UAV Technology and photogrammetry

The key strengths that UAVs build on Photogrammetry are:

• Availability,
• Affordability, and
• Versatility.

They enable surveyors to capture and obtain extremely more accurate and detailed high survey data while considering its reducing expenses and operational problems.

Let’s check the Uses of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

The UAVs are also known as the drone, the unmanned aircraft system (UAS). It is the aircraft that do not need a pilot. And can operate without the human pilot aboard. The flight of UAVs can work either on the remote control by the human operator or entirely or else intermittently autonomously by onboard workstations.

For the missions which are too dangerous, risky or dull for the humans, the unmanned aerial vehicles are preferable. They provide the attack ability for high-risk missions, and they mostly use in the military applications.

The UAVs can also use in many other applications like the Aerial photography, the data collection, policing and the surveillance, and even the drone racing.

UAVs can also be useful in the commercial, the scientific and the recreational purpose.

The drones have multiple different names. They are also the killer drones and the attack drones. They also called the spy drones or the surveillance drones. Thus, these drones can be both remotes controlled by the pilot or controlled by the computer, and such drones use to transfer specific actions without direct human piloting.

The Advantages of UAV in Photogrammetry

• The UAV- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have modified the approach of the air power in the modern war times.
  UAVs are smaller as compare to jet aircraft as well as they are inexpensive. They don’t put the pilot’s life at risk if they crash.
• UAV Photogrammetry offers unstressful environment. It helps in a better decision-making process. It impersonates the safer atmosphere, as it can fly for more extended hours as long as the vehicle allows it.
• The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles can fly faster, and the life of the pilot is safe even if the plane gets crashed. Primarily UAVs are useful at the border patrol security. UAVs do not need the qualified pilot to fly it. Thus they are very cheaper.
• These UAVs are capable of flying for a longer period into the zone where it’s dangerous for the pilot. These UAVs can linger in the air almost up to 30 hours, performing the monotonous tasks, collecting the precise data, scanning the regions day-after-day and night-after-night in the darkness or foggy areas under computer control.
• The Unmanned Air Vehicle does the geological survey, and it conducts the visual or thermal imaging of the particular region. Over any terrain, it can measure the TV, Radio or cell phones coverage. The operators can merely hand off controls without any operational downtime.
• Unmanned Air Vehicles can save lives. They significantly diminish putting the military personnel in harm’s way or battle. They are inexpensive and are cheaper to purchase, and maintain than the normal aircraft.

The Disadvantages of UAV in photogrammetry

• The UAVs includes full resources problems. They are expensive as well to produce and keep up- the cost can go down over time though. The human can make a mistake in the remote controls and can cause the aircraft to crash, and they also have limited capabilities.
• Some software or the computer systems could break down resulting in failure of the aircraft and casualties on the ground. Losing the plane costs millions, but the drones cause civilian losses. Drone war causes the collateral damages in the private lives and property, as well as the traditional wars too.
• The computer failures can take place resulting in the loss of control of the aircraft. There is the moral problem on the application of the autonomous system conflict situations as the computer cannot take any initiative that results in the civilian deaths.
• The psychological problem has become self-evident in the military uses of Unmanned Air Vehicles. The person can click the button and kill numerous people without being in the entire war situation. The enemy can take and control the drones or the fleet of drones.
• The drones cause the security damage such as killing the civilians and destroying the civilian property. Some societies consider that the usage of drones is not brave and cold-hearted, They are too simple, By making the drone warfare very similar to video games, the drone warfare makes the battle too easy by diminishing ethical decisions.

Conclusion:

The above were the uses, Advantages, and Disadvantages of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). Therefore, the Photogrammetry has a wide range of opportunities in the current as well as in the future.