Cost Action FP1406 PINESTRENGTH
Training School on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Applications & Forestry 

The Training School will provide the principles and essential knowledge required for safe operations of the latest cutting edge UAS for scientific environmental applications mainly focused in forestry. This will include meeting with pre-fight procedures and calibrations, development of basic flight skills in real flight conditions, use of a wide range of sensors for drone-based remote sensing in a variety of scientific applications and practice of open-source state-of-the-art software for flight planning and post-flight process of imagery data. 

Schedule:

01/04/19 (Theory & Practice)

  i) UAS (General Principles)

     - Safe Operations / Legislation - Meteorology

     - Aeronautics

     - Human Factor

  ii) Drone Lab

     - Tour / Anatomy of a UAV

     - UAVs / Sensors / Batteries

     - Small Drone Flights for Practice

02/04/19 (Theory & Practice)

  i) UAS Applications Case Studies

  ii) Flight Planning - Procedures

     - SW

  iii) Real UAV Flight Practice

03/04/19 (Field Work)

  i) Field Trip Mission: UAV Operations over Forest

  ii) Sightseeing excursion, Dinner

04/04/19 (Theory)

  i) Derivatives

     Intro in Orthophoto Mapping, DSM Creation, Indices Calculation etc

  ii) Field trip's Post-Flight Process

     - Ortho & 3D DSM Production

     - Volumes Calculation

     - Vegetation Indices Calculation

     - Other RS/GIS Applications in Forestry