Wolf’s staff includes two FAA Certified Remote Pilots. This authorizes us to operate Wolf’s quadcopter drone UAS (unmanned aircraft system) to capture images and video footage at incident sites, such as vehicular crashes, fires and construction sites. We then use this footage for analyses (including Pix4D processing) and presentations.
The advantages of using a UAS for image and video acquisition include:
· Safety. Many incident sites are unsafe because of structural integrity loss from explosions and fires or inaccessibility.
· Efficiency. Capturing evidence data may be done more quickly using a UAS than by conventional methods.
· Comprehensiveness. Sometimes UAS technology can capture and preserve critical data that cannot be captured in any other way.
· Effectiveness. When it’s important for viewers to be able to see site details, our UAS offers views not available by ground-based methods.
Our Remote Pilots follow FAA rules to operate the UAS. Our pilots follow these rules to ensure FAA compliance and the integrity of our investigations.