Three mini-drones deployed by the UN for emergency relief

(B2) The United Nations satellite office (UNOSAT) confirmed this last week. It will acquire three drones for its emergency or civil rescue operations. The first will arrive by the end of 2011, ordered from the Swiss firm Swinglet CAM, the second is ordered for 2012 while the purchase of a third is planned for 2013. rescue, for example to install a "wireless internet" relay and thus create a Wifi zone that rescue teams could use. Result of more than a year of research and experimental tests, these mini-drones are quite different from the drones used by the military (Predator or others). They are very light - less than one kilogram - and small in size - 80 cms. They can only stay in the air for 30 minutes and are therefore more intended to collect images or evolve over a small area. An idea for the Europeans?...