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What is an UAV?

UAS or UAV? Or maybe a drone?

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UAS: Unmanned Aircraft System

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Consists of three elements:

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Consists of three elements:

  1. Unmanned Aircraft
  2. Control Station
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    UAS: Unmanned Aircraft System

    UAS or UAV? Or maybe a drone?

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    Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

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    • UAV = Unmanned Aerial Vehicle -
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      • Excludes: missiles, weapons, or exploding warheads,
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      • Includes: all classes of airplanes, helicopters, airships, and powered-lift aircraft,
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      • Doesn’t include: traditional balloons, rockets, tethered aircraft, and un-powered gliders.
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    • Excludes: missiles, weapons, or exploding warheads,
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    • Includes: all classes of airplanes, helicopters, airships, and powered-lift aircraft,
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    • Doesn’t include: traditional balloons, rockets, tethered aircraft, and un-powered gliders.

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    Generic Unmanned Aircraft System

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    Sensors

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    Sensors

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    sUAS sensors for mapping

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    UAS sensors for mapping

    • RGB cameras
    • Infrared sensors
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      Multispectral and hyperspectral cameras

    • Miniaturization is challenging in terms of optics and sensor calibration
    • Weight, cost, data quality has improved; spectral bands, resolution need improvements
    • Cameras with NIR band: agriculture and vegetation mapping (for NDVI)
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    • The more bands the more information, but also higher price of the sensor (multispectral - couple thousands, hyperspectral - tens of thousands $)
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    • The more bands the more information, but also higher price of the sensor +
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      • $$ multispectral - couple thousands
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      • $$$ hyperspectral - tens of thousands
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Sensor and platform integration

Who uses UAS?

Types of UAV Operations

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Types of UAS Operations

  • Public Operations
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    Know before you fly

    What are UAS used for?

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Army and government

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Army and Government

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  • Public Use Aircraft +
    • Department of Agriculture
    • Department of Commerce
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      Army and government

    • NOAA
    • State Universities
    • State Law Enforcement
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Civilian Application Fields

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Application examples (1)

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Application Examples (1)

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  • Agriculture: +
  • Agriculture:
    • UAS equipped with fertilizer and pesticide dispersing equipment can be used to spray over large fields;
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  • Telecommunications: +
  • Telecommunications:
    • As mobile relay platforms, e.g., in disaster zones for emergency telecommunications
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    Application examples (1)

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Application examples (2)

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Application Examples (2)

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  • News broadcasting: +
  • News Broadcasting:
    • In providing aerial video feeds for news events;
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  • Air traffic Control and ground traffic control: +
  • Air Traffic Control and Ground Traffic Control:
    • To monitor traffic and accidents over highways and streets, capture violation of traffic rules;
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    Application examples (2)

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Application examples (3)

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Application Examples (3)

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  • Mineral exploration: +
  • Mineral Exploration:
    • In aerial survey, to find minerals in hard-to-reach regions;
    • In existing mines, to map extracted material volumes;
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  • Coastal monitoring: +
  • Coastal Monitoring:
    • Mapping dynamic shorelines and post-storm assessment
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    UAS for Remote Sensing (1)

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    • Agriculture and environment: +
    • Agriculture and Environment:
      • Crop monitoring, vegetation mapping, forest fire monitoring, animals detection;
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    • Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance: +
    • Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance:
      • Detection of lost persons in difficult-to-access situations, support fire brigades in real-time crisis management, rapid disaster management;
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      UAS for Remote Sensing (1)

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UAS for Remote Sensing (2)

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  • Aerial monitoring in engineering: +
  • Aerial Monitoring in Engineering:
    • Infrastructure inspections, distributed wind measurement, landslide monitoring;
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  • Cultural heritage: +
  • Cultural Heritage:
    • Orthophotos of archaeological sites, 3D models of man-made structures;
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    UAS for Remote Sensing (2)

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UAS for Remote Sensing (3)

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  • General surveying, mapping, and photogrammetry, cadastral applications: +
  • General surveying, mapping, and photogrammetry, cadastral applications:
    • Cadastral surveying, alternative to traditional surveying, high-precision parcel boundary determination;
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    Why should you know how to use UAS?

    Barriers

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    • constantly changing legislation and regulations,
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    • political and societal acceptance,
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    • … what do you consider a barrier in UAS development? What obstacles do you see for yourself as a potential UAS user?
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    • Constantly changing legislation and regulations
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    • Political and societal acceptance
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    … what do you consider a barrier in UAS development? What obstacles do you see for yourself as a potential UAS user?