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Ag Drone School

Dalhousie University
Halifax , Canada
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Agricultural Technology
Area of study
Information and Communication Technologies | Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries
Education type
On campus
Course Language
English
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Program Overview

Program Overview

The Ag Drone School is a program offered by the Faculty of Agriculture, Extended Learning, in collaboration with Landview Drones. This program deals with the productive, safe, and legal use of remotely piloted aerial systems by farmers and agronomists.


Course Description

The Ag Drone School is suitable for all experience levels, from teenagers to retired agronomists, and from government environmental agency staff to ag-tech entrepreneurs. Participants do not need to have a drone, as only about a quarter of attendees already have a remote piloted aircraft system (RPAS). The program covers every aspect of ag drone use, from the first takeoff to completely autonomous mapping in two days.


Course Outline

The course outline includes:


  • Fly Safely:
    • Flight training suitable for complete beginners
    • From first takeoff to autonomous mapping
    • Learn to fly using the fleet of drones
  • Fly Legally:
    • Basic RPAS ground school: air law, drone systems, theory of flight, human factors, meteorology, navigation, and maintenance
    • Take the Transport Canada online test and leave with the Basic Pilot's Certificate
  • Save Time & Make Money:
    • Two full days of hands-on learning, flight practice, and real-world farm and ranch uses
    • Beyond pretty pictures and video, learn how to create accurate hi-res maps of fields
    • Introduction to spraying or cover-crop spreading
    • Demystifying the remote-sensing jargon: NDVI, multispectral, thermal, LiDAR

What You Will Learn

Topics covered include:


  • Introduction to Remote Sensing of Vegetation
  • NDVI and other vegetative indexes
  • Data accuracy: sensor types and calibration
  • Future of crop imaging: hyperspec, thermal, machine learning
  • From fly to apply: software workflows
  • Use cases: the many uses of drones on farms
  • Knowledge Requirements for Small Basic Operations:
    • Air law, air traffic rules and procedures
    • RPAS airframes, power plants, propulsion and systems
    • Human factors
    • Meteorology
    • Navigation
    • Flight operations
    • Theory of flight
    • Radiotelephony
    • Introduction to spraying by drones

Instructors

The program is taught by experienced instructors, including:


  • Robin Harrison, who brings over 20 years of agricultural sector experience and has been flying drones professionally for agricultural mapping since 2015.
  • Charlie Turcotte, the owner/operator of Valley Precision Ag, a licensed drone pilot, and flight reviewer with a rich background in agriculture.
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