Two influential US aerial public safety organizations are teaming up to adopt and promote standardized methods in their drone testing programs – their effort to enhance safety and improve development of remote of UAV use in emergencies by police, fire fighters, emergency medical technicians, and other first responders.
The agreement was struck between the Airborne Public Safety Association (APSA) and Airborne International Response Team (AIRT), under which the fast-growing nonprofit DRONERESPONDERS operates to improve, and encourage increased drone and robotic use by public safety services. Together the partners will work to facilitate the dissemination and implementation of the National Institute for Standards and Technology’s (NIST) testing methods for new UAV applications.
Doing so, the partners say, will accelerate the updating and adoption of best practices for conducting trials of new drone operation. It will also spread standardized methods for…
