page_title: List of unmanned aerial vehicle applications
section_title: Civil
hierarchical_section_title: List of unmanned aerial vehicle applications / Applications / Civil
caption_attribution_description: English: Interspect Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for aerial photogrammetry Magyar: Interspect pilóta nélküli oktokopter légi fotogrammetriai felmérésekhez
context_page_description: Unmanned aerial vehicles are used across the world for civilian, commercial, as well as military applications. This is an incomplete list of those applications.
context_section_description: Civil uses include aerial crop surveys, aerial photography, search and rescue, inspection of power lines and pipelines, counting wildlife, delivering medical supplies to otherwise inaccessible regions, and detection of illegal hunting, reconnaissance operations, cooperative environment monitoring, border patrol missions, convoy protection, forest fire detection and monitoring, surveillance, coordinating humanitarian aid, plume tracking, land surveying, fire and large-accident investigation, landslide measurement, illegal landfill detection, the construction industry, smuggling, and crowd monitoring.
  US government agencies use UAVs such as the RQ-9 Reaper to patrol borders, scout property and locate fugitives. One of the first authorized for domestic use was the ShadowHawk in Montgomery County, Texas SWAT and emergency management offices.
  Private citizens and media organizations use UAVs for surveillance, recreation, news-gathering, or personal land assessment. In February 2012, an animal rights group used a MikroKopter hexacopter to film hunters shooting pigeons in South Carolina. The hunters then shot the UAV down. In 2014, a UAV was used to successfully locate a man with dementia, who was missing for 3 days.
caption: Interspect UAS B 3.1 octocopter for commercial aerial cartographic purposes and 3D mapping
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