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> From: Shane Coughlan <shane@openrelief.org>
> To: OpenRelief Developer <developer@openrelief.org>, OpenRelief Outreach <outreach@openrelief.org>, user@openrelief.org
> Date: March 5, 2014 at 6:58 PM
> Subject: [User] ‘In the Philippines, drones provide humanitarian relief’
>
> Dear all
>
> Interesting article recently with the headline ‘In the Philippines, drones provide humanitarian relief’:
> https://www.devex.com/en/news/in-the-philippines-drones-provide-humanitarian/82512
>
> It highlights use cases as follows:
> 1. Immediate assessment.
> 2. Strategic planning.
> 3. Search and rescue operations.
> 4. Protecting aid workers.
>
> The not so cool part is this:
> "A Huginn X1 drone is currently worth €40,000 ($55,000) including user insurance, drone flight training, export control management, technical support, products and parts stocks, and warranty. De Rosbo however stressed that using the technology is still cheaper than “any other assessment tool in use today, including manual labor and military chopper.”"
>
> I guess this underlines why open technology is so important. Things like the OpenRelief target of 1,000 USD for a deployable airframe present an entirely different set of economics to the types of price seen in the current commercial sector.
>
> Shane
>
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