Drones don’t just leave behind broken wings or drained batteries when they reach the end of their service life—they leave behind something far more valuable: data. Terabytes of it. From high-resolution imagery to thermal maps, LiDAR sweeps, multispectral scans, and GPS breadcrumbs, drones are quietly amassing one of the richest libraries of environmental intelligence in human history. The question is: What are we doing with it? Where We Are Now: Data's One-Way Street Today, t

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