Geospatial Applications for Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)
Unmanned Aerial Systems are developing aggressively, and many government and non-government agencies are considering acquiring such systems. The acquisition of a system may be the easy part of the entire process of running an UAS. However, selecting the right system and providing details of running and managing the system may prove to be challenging for an ordinary user that does not possess prior knowledge in this field. There is quite a large amount of information now available on the UAS. However, most of such information focuses on either the engineering aspect of the aircraft or its defense applications. Very little information is available on the geo-spatial utilization of a UAS.
Course goals:
Unmanned Aerial Systems are developing aggressively, and many government and non-government agencies are considering acquiring such systems. The acquisition of a system may be the easy part of the entire process of running an UAS. However, selecting the right system and providing details of running and managing the system may prove to be challenging for an ordinary user that does not possess prior knowledge in this field. There is quite a large amount of information now available on the UAS. However, most of such information focuses on either the engineering aspect of the aircraft or its defense applications. Very little information is available on the geo-spatial utilization of a UAS.
Course goals:
- Cultivates students' knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of the UAS and data post-processing systems.
- Understand fundamental concepts surrounding operating a UAS such as
- Selecting the right UAS
- Assess its performance
- Manage resulting products,
- Selecting the appropriate commercially available processing software
- Products accuracy assessment
- Ways and means to produce metric products from UAS