Urban development
- The Andhra Pradesh Government is using drones to monitor the development activities of the capital city region, i.e. Amaravati, through dron-ebased outputs.
- As a pilot project, the Karnataka Government is using drones for property tax estimation and creation of base map of a city/town for detailed planning and sustainable governance.
- The Chandigarh Administration has deployed drones as part of pilot project to get an aerial view of all properties in Chandigarh.
Read PwC's report on how drones can be used extensively in the Indian construction sector.
Transport
- Indian Railways has used drones for monitoring the 25-km long Seawoods-Belapur-Uran15 corridor.
- The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has deployed drones in the Salem-Chennai green corridor expressway project to ensure accuracy with respect to the extent of land required for the project.
- As a pilot project, the Government of Maharashtra has deployed two drones to monitor weekend rush hour traffic and accidents on the 95-km stretch between the Lonavala Exit and Khalapur Toll Plaza and on the six-lane Mumbai-Pune Expressway.
Read PwC's report on how drones can be used extensively in the Indian construction sector.
Agriculture
- A general insurance company deployed drones in a particular district in Maharashtra for assessment of crop damage due to floods in 2016.
- The Maharashtra Government has used drones over fields in the Marathwada region for carrying out crop loss assessment due to deficit rainfall.
- The individual farmers of Andhra Pradesh’s capital region are deploying drones to spray crop pesticide/ fertiliser in limited crop areas.
Disaster Management
- The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) deployed four drones to scan areas where search and rescue teams could not access in flood-hit Uttarakhand.
- The National Disaster Relief Force used drones in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, to trace 24 engineering students from Hyderabad who were swept away by the Beas river.
- During the Nepal earthquake, several agencies deployed drones for search and rescue operations and to map toppled monuments, ruined heritage sites and devastated homes.
Mining
- The Andhra Pradesh Government used a drone for monitoring of stockpile storage, 3D mapping and volumetric analysis of limestone over a period of time.
- The Karnataka Police Department has procured and deployed 12 drones equipped with 18.2 MP cameras and night vision capability which fly at an altitude of 1 km for about 30 minutes to detect illegal sand mining from 5 km away.
- In Jharkhand, drones are deployed for boundary and safety zone inspection of coal and iron mines, counting of vegetation in reclaimed areas, and profiling of quarry and dump for volume calculations
