A Handy-Dandy Non-Comprehensive Recap of Airship Applications
APPLICATIONS for REMOTELY-OPERATED AIRSHIPS
including Remote Sensing
Attachments & Devices for Primarily Civilian Clients
2. Law enforcement: traffic, aerial views of traffic accidents;
3. Marine mammal population census, migration patterns
4. Design-and-Build surveys for planning & construction of bridges & roads
5. Marine biology --- spotting red tides in coastal waters; monitoring the health of coral reefs
6. Fire fighting --- first-on-scene situation assessment in high rise fires, inaccessible areas, or involving hazardous materials
7. News organizations --- parades, ceremonies, sporting events, and in situations where danger to the news crew is possible
8. Radioactive and toxic waste sites --- photography & survey without risk
9. Geology --- Oil field exploration; survey & sample of volcanic eruptions
10. Federal & State Forest and Wildlife Services --- tree census; lumber poaching; game and fish poaching
11. Telecommunications --- surveying & designing fiber optic cable installations
12. Meteorological observations --- measuring wind speed, air pressure, air temperature, dew point, and humidity at various altitudes above ground level
13. Raising communications antennas during emergency situations
14. Fishing --- spotting commercial and big game fish; schools of food fish for purse seining; seining schools of small fish and invertebrates for commercial sale as bait
15. Monitoring railways, pipelines, and power lines --- a constant and ever-present requirement
16. Monitoring air pollutants for air quality standards determination
17. Agriculture --- Precision Agriculture techniques using remote sensing technology to monitor crop moisture content; no-harm seeding from the air, in which the soil does not get compacted by heavy tractors, and remains friable as a good seed bed
18. Archaeological site mapping; correlating aerial photographs with ground level excavations and discoveries
19. Commercial aerial photography for tourist and visitors’ bureaus, yacht brokers, school programs; realtors;
20. "Green" non-disruptive exploration of ecologically sensitive biospheres, such as rain forests and forest canopies
21. Lifting transmitting equipment into the sky for maximum range.
22. Radio antennas receiving and relaying Intelligence, Survey, and Reconnaissance (ISR) data from Ground Forces [military]
23. Long term recording in place by meteorological instruments --- anemometers, humidity meters, thermometers, etc.
24. Air sampling for pollutants, particulates, insects, and pollen.
25. Acoustic Sensors for detection of intruders, without the noisy interference of internal combustion engine noise
26. Radio relay and jamming for counter-insurgency purposes. [military]
27. Detecting mines & other explosive devices [military]
28. Thermal Imaging
29. Precise aiming of conventional ballistic weapons from a safe distance by Forward Artillery Observers [military]
30. Battlefield or Distant Control of ground forces [military]
31. Crowd control and detection devices [law enforcement]
32. Lifting astronomical observatories into altitudes where atmospheric disturbances and suspended particles will not interfere with image quality
