Olin College’s Drone Research Hopes to Help Fight Wildfires

Interesting fact: The FAA granted Olin College a research exemption to fly drones to “conduct research on its own behalf and on behalf of other research groups.” According to Olin’s website, “Olin is one of a just a handful of schools to get this kind of exemption.”

For more information about Professor Bennett’s research on deploying drones in dangerous conditions to get information in real-time, go to www.olin.edu/the-wire/2015/olin-drone-research-aims-help-fight-wildfires/.