"drones have become central to the functions of various businesses and governmental organizations... Increasing work efficiency and productivity, decreasing workload and production costs"

Drones have quickly become essential to various aspects of daily life and their uses expand all the time as new ideas, technology and applications are found. Current uses include - 

• Aerial photography for journalism and film
• Express shipping and delivery
• Gathering information or supplying essentials for disaster management
• Thermal sensor drones for search and rescue operations
• Geographic mapping of inaccessible terrain and locations
• Building safety inspections
• Precision crop monitoring
• Unmanned cargo transport
• Law enforcement and border control surveillance
• Storm tracking and forecasting hurricanes and tornadoes

BUAVA are releasing a set of informational slides to raise public awareness about drones in Barbados and the region.

Find out more and join in with the discussions in our Facebook Group.