Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Agriculture

Lectures

• Lesson 1: Introductory Concepts and Definitions (aerial photography and EMS)

• Lesson 2: Cartographic GIS - technologies, types

• Lesson 3: Cartographic Flight Planning

• Lesson 4: Flight Preparation

• Lesson 5: Flight Execution

• Lesson 6: Image Processing Software

• Lesson 7: Crop monitoring EMS

• Lesson 8: Drone sprayers - technologies, types

• Lesson 9: Spray applications and legal framework

• Lesson 10: Application cases - arable crop mapping

• Lesson 11: Application cases - permanent crop mapping

• Lesson 12: Application cases - camera and height selection

• Lesson 13: Application cases - herbicide and disease sprays

LABORATORY EXERCISES

• Exercise 1: Familiarization with different types of EMS

• Exercise 2: Planning and execution of a flight with a cartographic UAV

• Exercise 3: CMM image editor to create a cartographic background

• Exercise 4: Take photos and videos with a drone

• Exercise 5: Prepare and perform drone spraying