04-01-2012, 05:19 AM
The Drones Are Coming Home
Posted by JacobSloan on January 3, 2012![[Image: droner.jpg]](http://disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/droner.jpg)
Will baby-sized drones soon be used routinely for tracking residential property lines and other domestic purposes? With our nation's adventures in Iraq coming to an end, unmanned drones will need to be kept busy doing something…via BLDG BLOG:A post on sUAS Newsa blog tracking the "small unmanned aviation system industry"we read about the possibility of drone aircraft being used to enforce residential property tax.
Citing a recent court ruling in Arkansas that "has approved the use of aerial imagery to collect data on property sizes," and making reference to the already-controversial state deployment of aerial surveillance tools, sUAS suggests that drones could someday be used to manage a near-realtime catalog of local property expansions, transfers, and other tax-relevant land alterations.
Whether enforcing local building codeskeeping an eye, for instance, on illegally built structures such as the so-called Achill Henge in Irelandor reconciling on-the-ground property lines with their administrative representations back in the city land archives, how soon will drones become a state tool for regional landscape management?
"Imagine your local planning officer having access to your back garden at a moment's notice!" sUAS writes with alarm. "With the pullback from Iraq and other spots under way, this scenario is much easier to imagine. Perhaps it's already happening."
Citing a recent court ruling in Arkansas that "has approved the use of aerial imagery to collect data on property sizes," and making reference to the already-controversial state deployment of aerial surveillance tools, sUAS suggests that drones could someday be used to manage a near-realtime catalog of local property expansions, transfers, and other tax-relevant land alterations.
Whether enforcing local building codeskeeping an eye, for instance, on illegally built structures such as the so-called Achill Henge in Irelandor reconciling on-the-ground property lines with their administrative representations back in the city land archives, how soon will drones become a state tool for regional landscape management?
"Imagine your local planning officer having access to your back garden at a moment's notice!" sUAS writes with alarm. "With the pullback from Iraq and other spots under way, this scenario is much easier to imagine. Perhaps it's already happening."
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