{"id":117403,"date":"2020-12-20T00:09:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T08:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/more-than-500-lives-saved"},"modified":"2020-12-20T00:10:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T08:10:58","slug":"more-than-500-lives-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/more-than-500-lives-saved","title":{"rendered":"More than 500 Lives Saved by Drones: DJI Continues Mapping Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/more-than-500-lives-saved.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest rescue took place last month, when sherriff\u2019s deputies found a missing 93-year-old woman in a dark field in Missouri \u2013 using a DJI drone with a thermal imaging camera. That brings the total to more than 500 lives saved by drones, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/dronelife.com\/2017\/03\/14\/how-many-lives-saved-by-drones\/\">DJI\u2019s project<\/a> counting the lives that would have been lost without direct intervention of drone technology.<\/p>\n<p>DJI began the project back in 2017 when they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/q9hl6h4zz4hspku\/Lives%20Saved%20FINAL.pdf?dl=0\">published a paper<\/a> called \u201cLives Saved: A Survey of Drones in Action\u201d which found that even back in 2016 \u2013 2017, drones saved lives at the rate of nearly 1 per week. That first paper has evolved into the <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.dji.com\/drone-rescue-map\/\">DJI Drone Rescue Map<\/a>, which allows viewers to explore rescue incidents all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>The project was started in response to bad press about drone technology. Research has shown that a negative drone event \u2013 even one that later is found to be inaccurate or untrue \u2013 averages more than 10x the publicity than a positive drone event. That\u2019s a problem for a new industry struggling against negative public perception and fears over privacy issues and misuse of drone technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest rescue took place last month, when sherriff\u2019s deputies found a missing 93-year-old woman in a dark field in Missouri \u2013 using a DJI drone with a thermal imaging camera. That brings the total to more than 500 lives saved by drones, according to DJI\u2019s project counting the lives that would have been lost [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117404,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117403\/revisions\/117404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}