In the August 2020 Power of Local webinar, Ghana Flying Labs provides programmatic updates.

1. The Power of Local
Building aid, health, development and environmental
solutions by sustainably localizing robotics technologies

2. Prince Lawson
Flying Labs Coordinator
Ghana@flyinglabs

3. Origin of Ghana Flying Labs
It took just one conversation with a member of team Cameroon Flying Labs to peak Francis
Owusu’s interest in launching our own Flying Labs in Ghana.
Ghana Flying Labs was established in September 2019.
Francis Owusu
SKT AEROSHUTTER
CEO

4. Self Introduction
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Prince Lartey Lawson
Teaching Assistant
Geomatic Engineer
Pilot Technician
GFL Coordinator

5. The Power of Local
Our Main Goals
Ghana Flying Labs shares WeRobotics’ philosophy of
sustainable technological innovations implemented at the local
level, and the power of sharing and transferring that
knowledge to others through workshops and training missions.
Our Flying Labs main goal dwells on facilitating in researches
and discovering innovative techniques of using drones to
develop solutions to social challenges

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Our Area of Expertise
With a formidable team of Aerospace, Electrical,
Geological and Geomatic Engineers our expertise
spans in the following fields:
• Photogrammetry
• Remote Sensing
• Geographic Information System
• Robotics
• Research

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Our Project This Year
Mapping Research Facilities as
part of the COVID-19 Response
Ghana Flying Labs has undertaken a number of projects in its 1st year of commencement. Some
are rooted in the fields of:
• Academia
• COVID-19 Response
• Wildlife Conservation
• Agriculture
• Disaster management
Project with
the broadest
impact

8. The Power of Local
Mapping Research Facilities as part of the
COVID-19 Response

9. Graduate Training Program
Ghana Flying Labs facilitated a 17 graduates capacity building
program.
This involved training these graduates and equipping them with the
relevant know-how on assembling and operating a drone to map and
apply agricultural input. The training lasted a month and all 17 trained
personnel are in a agreement with SKT Aeroshutter to avail
themselves whenever there is a project that required more pilots.
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10. The Power of Local
Achievement of the Year
Achievements worth mentioning this year mainly goes to the following:
• The 17 personnel from our graduate training program.
• The successful counting of the Bui Hippos Project.
• We developed a technical model for flood risk analysis

11. The Power of Local
WHAT’S NEXT?
Ghana Flying Labs is looking forward to a stronger partnership with more industries as well as academic and
research industries
Such as:
We are also looking forward to expanding our workshops to share technical know how in some of these
industries where it is essentially needed.

12. THANK YOU
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