First-arriving officers frequently make consequential decisions with incomplete information. Rear conditions, roof conditions, large building footprints, wildfire perimeter information, inaccessible terrain and major-incident scale may not be visible from ground level.
An aircraft carried on the rig and launched by the crew that needs the view.
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Thermal from above, for roof conditions, hot spots and locating people in the open.
Stitched imagery that produces a current map of the scene rather than a video feed.
Remotely launched aircraft that arrive before apparatus and stream to the responding units.
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AirData Public Safety
Drone fleet and compliance management platform for public safety UAS programs.
Visit website →Aloft Air Control
UAS fleet, airspace, authorization, compliance, and flight-management platform for public safety drone programs.
Visit website →Axon Air
Axon Air provides drone-as-first-responder hardware, software, live video, and regulatory support for public safety agencies.
Visit website →BRINC DFR
Purpose-built public safety DFR ecosystem combining autonomous drones, robotic stations, remote operations software, CAD integration, and program support.
Visit website →Commander 3 XL
Multi-mission public safety drone capable of thermal imaging, surveillance, mapping, payload delivery, and other emergency response operations.
Visit website →DroneControl Software Ecosystem
A secure drone operations platform for fire and emergency services, combining flight operations, live video, incident collaboration, automated flight logs, media management, pilot management and fleet compliance.
Visit website →DroneSense Platform
DroneSense helps public safety agencies fly, manage, map, stream, and collaborate around drone operations.
Visit website →Flock DFR
Flock DFR is a drone-as-first-responder system that launches drones to provide live incident video and scene awareness.
Visit website →FlytBase Drone Autonomy Platform
Hardware-agnostic autonomy platform for operating docked drone fleets and automatically responding to public safety incidents.
Visit website →Fotokite Sigma
Fotokite Sigma is a tethered UAS that provides fire and public safety teams with live aerial situational awareness.
Visit website →MatrixSpace 360 Radar
AI-enabled low-altitude airspace radar that supports detect-and-avoid and scalable BVLOS Drone as First Responder operations.
Visit website →Paladin DFR
Turnkey autonomous DFR system using docked aircraft and cloud-based operations to provide aerial intelligence before responders arrive.
Visit website →Seneca Autonomous Aerial Suppression System
Autonomous AI-enabled fire suppression drones that locate fires and deliver Class A foam for rapid initial attack and other wildland firefighting missions.
Visit website →Skydio Solution for Fire Service
Skydio provides drones and software for fire service drone-as-first-responder, incident intelligence, thermal imaging, and mapping.
Visit website →SkyfireAI DFR
Turnkey Drone as First Responder program combining autonomous operations, regulatory support, training, airspace awareness, and remote pilots.
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