The use UAVs, including Drones to capture data are increasing. Universities recognized the demand on the skills and offer the programs for UAV/drone pilot and data processing.
We recently brought the topic ”Teaching with Drones” into higher education web meeting, with three speakers:
Dr. Wing Cheung; Professor of Geography and the co-founder of the drone technology program at Palomar College; Coordinator of the Geographic Information Science as well as the Environmental Studies programs; Principal Investigator of the NSF funded UAS operations technical education project (UASTEP). In his presentation, he covered: why do drone operations need to know GIS, idea for integrating drone data into GIS classes, impacts on the student careers and lingering challenges.
Resources:
Dr. Bo Yang is an Interdisciplinary Post-doctoral Scholar at University of Central Florida and the UAV research lead in the Citizen Science GIS group; currently co-leading with Dr. Timothy Hawthorne an NSF collaborative coastal mapping project for UAV remote sensing and GIS analysis, with the components of public participatory GIS, UAV training, and community outreach. In his presentation, he shared the experience running this research project, and be able to continue the project even during the pandemic
Resources:
Cody Benkelman is a Product Manager on the Imagery Team at Esri; focuses on imagery, lidar, and video, and specifically on 2D and 3D products from drone imagery. In his presentation, he talked about the latest updates on Esri technology in regard to drone data processing that applicable for teaching and research.
Resources:
- Free version of Site Scan Flight app at http://esriurl.com/SSEE
- ArcGIS Drone2Map
- Site Scan for ArcGIS
- Ortho Mapping within ArcGIS Pro
The recording and slide decks from this web meeting are now available.
Need more information? please contact highered@esri.com
