There are many beautiful creatures that many of us fail to see in our everyday life. Many of the most beautiful creatures live deep within wondrous, vast forests. Seeing these creatures is often difficult, but what is even more difficult is protecting and learning about them. In Lian Pin Koh’s case, the animals near the Himalayas in Nepal are at risk to be poached for their body parts. Protecting these animals with soldiers is often difficult due to the size of the forests and the possibility of getting into shootouts with poachers. Koh and his team have thought of a way to combat “wildlife crime,” and learn more about the animals and their habitat, and that solution is the drone (Koh). Koh describes a drone as “simply a model aircraft …show more content…
Some forests can be so large that it would be a project in and of itself to patrol for illegal hunters. Koh argues that drones solve this problem. The conservation drones can be programmed to fly however the operator wants. They can even be used to create a map of an area it is surveying (Koh). As Koh describes, “sometimes, we fly the drone in a lawnmower- type patter and take pictures of that area, and those pictures can be processed to produce a map of that forest.” Koh also explains how drones help to protect animals from being illegally killed. “Other researchers might want to fly the drone along the boundaries of a forest to watch out for poachers or people who might be trying to enter the forest illegally.” Drones can also help track animals through radio frequency, implant listening devices into an area of the forest, and collect images from cameras on the ground (Koh). Drones remove all of the grunt work and some of the human risk involved with conservation, and they do it with just a few clicks of a …show more content…
Koh makes his drones, which can carry additional weight, more efficient by adding tools. “A drone like this is meant to carry a useful payload, such as a video camera or photographic camera.” By having additional tools, researchers are able to map out the landscape, get a close up view of certain objectives, and track animals or poachers even more efficiently (Koh). Koh added some unique tools to help get a better idea of what was in the forest. “Perhaps the most exciting way of using these drones is to fly them to a really remote, never-explored-before rainforest hidden somewhere in the tropics, and parachute down a microphone that would allow us to eavesdrop on the calls of mammals, birds, amphibians, the Yeti, the Sasquatch, Bigfoot, whatever.” Drones and the things that they can carry provide a wide array of ways to improve
In the article ‘’Confessions of a Drone Warrior’’, published in the GQ in October 22, 2013, by Matthew Power, the author talks about a drone pilot’s experience after working with military drones for 6 years. In this article, the main point the author is trying to prove is that flying military drones is not some kind of video game, it’s as real as it gets, even though the pilot doesn’t actually take part in combat. It can change people. During his service, the Airman First Class Brandon Bryant killed 1626 people. It’s terrifying, considering that the pilot had to watch every person die. His job was to monitor people(normally high-value targets in Afghanistan) from the sky and when he got the command to kill from the authorities, he fired a missile
“Government’s targeted killing of three U.S. citizens in two drone strikes, both in Yemen, far from any armed conflict zone.” (“Targeted Killings”). Drones or unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is the technology that has taken war and fighting to a brand new level. The technology is believed to lower the use of troops and life loss in the wars that are happening today. Can that same technology be considered dangerous? Or are the side effects something that can simply be considered a small cost for something better? Drones demonstrate a growth in technological advances , and also the world. Although as brilliant this technology might be, it brings a threat to the people.
Evidence: Drones have many beneficial uses, including in search-and-rescue missions, scientific research, mapping, and more. But deployed without proper regulation, drones equipped with facial recognition software, infrared technology, and speakers capable of monitoring personal conversations would cause unprecedented invasions of our privacy rights. Interconnected drones could enable mass tracking of vehicles and people in wide areas. Tiny drones could go completely unnoticed while peering into the window of a home or place of worship.
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Who here would like to go to war? Who wants a cheap and effective, strategic war? If you want that, then drones are the weapons to use. They’re cheap and effective, reduce unnecessary deaths, and are much more accurate than any other weapon. These are only a few reasons for why drones are the ultimate weapon of choice.
With technology advancing rapidly society is finding other ways to make some situations much easier. A method is the use of drones, they are becoming more popular among consumers but also with law enforcement, by including them to the work force, Drones have many beneficial uses by assisting law enforcement to fight crimes and processing accident photographs scenes as well as in search and rescue missions.
