A drone equipped with a thermal imaging device has found a missing 3-year-old child in an enormous cornfield, making headlines.
CNN and other sources reported on the sixth (local time) that police in Rock County, Wisconsin, USA rescued a baby from a cornfield measuring 400,000 square meters (㎡), or about 120,000 pyeong, just 2 hours after he was reported missing.
In line with this, on the twenty fifth of last month, the parents reported to the police that the kid had entered the cornfield behind the home.
The kid was last seen around 7:30 p.m. Police decided it was inconceivable to go looking the tall cornfield in the midst of the night, in order that they deployed a special drone equipped with a thermal imaging camera.
Consequently, at around 9:30 p.m., the drone detected a heat source in the midst of a cornfield and safely rescued the kid 16 minutes later. The kid was found 800 meters away from the home.
The kid was said to have chased the cat right into a cornfield. Police also said that without the thermal imaging drone, it could have taken hours to go looking the whole scene and the outcomes might have been different.
“We’re glad the child was found protected,” said Rock County Sheriff’s Deputy Alex Bloom. “If we hadn’t had the special equipment, something really bad could have happened.”
Reporter Im Dae-jun ydj@aitimes.com
