UAV (aka drone) Forensics 1 Who Am I David Kovar 15+ years of SAR experience • Fixed wing and rotor pilot • Big 4: • Cyber security investigator - Incident response consultant - Senior manager - 2 3 Why Is This Relevant? 4 Market Growth and Jobs ‣ CEA forecasts the global market for consumer drones will approach $300 million by 2018 on factory-to-dealer sales of just under a million units. This marks a strong increase over CEA’s forecast for 2014 of $84 million in global revenues on sales of 250,000 units. ‣ AUVSI’s The Economic Impact of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration in the United States report shows the economic benefit of UAS integration. AUVSI’s findings show that in the first three years of integration more than 70,000 jobs will be created in the United States with an economic impact of more than $13.6 billion. This benefit will grow through 2025 when we foresee more than 100,000 jobs created and economic impact of $82 billion. ‣ 10,000 DJI Phantoms sold each week. 5 Illegal and inappropriate activity ‣ Drug delivery over US/Mexico border ‣ Drug and weapon delivery to prison ‣ Multiple invasions of privacy ‣ Flight above crowds and in controlled airspace ‣ Flight into operators and bystanders 6 What You Do? ‣ Are you in Law Enforcement? ‣ Agriculture? ‣ Real estate? ‣ Mining? ‣ Oil and Gas? ‣ Insurance? ‣ Journalism? ‣ … 7 Anti-drone solutions ‣ RF fingerprinting ‣ Jamming ‣ Geo-fencing and no fly zones ‣ Tangle-drone – Drops net over drone ‣ Shotguns ‣ Debris and game jerseys 8 Terminology ‣ UAS – Unmanned Aerial System – Emphasis on system ‣ UAV – Unmanned Aerial Vehicle – The aircraft portion of the system ‣ GCS – Ground Control Station – The flight control portion of the system. May include manual and automatic control features ‣ Data link – radio system to transmit data to and from the UAV. Often used for telemetry, sensor data, and FPV operation ‣ Drone – Common term for any UAV but most often used to describe quads and other multirotor UAVs ‣ FPV – First Person View – technology that enables the operator to fly the UAV from the perspective of the UAV 9 Drone Forensics – High Altitude View 10
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