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Hobart Function and Conference CentreHobart, Australia, 24 – 25 May 2017
Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Remote Sensing
Beyond Pretty Pictures: Real Data, Real Information
Welcome to the conference!
• Introductions:• Organising Committee• Our sponsors• Some important things to remember
• Innovation in Earth-Observation
• Bridging the Scale Gap
• Conference Aims and Programs and Output!
Please let the rest of the world know what’s happening here - #UAS4RS
Organising Committee
Juliane BendigUNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA
Darren TurnerUNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA
Felipe GonzalesQUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY
OF TECHNOLOGY
Karen JoyceJAMES COOK UNIVERSITY
Arko LucieerUNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA
Our Keynote Speakers
Dr Pablo Zarco-TejadaJoint Research Centre &
Spanish Council for Scientific Research
Dr Bek ChristensenTerrestrial Ecosystem Research
Network (TERN)
Dr Anttoni JaakkolaFinnish Geospatial Research Institute
Dr Karen JoyceJames Cook University
• Some important thingsto remember!
• Bus to dinner:06:30 pmTo Frogmore CreekWineryBack in Hobart22:30 pm
• Please upload your presentationbefore the start of the session
Bus to conference dinner
HFCC: conference venue entry
• Some important things to remember!
• Bathrooms• Mobile devices….• Emergency procedures • Organising committee as points of contact for any questions
• Wireless network: • WiFi name: LEADERSHIP• Password: LEARNING (uppercase!)
• Conference presentations and other material will be placed on the website
Wednesday 24 May08:30 – 08:45 Welcome – Arko Lucieer and Stuart Phinn08:45 – 09:30 Keynote #1 Pablo Zarco-Tejada - Unmanned aerial systems to understand vegetation functioning: Life beyond
beautiful images?09:30 – 09:50 “Speed Meet”: four 3-min rapid introductions (chair: Karen Joyce)09:50 - 10:50 Presentation session #1 - Vegetation & Structure (chair: Juliane Bendig)• Tim Whiteside - Application of multi-source UAV data to assess revegetation efforts on waste rock• Kasper Johansen - Pre- and Post-Pruning Assessment of Lychee Tree Crop Structure Using Multi-Spectral RPAS Imagery• Dongryeol Ryu - UAV-borne Mapping of Crop Water Stress in a Nectarine and Peach Orchard Using Thermal Infrared Imagery10:50 – 11:15 Coffee & posters11:15 - 12:35 Presentation session #2 – Mapping, Surveying, Monitoring (chair: Darren Turner)• Miguel Alvarado - Overview of the development of a methodology to monitor PM10 with UAS• Junping Wang - Applications of Unmanned Aircraft System for Genomic Selection of Drought Tolerance in Forages• Felipe Gonzalez - Standard Operating Procedures for UAV or Drone based Monitoring of Wildlife• Steve J. Harwin - A Comparison of standard Fixed Wing versus Multi Rotor Drone Photogrammetry Surveys
12:35 – 13:00 Poster presentations 3-min speakers (chair: Tim Whiteside)• Bonny Stutsel- Using Ground Based Sensors to Inform Thermal RPAS Methods for Detecting Crop Damage after Frost Events• Parvez Mahbub - LEDs as Light Sources for Portable Analysis: Sensing of Atmospheric Methane with Rapidly Pulsed IR-LEDs and
Applicability to Remote Monitoring of Gases• Ansara Noori - Highly Sensitive and Quantitative Measurements of Atmospheric Methane with On-the-fly Rapid Data Handling for UAV
based monitoring• Bikram P. Banerjee - Mapping of endangered swamp species from a UAV-hyperspectral system• Gustavo T. Alckmin - Use of Remote Sensing Techniques to Enhance Forage Management: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles• Lola Suarez - MUASIP - Melbourne Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Platform. Capabilities and examples• Sameer Joshi - High-Throughput Aerial Phenotyping for Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Wheat13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Keynote #2 – Bek Christensen - Research Infrastructure for Essential Environmental Information – what role for UAS?
