Unmanned airborne vehicle photogrammetry in practice

Overview

Using drones in a scientific project is a lot more complicated than just taking some images. Beside some basic remote sensing knowledge, you need technical and practical skills to complete a successful flight mission. This course is designed to teach you the basics in one day and gives you all the information to plan and execute your own mission.

Learning Objectives

• Principles of unmanned airborne vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry
• Learn how to plan and execute a drone flight mission
• Understand the raw data processing workflow and its output data
• Analyze data products like ortho and multispectral images

Course Content

• Basics of airborne photogrammetry
• Technical characteristics of drones and optical sensors
• Mission planning
• Flight mission on a forest site next to the UBT campus
• Postprocessing and data analysis

Teaching Style

Classroom teaching and on field site exercises (drone flight mission)

Registration

By e-mail to:oliver.archner@uni-bayreuth.de