Advanced Mapping with Drones

Catalog description

The course includes an overview of the basic knowledge required for passing the FAA Part 107 Remote Pilots Knowledge Test for small UAS operators, including UAS mapping technology and its rules and regulations, airspace classification, and reading aeronautical charts. More advanced data collection strategies are introduced, as well as the theoretical concepts in mapping, photogrammetry, and surveying. Advanced data processing techniques and the use multiple types of data to achieve survey objectives. Accuracy of the derived products. Credit will not be given for both this course and Geo Eng 4321 Prerequisites: Geo Eng 3148 or Geo Eng 5146 or Instructor approval. (Co-listed with Geo Eng 6321).