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This Homemade Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can’t
British Mountain Rescue workers have developed an automated drone system that can scour a landscape far quicker and more thoroughly than human eyes.
“I remember one MR conference at Leeds University, where Dan shows up with his long hair and his skateboard,” Mike Park says, “and someone asked if he’d walked into the wrong place—they thought he was a student who’d come back a week early.” When the celebrated British TV doctor Michael Mosley went missing on the island of Symi in Greece, Park even had conversations with his Greek counterparts about the trio flying out to help. “I just quite enjoy the problem-solving aspects.” And in the end, he points out, the only real development cost was his, Roach’s, and Parsons’ time—which is something they, like thousands of other MR volunteers across the UK, are happy to give to help those in need.
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