Beware low flying drones

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Sanctuary S
Sanctuary Aug 14, 2014 10:16:49
Replying to moss

moss wrote:
Interesting. Given Chris/Scubi's delightful panorama over Silbury with his drone camera, taking to the air is catching on.....

"University of Leicester to explore the potential use of drones in archaeology;"

"How could drones help archaeologists better understand the heritage landscape? A new project at the University of Leicester is about to try and find out".


http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art494418-University-of-Leicester-to-explore-the-potential-use-of-drones-in-archaeology

And if they do catch on in archaeology the next step will be to make it illegal for Joe Public to do the same anywhere near a Scheduled Monument no doubt.

S scubi63
scubi63 Aug 14, 2014 18:26:36
Replying to Sanctuary

I can't see how they would be able to police that one Roy as they can't currently stop people climbing Silbury or MDing SAM's and that takes a whole lot longer than a quick flight over a monument from the edge of a field.
I have a tracker on mine and I could potentially land it almost anywhere and then go pick it up later.

Also I can't see how they could get away with claiming ownership the sky above a SAM. However they may get away with on some sort of health and safety grounds if it is a busy site such as Avebury or Stonehenge.

Didn't EH try to claim all photo's of Stonehenge belonged to them a while back or was that just media hype?

:)