Drone by Drone, as it did last year, is providing preventive service by drone during the development of the fireworks of the Semana Grande de Bilbao (#AsteNagusia2024).
By using unmanned aircraft equipped with thermographic and visible spectrum cameras, the Bizkaia drone operator company is obtaining aerial data in the form of radiometric photographs and videos, before, during and after the launch of the fireworks.
The live viewing of the technical recordings at the advanced command post allows the Civil Protection and Bilbao Fire Department to detect any small fire that may occur, either in the vegetation and trees of the Etxebarria Park in Bilbao or on the roofs of the houses on Calle de la Esperanza and Calle de la Viuda in Epalza.
With the precise information captured by our drones, the aforementioned services are able to quickly locate a fire and tackle it quickly. The recorded material could be analyzed for expert purposes to assess possible fires that were not detected at first and to analyze their real origin afterwards, by having data from before and after the fireworks were launched.
Flying drones in these circumstances is demanding at a regulatory and technical level, so the operations are carried out with two redundant drones, due to the existing risk, both equipped with thermal cameras to analyze the incidents that could occur.
