Triggering avalanches and fighting fires, just another day at Drone Amplified
Episode 28 of the Props Clear podcast, hosted by Jillian Angeline / Max Tubman, titled "Triggering avalanches and fighting fires, just another day at Drone Amplified" was published on April 29, 2024 and runs 39 minutes.
April 29, 2024 ·39m · Props Clear
Summary
From helping wildland firefighters conduct prescribed burns and back burn operations, to controlling avalanches, Drone Amplified is finding ways to use unmanned systems to save lives and keep the supply chain moving. Jillian Angeline speaks with Max Tubman, the Director of Integrations at the company. You'll hear about the magic of dragon eggs, and how a chemical reaction in the drone helps the spheres catch on fire at the right moment to make firefighting efforts more efficient. ...
Episode Description
From helping wildland firefighters conduct prescribed burns and back burn operations, to controlling avalanches, Drone Amplified is finding ways to use unmanned systems to save lives and keep the supply chain moving.
Jillian Angeline speaks with Max Tubman, the Director of Integrations at the company. You'll hear about the magic of dragon eggs, and how a chemical reaction in the drone helps the spheres catch on fire at the right moment to make firefighting efforts more efficient. If you check out the video interview on Jillian's YouTube channel, you can watch the IGNIS drone-based aerial ignition system in action.
Max also talks about current testing of the new DART, a system dropping explosive payloads to trigger avalanches to prevent even bigger ones in the future. DART stands for Drone Avalanche Reduction Technology. "The reason why that's really important is if you can trigger the avalanche at the right time, you can prevent it from covering roads or covering a railroad." Max explained. Team members have been traveling across the country testing the drone-based system. Drone Amplified announced in February successful tests with Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities and Alaska Railroad Corporation.
Teamwork is key to Drone Amplified's success, and so is learning from every failure in the development process. "If we're not failing, we're not really pushing ourselves hard enough either," Max said during the show.
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