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Falcon Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Dereck Plante, Geoff Mcclary, Johnny Greaser, Micah Lehman, Kyle Miller, Pauline Deutcheu Tchouako

Falcon Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (2019-21)

Missionary aviation pilots often must land their planes on remote airstrips that might be unsafe due to runway obstructions such as encroaching vegetation or large objects that were unknowingly placed on the runway. The Falcon Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) team partnered with Indigenous People's Technology and Education Center (ITEC) to develop an imaging system using a UAV to scan airstrips to detect these obstructions. ITEC was founded by Steve Saint, the son of martyred missionary Nate Saint, to develop technologies to aid missionaries and indigenous peoples in their work. The Falcon UAV team focused primarily on the use of automated …