Drone

*General objectives

Drones occupy an increasingly strategic position in geosciences and can be used for a large diversity of applications by carrying various payloads: APN, lidar, optical cameras, weather sensors, sampling systems, geophysical sensors ... They can be used to survey areas of difficult access and provide aerial views allowing for the mapping of measurements and the comparison with satellite measurements.
The originality of this workshop on drones stems from the specificity of our study fields at OSUG: mountains, high latitudes, altitudes, extreme conditions.

This workshop builds on the richness of the OSUG community:

  • a broad scientific and technical expertise within laboratories: drones, sensors, imaging, data processing and storage, photogrammetry, GIS, airborne robotics ...
  • drone fleets already developed within several laboratories (drone platforms at IGE and LESSEM) and a diversity of applications (topographic surveys over glacier and rivers using photogrammetry SfM and lidar at IGE, miniaturization of spectro imager at IPAG, magnetic and radar drone-borne surveys at ISTerre and IGE ...)
  • strong regional private sector capacities for subcontracting / buying / maintaining drones.

***Objectives of this workshop:

  • To share experiences,
  • To develop a specific expertise on drone use in regions with strong environmental constraints,
  • To initiate collaborations and set up unifying projects within the OSUG community,
  • To transfer skills and collaborations
    • toward the private sector: development of sensors, expertise on flight zones, FUI project
    • toward the public: alerts, monitoring of risk zones, specific actions for public policies ...

***Teaching opportunities:

  • links with local teaching projects (e.g., M2GEOSPHERE)
  • outsourced or internal training at OSUG (e.g., summer schools)

*Workshop activities

The drone workshop organizes one or two events per year to allow the sharing of experiences, the initiation of collaborations and the setting up of one or more unifying projects.
Local companies might be asked to come to present their expertise, equipment, services etc ...

News, organization and information on drone-related projects will be communicated via the osug-atelier-drone univ-grenoble-alpes.fr list. Anyone interested in following the activities of the workshop can freely register on the list by following this link.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested into participating to the organization of the workshop.

*Referents

Laurent Arnaud (IGE), Laurent Borgniet (INRAE), Claire Bouligand (ISTerre) and Stéphane Jaillet (EDYTEM)