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Dr Jacqueline Rosette is a member of the Geography Department at Swansea University.
Dr Jacqueline Rosette is a member of the Geography Department at Swansea University.
This Module teaches the flight skills, legislative and regulatory requirements for operating a drone in the UK. Students will gain an overview of the advantages and limitations of different types of drone; opportunities offered by high resolution user-captured remote sensing data; and environmental applications for drones. Much of the teaching is practice-based and students will develop the knowledge, safety awareness and flight experience required to undertake assessment for the Civil Aviation Authority GVC (General Visual Line of Sight Certificate). Students will therefore graduate with the additional CAA GVC drone pilot accreditation, comprising theoretical training and written graded test, and flight training and assessment. This Module will be delivered in partnership with a CAA registered and authorised training provider. The externally-delivered syllabus comprises: Drone Airspace Operating Regulations; Airmanship and Aviation Safety; Air Law and Responsibilities; Meteorology; Navigation and Aviation Charts; Human Factors; Aircraft Knowledge; Operating Procedures. Together with the CAA accreditation, an internal University assignment and an assessed portfolio will ultimately determine successful completion of this Module. This Module is a prerequisite of GEGM09 Drone Remote Sensing and GEGM03C Environmental Drone Remote Sensing Dissertation.
This module offers the opportunity to undertake a major individual research project in the field of Environmental Drone Remote Sensing. Support is provided by a staff supervisor and through student-led discussions. There will also be an opportunity to give constructive feedback to other students undertaking related research projects, learning from their research problems and their subsequent solutions. Provisional research results will be communicated verbally (in July and August). The final results of the thesis will be presented as the scientific paper of a leading international journal in the same field of research.
This module will teach students to plan, capture and process their own high-resolution datasets using multispectral, thermal and RGB sensors on board drone platforms. Students will learn the principles of photography applied to drone imagery, including multi-spectral analysis, and extended to 3D perception and stereo imagery analysis. Next, this knowledge will be related to image capture from a moving platform, and the effect of flight parameters. This knowledge will then be used to inform flight mission planning for a range of environmental monitoring applications. Students will apply and be tested in the skills learnt for real-world needs through three assessed project assignments, demonstrating application of multi-spectral, thermal and 3D structure data.