14:45 – 15:15 Poster presentations 3-min speakers (chair: Stuart Phinn)• Dongryeol Ryu - UAV-borne Mapping of Crop Water Stress in a Nectarine and Peach Orchard Using Thermal Infrared Imagery • Mary E. Murphy - Remote Sensing Of Frost Damage In Wheat: Trying to Identify Spectral Response Patterns Across Space And Time• Yu-Hsuan Tu - Evaluating radiometric corrections of multi-spectral drone image data for horticultural applications• Irfan A. Iqbal - Comparison of point cloud data sourced from airborne laser scanning and UAS photogrammetry – application to forest
inventory15:15 – 15:40 Coffee15:40 – 16:40 Presentation session #3 – Sensors I (chair: Simon Jones)• Arko Lucieer - Hyperspectral imaging from unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)-Sensor integration and geometric processing workflows for
pushbroom and snapshot sensors• Faheem Iqbal - Poppy crop height estimation from a single UAS flight• Luke Wallace - Seeing the ground through the trees16:40 – 17:30 Posters session18:30 – 19:00 Bus to Frogmore Creek (leaves from: 4 Elizabeth St)19:00 – 22:00 Conference dinner: Frogmore Creek 22:00 – 22:30 Bus to Hobart
Thursday 25 May09:00 – 09:45 Keynote #3 – Anttoni Jaakkola - Multisensoral UAV-based reference measurements for forestry applications09:45 – 11:05 Presentation session #4 – Agriculture (chair: Felipe Gonzalez)• Arko Lucieer - Dot-to-dot – recent progress in airborne laser scanning from UAS: calibration, accuracy assessment, and application• Eileen M. Perry - Flying Low and Slow: High Resolution Imagery for Agricultural Field Research• Pieter E. Badenhorst - Yield Assessment of a 270 000 Plant Perennial Ryegrass Field Trial using a Multispectral Aerial Imaging Platform• Surya Kant - Applications of Unmanned Aircraft System for Improving Water Use Efficiency in Wheat11:05 – 11:30 Coffee & Break11:30 – 12:50 Presentation session #5 – Vegetation & classification (chair: Arko Lucieer)• Felipe Gonzalez - Towards the Automatic Detection of Pre-existing Termite Mounds in Arid Lands using UAVs, Hyperspectral Cameras
and Machine Learning Approaches• Ning Liu - New applications of UAV technology in agriculture: estimating carbon sequestration and water repellency• Rene H.J. Heim - Hyperspectral remote sensing of plant pathogens: Detecting and monitoring Myrtle Rust• Bilal H. Alsalam - Invasive Spear Thistle Weed Detection and Zoysia grass Mapping Using UAV Aerial Imagery12:50 – 13:50 Lunch13:50 – 14:35 Keynote #4 – Karen Joyce – To Drone for Science14:35 – 15:35 Presentation session #6 – Sensors II (chair: Kasper Johansen)• Darren Turner- Thermal Infrared remote sensing with a FLIR Vue Pro-R• Juliane Bendig - Beyond (pretty) spectra – Measuring plant chlorophyll fluorescence from a UAS• Deepak Gautam - Geolocation of a UAS mounted spectrometer footprint15:35 – 16:00 Coffee16:00 – 17:00 Presentation session #7 – Vegetation & ecosystems (chair: Karen Joyce)• Stuart Phinn – UAS, RPAS, Drones - Data, Meta-data, Protocols, Portals etc…?• Sandra Grant - Current Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) program for environmental monitoring in northern Australia and future
directions• John Weiss - Evaluating the effectiveness of UAS obtained imagery at detecting early stages of phylloxera incursion in vineyards17:00 – 17:15 Conference close - Arko Lucieer and Stuart Phinn
Innovation in Earth-Observation Field survey Airborne or Satellite
Data CollectionProcessing +
Analysis Output Spatial
Data Data Delivery +
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Beyond pretty pictures?
“UAS Remote Sensing” publications
Source: scopus.com
“UAV Remote Sensing” publications
Source: scopus.com
“UAV Remote Sensing” publications
Source: scopus.com
Aims of the conference• Exchange of knowledge and experience regarding state-of-the-art
airframes, sensors, regulations, data processing, and the driving applications!
• Identify operational and exciting examples of the use of UAS in remote sensing applications to solve environmental + other challenges
• Making connections with colleagues and identify opportunities for collaborations across industry, government, communities, research and education.
• Identify priority areas for future research and operational development
Hobart Function and Conference CentreHobart, Australia, 24 – 25 May 2017
Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Remote Sensing
Beyond Pretty Pictures: Real Data, Real Information