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03/19/2024
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Pacific Time
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, commonly referred to as drones, have been increasing in popularity over the last few years for surveying, photo/video capture, and digitizing data of environmental conditions from stream bottoms to treetops. This tool has provided unprecedented and customized landscape level views and analyses to a large range of environmental professionals and technicians. The quality and value of the end products have increased efficiency of field work by allowing large perspectives of the land from which selected areas may be investigated on foot.
In Drone Applications in Environmental Surveying we will explore several models of drones and their applications in today’s environmental field work. Topics covered will include:
- An overview of models of drones
- Some of the important regulations regarding drone use around the world
- Setting up flights, capturing data, and processing the data for powerful use of the derived information
From here application of drones to some environmental surveying uses will be explored; these include: forestry, mineral extraction, gravel pits, stream assessments, and potentially wildlife as well.
Course will be 4 hours long.