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*Allegedly https://www.avantaventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Avanta-Ventures-Case-Study-Cape-Analytics.pdf https://www.avantaventures.com/wp-content/up

by chomp 3y ago

*Allegedly https://www.avantaventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Avanta-Ventures-Case-Study-Cape-Analytics.pdf https://www.avantaventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Av... Cape Analytics' documentation says that UAV carries higher resolution than is necessary and most of their stuff is done with aerial fixed-wing aircraft. Not that it matters for how crazy this story is, I just wanted to inject some facts into the conversation.

FPGAhacker 3y ago
Fixed-wing aircraft and drones are not mutually exclusive categories.
LegitShady 3y ago
There are fixed wing uavs
- RosanaAnaDana 3y ago
  Manned aircraft still way cheaper at scale. You can do whole counties in a day. Fly it 2-3 times a year and sell it to hundreds/ thousands of customers. Unless the property is ridiculously expensive, don't expect any one to commission a flight for it.
olliej 3y ago
Ok, so the issue isn't "aircraft controlled from ground vs aircraft controlled from the air", it's private property being spied on/inspected without consent or notice. That's illegal for a landlord, and should be illegal for insurance companies. Moreover, their identification is (from the article) erroneous, and their risk claim is false (per the article the person is not in a fire zone). Failing to acknowledge those are erroneous and continuing to terminate the policy is BS, and I assume fraudulent: if the law allows an insurance company to do zero-notice termination of policy without a justification I'm sure that they would have done that instead, rather than providing any justification that could prove wrong.
RosanaAnaDana 3y ago
Usually you use something like Nearmaps, Hexagon, or Vexcel. These companies use multi camera oblique imagery that can get views down the side of houses were you can do a 'good-enough' job assessing at least some of the major factors for wildfire risk. Debris or outside storage would fall into this category.

by chomp 3y ago

FPGAhacker 3y ago

Fixed-wing aircraft and drones are not mutually exclusive categories.

LegitShady 3y ago

There are fixed wing uavs

RosanaAnaDana 3y ago
Manned aircraft still way cheaper at scale. You can do whole counties in a day. Fly it 2-3 times a year and sell it to hundreds/ thousands of customers. Unless the property is ridiculously expensive, don't expect any one to commission a flight for it.

olliej 3y ago

Ok, so the issue isn't "aircraft controlled from ground vs aircraft controlled from the air", it's private property being spied on/inspected without consent or notice. That's illegal for a landlord, and should be illegal for insurance companies. Moreover, their identification is (from the article) erroneous, and their risk claim is false (per the article the person is not in a fire zone). Failing to acknowledge those are erroneous and continuing to terminate the policy is BS, and I assume fraudulent: if the law allows an insurance company to do zero-notice termination of policy without a justification I'm sure that they would have done that instead, rather than providing any justification that could prove wrong.

RosanaAnaDana 3y ago

Usually you use something like Nearmaps, Hexagon, or Vexcel. These companies use multi camera oblique imagery that can get views down the side of houses were you can do a 'good-enough' job assessing at least some of the major factors for wildfire risk. Debris or outside storage would fall into this category.