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Articles | Volume 19, issue 9
Articles | Volume 19, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-2039-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-2039-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 9
Research article
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17 Sep 2019
Research article |  | 17 Sep 2019

Pre-disaster mapping with drones: an urban case study in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Maja Kucharczyk and Chris H. Hugenholtz

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We performed pre-disaster 3-D mapping with a drone in downtown Victoria, BC, Canada. This was the first drone mapping mission over a Canadian city approved by Canada’s aviation authority. We were legally constrained to using a specific drone. The goal was to assess the quality of the 3-D map. Results indicate that the spatial accuracies achieved with this drone would allow for sub-meter building collapse detection, but the non-tilting camera was insufficient for mapping buildings in 3-D.
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