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Overview
This year we are continuing to build on our tradition by hosting the 3rd annual Drone Day event! Drone Day is when we bring everyone together at and around University of Arizona who are using or interested in using unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs) in research and other academic activities. See The Wildcat article about last year's event!
This will be an opportunity to share research problems and opportunities, discuss tools and protocols, and learn about local resources.
Drone Day will include a morning of talks and discussion, and lunch, followed by drone demonstrations at Bear Down field (near to the meeting room building). The morning talks will be VIRTUAL-FRIENDLY, so feel free to register for just that portion if you would like to present or watch along!
Registration
- register to attend
- submit a talk your would like to give (Deadline Wednesday March 13, only title is required)
- indicate interest in flying your drones, or just bringing them to show them off
Agenda
Morning: Talks and Discussion
Location: Main Library Room B254
8:30 am - 9 am: coffee and chat
9:00 am - 12:30 pm: presentations, each followed by 10 minutes for discussion per speaker
| Time | Speaker & Co-Authors | affiliation | title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:40 | Tyson Swetnam | Institute for Computation & Data-Enabled Insight | Keynote: No Country for Old Drones |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Dean Riley, Isabel Barton | Mining and Geological Engineering | Hyperspectral sensors for mining collected on a UAS |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Brett Carr, Christopher Hamilton, Nathan Hadland, Matt Varnam, Joana Voight | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory | Evaluating the use of unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) for planetary surface exploration in analog terrain |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Roberto Aguilar, Tyler M. Meng, Michael S. Christoffersen, Stefano Nerozzi, John W. Holt | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory | Retrieving subsurface properties of Mars-analog glaciers with drone-based GPR |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | break | ||
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Cindy Norton, Flurin Babst, Willem Van Leeuwen | Arizona Remote Sensing Center, SNRE | Terrestrial, UAS LiDAR and Tree Rings for Forest Productivity |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Jeffrey Gillan, Tyson Swetnam | Data Science Institute | Data Management in the Drone Age |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | James McNabb | Geotechnical Center of Excellence | Modeling Surface Hydrology for Hazard Mitigation in Open Pit Mines Using High-Resolution Drone Photogrammetry |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Kristina Riemer & Chris Schnaufer | Communications & Cyber Technologies Data Science Team | Discussion: What do you want the future of the Tucson drone community to look like? |
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: lunch (provided for all registered attendees)
Afternoon: Fly and Equipment Demo
Location: Bear Down Field
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm: drones at Bear Down field
Funding Provided by The University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences