SkySkopes Leads North Dakota's UAS Coalition Developing Mission Sets Against COVID-19

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - April 28, 2020 - PRLog -- SkySkopes is leading a coalition of some of the most reputable UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) entities in the world to fight COVID-19. UAS missions have been successfully executed over the last week and includes organizations such as the University of North Dakota, the UND Center for Innovation, the UND RIAS, and L3Harris. Having informed the North Dakota Office of the Governor and the Unified Command led by North Dakota's Adjutant General, SkySkopes also notified state and local health officials and the ND Department of Emergency Services. As a partnership across multiple universities in North Dakota such as NDSU, the operation is also a collaboration with Grand Forks County and Emergency Managers in an example of a Public-Public-Private Partnership.

SkySkopes is a professional Drone Service Provider focused on bringing innovative solutions to the energy sector. The company is one of the top five Drone Service companies in the world.

"We have some high-tech ways that can help slow the spread of the coronavirus. Right here in North Dakota we consider ourselves to be a leader in unmanned aerial systems across the nation, and SkySkopes, a UAS company in Grand Forks, is helping with answering the coronavirus question. They have some great examples of great innovation of how UAS can be used in health components. I want to thank all of those who are in this example of public-private partnership innovation." North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum said in his press conference recently.

This mission set has been reviewed Dr. Parag Kumar M.D., a clinical professor and North Dakota physician with a background in national pandemic response, and he finds the mission sets of real value to North Dakota and the United States.

"This is one of the most socially responsible reasons I have seen to have used commercial UAS," said Matt Dunlevy, President and CEO of SkySkopes. "This UAS coalition has joined forces with great conviction and magnitude. They've come together to fly a set of advanced missions never before flown in concert, and it all just so happens to be real world. It is one of the most remarkable things I've seen in the world of UAS. This is what we've trained for over half a decade, and it just so happened that we were flying beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) for disaster relief for the Grand Forks flood at the same time."  SkySkopes' pilots, some of the most highly certified and experienced in the world, have been testing spraying disinfecting fluids using UAS onto facilities such as playgrounds so as to prevent children gathering there from contracting any instances of COVID-19 lingering on surfaces.

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