{"id":12671,"date":"2019-05-04T16:11:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T16:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=12671"},"modified":"2019-05-04T16:11:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T16:11:35","slug":"north-carolina-recognized-for-drone-use-in-disaster-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/unmanned-systems\/north-carolina-recognized-for-drone-use-in-disaster-response\/%20","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Recognized for Drone Use in Disaster Response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bobby-accepts-Drone-Award-at-AUVSIedit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12672\" width=\"341\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bobby-accepts-Drone-Award-at-AUVSIedit.jpg 862w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bobby-accepts-Drone-Award-at-AUVSIedit-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><figcaption> <em>Aviation Director Bobby Walston (fourth from left) accepts the AUVSI XCELLENCE Award on behalf of NCDOT <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The North Carolina Department of Transportation has received\nnational honors for its innovative use of drones during the state\u2019s coordinated\nresponse to Hurricane Florence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NCDOT was awarded the Association for Unmanned Vehicle\nSystems International&#8217;s XCELLENCE Award in the humanitarian category at the\nAUVSI\u2019s annual XPONENTIAL conference this week. The award comes with a $5,000\nprize, which the Division of Aviation has elected to present to the North\nCarolina Disaster Relief Fund. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The entry from the Division of Aviation\u2019s drone program was\nselected out of more than 140 other entries worldwide. The division was honored\nfor its groundbreaking use of emerging drone technology to keep people safe\nfrom a tragic storm in a way that had never been done on this scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUtilizing drones and other technological advances helped\nNCDOT keep people safe during Hurricane Florence and aided all our recovery\nefforts,\u201d said N.C. Transportation Secretary Jim Trogdon. \u201cBeing recognized for\nthis exemplifies exceptional teamwork coming together to use technology in ways\nwe couldn\u2019t even imagine just a few years ago and is an example of ingenuity at\nits best.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than a dozen NCDOT drone teams flew more than 200\nmissions and captured 8,000 pictures and videos of the damage and flooding left\nbehind by Hurricane Florence in September. This helped state and federal\nagencies make real-time decisions around aiding emergency response, planning\ndetour routes, assessing future repair needs, expanding disaster declarations\nand warning the public of the dangers faced on North Carolina&#8217;s roadways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Humanitarian Awards demonstrate the profound\nability of the recipients to positively impact lives through unmanned systems\ntechnology,\u201d said Brian Wynne, president and CEO of AUVSI. &#8220;We proudly\nrecognize the five winners and hope their accomplishments will serve as an\ninspiration to utilize unmanned aircraft systems to accomplish remarkable\nachievements for our society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the first year that AUVSI has presented an\nXCELLENCE Award in the humanitarian category. Zipline, a partner with NCDOT on\nthe Drone Integration Pilot Program, was also among the winners selected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Carolina Department of Transportation has received national honors for its innovative use of drones during the state\u2019s coordinated response to Hurricane Florence. NCDOT was awarded the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International&#8217;s XCELLENCE Award in the humanitarian category at the AUVSI\u2019s annual XPONENTIAL conference this week. The award comes with a $5,000 prize, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unmanned-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12673,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12671\/revisions\/12673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}