First Annual UA Drone Day

March 23, 2022 at The University of Arizona

Overview

The objective of Drone Day is to bring together and build a community of people at and around UA who are using or interested in using unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs) in research and other academic activities.

This will be an opportunity to share research problems and opportunities, discuss tools and protocols, and learn about local resources.

The first drone day will include a morning of talks, lunch, and an afternoon at Bear Down field to show equipment and fly drones.

Registration

  • register to attend
  • submit a talk (Deadline Monday March 21, only title is required)
  • request to display equipment
  • request to fly your drone over Bear Down Field (license required)

Agenda

Morning: Talks and Discussion

 

Location: Weaver Science-Engineering Library Room 212
8:30

Start
  • Get Coffee and Treats
  • Socialize
  • Mill about
8:45 Welcome

David LeBauer, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
9:00 Keynote
"Drones Now and In the Future: Challenges and Opportunities"
Kamel Didan, Department of Biosystems Engineering,
9:30 Research Talks
Time Speaker Affiliation Title
9:30 Herb Wagner Risk Management Services A Message from the Director of Occupational and Environmental Health & Safety at UA
9:45 Michael McKisson School of Journalism Drone Journalism and FAA Licensing 
10:00

Jeffrey Gillan, Kyle Hartfield, Wim van Leeuwen, Kangsan Lee, Chloe Peck

 Arizona Remote Sensing Center Multi-scale remote sensing for applied research and civil applications
10:15 Omar Youssef School of Architecture Drones in Architecture
10:30 Charles Revello Wyant College of Optical Sciences Large Area Coverage Using Drone Mounted Multi-Camera Arrays
10:45 Hossein Rastgoftar Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Continuum Deformation Approaches to Large Scale UAS Coordination and Traffic Management
11:00 Adam Lisberg DJI DJI Drones In Scientific Research: What You Need To Know Now
11:15

Brett Carr, Christopher Hamilton

 Lunar and Planetary Laboratory Drones at Volcanoes: New perspectives for science and hazards
11:30 Jeff Czapla-Myers Wyant College of Optical Sciences UAS Field Use in Support of Earth-Observing Sensor Calibration
11:45

Joshua Follansbee, Lindsey Wiley, Patrick Leslie, Charles Revello, Ronald Driggers

 Wyant College of Optical Sciences Drone Detection in the Reflective Bands: VIS, NIR, SWIR, and eSWIR
12:00 Diaa Eldin Elshikha, Douglas J. Hunsaker, Peter M. Waller, Kelly R. Thorp, David Dierig, Guangyao Wang, Von Mark V. Cruz, Matthew E. Katterman, Kevin F. Bronson, Gerard W. Wall, Alison L. Thompson Department of Biosystems Engineering Evaluation of guayule cover, crop coefficient, and yield using UAS-based multispectral data
12:15 Joe Wagner Flood Control District of Maricopa County Drone Mapping of Cave Creek Dam

Lunch
12:30 Lunch provided for contributors, and others as supplies allow. Sign up in the morning.

Afternoon Fly and Equipment Demo

Location: Bear Down Field
1:00ish

Drone Fly
  • All pilots need to fill out this form by Monday March 21st 
  • Non-UA affiliates need to provide certificate of insurance
3:00 Wrap Up  

Funding Provided by The University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

When

8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 23, 2022

Where

Science and Engineering Library (Morning) and Bear Down Field (Afternoon)

Event Contacts

Chris Schnaufer
schnaufer@arizona.edu