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Mozambique’s national relief agency is experimenting with using drones for natural disasters.
The drones in the central province of Sofala can fly over flooded areas, recording accurate images of the situation, capturing aerial images at various angles and producing a map.
It will take the drone 13 minutes to assess the situation over a 400-metre area. Previously it took two to three weeks to collect the data and many more months to process it.
A technician from Mozambique’s National Operation Emergency Centre, Antonio Jose Beleza, told me he will be able to use the drone images to assess who to evacuate first during floods.
