In the frame of IGARSS 2021 a three-day summer school will be organized from July 6-8, 2021. The summer school will be dedicated to drone based remote sensing and will include a very practical training where data collection campaign, technical lessons, demo by service and drone providers and hands-on exercises will be combined.
If you are a young researcher, entrepreneur or student who has interest in drone based remote sensing technology, this programme is for you.
The summer school will take place at DronePort. A unique campus and training site dedicated to drones.
Experts from VITO Remote Sensing and the CISS of the Royal Military Academy and the University of Ghent in Belgium will provide the training and will help you to get started with drone-based remote sensing. Specifically, the following insights will be provided:
A more detailed programme can be found below.
Subscribe now and join us for three days of learning, training & fascination! And be able to network with your future peers.
Location: Droneport
08:30 – 12:00
Registration and Introduction:
Theory session 1: Platforms
Hands-on session 1: Data acquisition
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 – 16:00
Demo 1: Demonstration of different drone systems
Demo 2: Mission planning, calibration and quality check
For this demo session, the group will be split up into several smaller teams, each which are assigned a drone pilot to. Each team can collect data for different use cases (phenotyping, precision agriculture, forestry,...)
Location: Droneport
08:30 – 12:00
Theory session 2: Sensors and imaging data
Demo 3: Demonstration of different camera setups
Hands-on 2: Data processing
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 – 16:00
Theory session 3: Ground truth measurements
Demo 4: Ground truth – rotation between small 4 groups
Hands on 3: preparation of the field campaign
Location: Droneport
08:30 – 17:00
A lunch break will be scheduled depending on the course of the day
Hands on 4: Validation of materials, description, calibration
Demo 5: Field campaign
Hands on 5: Data handling and summary