Sarus Humanitarian Aerospace and the Sentinel Project have been conducting ongoing research into the impacts and value of unmanned aerial systems in the humanitarian and development fields. This has most recently culminated in the comprehensive research document, Unmanned Aerial Systems for Development and Humanitarianism in the Global South – A Survey of Applications and Policies which we encourage you to read.
We have also been researching and writing about humanitarian aerospace for over five years, being one of the early advocates for unmanned aerial systems in the development field: