LinuxCon Japan: OpenRelief launches

Shane Coughlan got hands-on experience in the kinds of problems faced by disaster aid teams while helping with relief efforts after Japan's earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident in 2011. That experience was part of a discussion on open source technical measures to assist such efforts at LinuxCon Japan 2011, but it also led to a new project, OpenRelief, that was announced at LinuxCon Japan 2012. The project is aimed at developing inexpensive—"disposable"—drone aircraft to assist relief teams in seeing over the horizon to detect people, changes in terrain, smoke, radiation, and other conditions in places that may be difficult or dangerous for on-the-ground exploration.

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