Fundamentals of Unmanned Aerial Systems and Image Analysis

Catalog description

This course prepares students with essential understanding and skills related to the appropriate and legal use of UAS systems to plan and perform drone-related missions to properly collect, manage, analyze, and visualize imagery data. Basic FAA UAS flight and safety procedures are studied. Students will become familiar with basic drone components, operations, and use for data acquisition. The course covers the use of GIS and flight management software for flight planning, image processing, and visualization. Image classification and analysis assignments include the use of basic Machine Learning modules for supervised and unsupervised image classification and object extraction. This course will prepare students to take the FAA Part 107 (b) Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems License exam. Course materials and assignments will also prepare students to meet emerging UAS workforce needs.