hectares of flooded areas around Piura in three days with nine drones, producing 5 cm resolution maps for response and damage assessment.

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Organisation
WeRobotics Peru Flying Labs with SPACEDAT, UAV del Peru and PeruLand
Location
Piura region, northern Peru, Peru
Year
2017
Category
Disaster response

In the Mision PIURA activation between March and April 2017, a consortium including the WeRobotics Peru Flying Labs team, SPACEDAT, UAV del Peru and PeruLand flew nine fixed-wing and multirotor drones over flood-affected areas of northern Peru, including Piura, Catacaos and Chato Chico.

According to Flying Labs, the drones covered more than 7,000 hectares (about 70 square kilometres) in three days and produced orthorectified maps at 5 cm resolution. The data supported search and rescue, damage assessment, identification of stranded communities and planning of aid delivery routes.

Location: Piura region, northern Peru

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  1. Flying Labs: Flying robots survey flood damage in Peru https://flyinglabs.org/blog/flying-robots-survey-flood-damage-in-peru

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