The Use of Drones for Military, Law Enforcement, and Civilian Operations “FALL BACK!” The soldier, pinned down in Afghanistan, has no way out. He looks back to his fellow Marines, a terrorized look on his face. The enemy approaches, and he can’t move. As if by a miracle, the incoming terrorists are quickly neutralized by an overhead drone, saving the soldier's life and allowing him to return back to his comrades.
My course project is going to be based on Military drone. I have some knowledge on military drones due to my ex-husband he was in the military and told me a lot of stories based on the drones. What interest me is on how they were being used to help vaporize any suspected terrorist so they sent them out to gather information so the military can be aware of what is going on in the United States or anywhere are the world. The first drones that was invented was called the MQ-1 Predator it was established in 1995 by a military contractor is was being used for surveillance and intelligence gathering tool, it was also being use to launch missiles. The drones were designed by Abraham E. Kareem and it is very interesting in designing a gadget like that
Key Success Factors Drones are becoming widely popular among the world population for recreational use. There have been abounding companies that have come out with different types of drones. One of the countless key success factors is the camera that is put on these drones. The cameras are used for an array of purposes, but people who do photo shoots with wildlife or large events seem to have the best purpose for them.
The use of drones as weapons of war and delivery and surveillance systems should not be dismissed because many people do not realize the real capabilities of drones and how they can be used to better the world through efficient air strikes, faster delivery times, and useful surveillance. Some of the most common misconceptions about drones arise due to the lack of knowledge about what drones are. A drone is a remote controlled, pilotless aircraft that can be used to survey an area, conduct stealth missions, and deliver supplies into difficult to reach areas (Drone). Unmanned aircraft are also, contrary to popular belief, not solely machines that kill without even a thought to who is being fired upon. They have proved to be effective surveillance units in areas that may be dangerous for manned aircraft to fly, along with the potential to be reliable delivery units (Drones).
A lot of countries all over the world depend on technological advances to fight against their opponents. This reduced the risk of having a soldier wounded or dying in a war by making it easier with using these technologies when it comes to head to head combat. Even though using technologies are a great idea but many ethical issues arise from it. One of the main issue is the use of these Drones. This technology is developing more and more. In a recent study showed that there are over 700 active drone development all over the world and these programs are controlled under companies, research institutes, and the government. United States is mainly using these drones to fight against so called “terrorist” but some other countries use them as well. It is immoral and unethical to use these drones because it cause psychological disorders, violate privacy, cause deaths of innocent lives, and increase terrorism. (Reardon)
Over the years, technology and electronics have evolved to suit the demands of consumers all over the world. Principles such as Moore’s law have been proven time and time again through the advancements of technology for both public and private consumers. Many new technologies have been introduced in the past decade that most people in the world could only dream about, drones being one of them. According to today’s standards, a drone is also known as an unmanned aerial vehicle or UAV (Rouse, p.1). Drones have attained many uses that continuously moves closer and closer to the middle-class society.
When looking back over my informative speech about drones and how they help endanger species like the Killer Whale, I used supporting materials like the pictures of the Killer Whales that were taken by NOAA with the use of a drone to show how the use of drones help scientist keep track of an animals health and also provides new areas of research that was not available before the development of drones. For instance, a group of researchers are trying to fund money to buy a drone to research more about the social lives and why female Killer Whales live long post-reproductive lives if they have enough food and the use of drones will help gather information that was impossible to gather until recently.
Drones are everywhere farmers use drones to spread seeds, Hollywood directors shoot films with drones with high quality camera and also the police use drones to find suspected peoples. “A pizzeria in Brooklyn, New York, recently did a test delivery of a pizza using drone.”(Source A) In the future drones may be use to delivering emergency medical supplies, and other important supplies within a faster time. But there is some disadvantage of drone use. Drones can be out of control when there is a strong wind gusts or some connecting issues that might lose control of the drone and crash into buildings or trees. Twenty states has regulate drones if you want to fight a drone you must have a license but you can only fight in during day time and now higher than 400 feet within the operator's sight.
Drones are used by universities, scientists, governments, ecologists, environmentalist, bureaus of land management and many other organizations to study wetlands and waterways, endangered species, herd health, erosion, track evasive species, identify blight growth, assist smoke-jumpers in forest fires, and take water and soil samples from inaccessible areas. Environmentalists have definitely maximized opportunities to use drone technology in their field of work.