In this lab, you will generate a point cloud and an orthophoto from photos captured during one of my UAV flights last November. You will use the LiDAR toolset in Global Mapper to generate a bare ground “terrain” model and a “surface” model (includes trees, stumps, buildings, etc). ——————————————————————————— Create […]
FANR5640/7640
Weather Info, See: FAA Remote Pilot – Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Study Guide (Chapter 3a & 3b) Drone U Part 107 Drone Certificate Study Guide (Section III, p83…) FAA UAS Test Study Guide by Kelsey Mason (see Weather Theory Stuff section) Weather notes… These are topics that will appear […]
Study Guide Notes
Lab 01 follow-up… I’ve stored my Lab 01 document HERE. Those of you with your laptop and ArcGIS installed, download the file then double-click to open my ArcMap project. For your reference, an ArcGIS map package (MPK) is essentially a complete GIS project – it is an ArcMap-readable compressed file […]
Lab01 Review… Object-Based Image Classification (OBIA)
Unmanned Aerial Systems in Natural Resource Management Syllabus Know Before You Fly Software: 7Zip (Installer Download Site) ArcGIS Desktop (send me an email request for 1-year student license) RQGIS (R Package Page) (Install Instructions – use advanced installation) Grab the latest QGIS 2x version, Python 2.7x, gdal, Orfeo Toolbox, SAGA […]
Drones Lecture 01: Course Overview & Setup
Download Lab Data Files Here 3-dimensional surface model from iPhone 6 video (Autodesk ReCap Pro 2018) In this lab, we will take a look at a ground-based approach of generating a 3 dimensional surface model. First we will consider the Warnell wood pile example. However neat you think this output may be, […]
FANR5640/7640: Lab 1 – Ground-based 3D model of Warnell Woodpile ...
Photo Info CSV I have over three years of drone photos stored on my computer. Unfortunately, I have not kept track of when/where/why I have flown. I do, however, have only a handful of directories in which I have saved these photos. I need to search specific directories on […]
FANR5640/7640: Lecture 21 – It is Friday. Or maybe it ...
FORS 5640/7640 Final Exam When: May 2, 2018, from 12 – 3 (if you have a conflict, please let me know as soon as possible) Where: In the GIS Lab Format: Closed book/Closed note; multiple choice Don’t forget upload your Remote Pilot 101 Quiz 1 – 9 […]
FANR5640/7640: Lecture 20 – It’s Friday, again.
Mission planning for vertical surfaces Ground Control Software I will give a short demonstration of four common (DJI-based) ground control software: DJI GO 4, GS Pro, Map Pilot, and Pix4Dcapture. For the most part, flight planning with these software is completed on site, in the field. Agisoft Photoscan I have been […]
FANR5640/7640: Lab 11 – Ground Control Software / Agisoft Photoscan ...
There are quite a few ground control software options available for both IOS and Android. Most DJI pilots will use the DJI Go app when first learning how to operate their aircraft manually. Its functionality is limited, however, for those wanting to perform autonomous missions. For these types […]
FANR5640/7640 – Ground Control Software (DJI GSPro, Map Pilot, Pix4Dcapture)
Lab 10: Coarse woody debris volume remaining after harvest [Excerpt from Brian Davis’ 2017 thesis,”REFINEMENT OF A DRONE-BASED METHOD FOR ESTIMATING COARSE WOODY DEBRIS AND BIOMASS RESIDUE FOLLOWING FOREST HARVEST”] "… Pine forests of the southern US are a major source of woody debris residues used for bioenergy (Milbrandt 2005). […]