CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Which is the first state to get approval for using drones to inspect power transmission lines and towers? Notes: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Director General of Civil Aviation have permitted Maharashtra to use drones for inspecting power transmission lines and towers.

Detailed explanation-2: -At present, drones are widely used in military and commercial applications such as surveillance, crop protection, construction project surveying, filmmaking, healthcare, e-commerce delivery, and more.

Detailed explanation-3: -DJI Matrice series drones are the workhorses of power line inspections. Used for RGB, thermal and LiDAR data capture in low, middle and high voltage lines, they are one of the best performing drones for power line inspection.

Detailed explanation-4: -Use of UAVs offer significant benefits – surveying tough terrains, recording high resolution images and faster monitoring of large regions in a short time. The potential of drone-based applications is magnifying with increasing sophistication of UAVs and convergence with technologies like AI, Big Data and IoT.