{"id":192628,"date":"2020-02-25T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T17:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=192628"},"modified":"2020-02-25T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T17:02:10","slug":"drones-to-be-used-to-track-natural-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=192628","title":{"rendered":"Drones to be used to track natural disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (NDDOT)\u00a0 In preparation for spring flooding, the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) and Northern Plains UAS Test Site (NPUASTS) announced a new plan to help improve and supplement its current unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This partnership is another great example of how our whole-of-government approach to natural disasters and other major events is enhancing services for North Dakota citizens,&#8221; Gov. Doug Burgum said. &#8220;Harnessing this cutting-edge technology<strong> to improve flood preparation and response efforts<\/strong> shows again why North Dakota is the nation&#8217;s proving ground for UAS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The plan will provide UAS flight operations and capture photo and video for the NDDOT to enhance emergency response to flooding across the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very excited for this partnership and what it means for our UAS program and the state of North Dakota,&#8221; said NDDOT Director Bill Panos. &#8220;This imagery will provide us with valuable information and give us a new prospective on flooding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NPUASTS will utilize its own resources and local vendors to accomplish the emergency response efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (NDDOT)\u00a0 In preparation for spring flooding, the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) and Northern Plains UAS Test Site (NPUASTS) announced a new plan to help improve and supplement its current unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) program. &#8220;This partnership is another great example of how our whole-of-government approach to natural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192629,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192628\/revisions\/192629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}