Drones are being used to help clean up after car accidents, to help put out fires, to assist with search and rescue operations, to deliver life-saving medical equipment, and they're even being used to help plant trees.
By flying over certain geographical areas,
collecting data about that area regarding the topography, soil conditions etc, and combining that information with satellite data, drones have been able to help find
the best locations to plant and they've helped to plant thousands of trees.
They've already been planting trees in Myanmar and they might soon help with planting trees in other areas, as an increasing number of farmers worldwide start to consider drone technology and how it might help their growing operations etc. Drones are being used on farms in a myriad of ways today, helping to plant trees is just one more task they might be able to help complete.
10 drones helped only 2 operators be able to plant 400,000 trees in just one day.
That's a lot of trees and would have taken a large group of operators
many days to likely complete without the help of that technology. By using that data, they were also arguably more effective at their planting by likely positioning the tree in a more ideal location.
Drones are helping to make up the loss.
Thousands of trees are cut down every year and tree planting programs that seek to replant
aren't fast enough, it takes a lot of time to try and keep up with planting to cover that loss. But drones are helping to speed things up and have been used to spray
tree seeds from the sky to help with deforestation.
One start-up that's been working in this space, known as BioCarbon Engineering, imagines that they could inevitably use drones to help plant 1 billion trees in a single year.
That's going to make a
big difference in moving quickly to replant trees in areas that have seen significantly loss.
Not only are the drones faster and more accurate at planting than traditional methods such as helicopter spreading, but it's also been found that
the species that are planted by drones have had better survival rates than
helicopter spreading, they've seen success with drone planting that's similar to the success seen with more specific hand planting. They aren't stopping at trees either, they're being tasked to also plant flowers,
bushes, grasses, and fungi.
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U mean we will be getting dope high by breathing concentrated oxygenated cannabis? 😎😎
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No, but there will be so much randomly placed cannabis that it will be impossible to eradicate and one will only need to go "weed hunting" during fall to find abundant buds. The government at that point will give up.. (BTW, weed hunting is great exercise, an excellent way to get out into nature, and super cheap - the only tools needed are garbage bags!)
total chaos 😂😂😂
So cool my friend
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