The Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute for Technology, Zurich) is organizing a conference with the focus on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geomatics (UAV-g) on September 14-16, 2011 at ETH Zurich, Campus Science City (Hoenggerberg), Switzerland. There will be two days of conference and one day of flight demonstrations.
Using UAS as data acquisition platform and as measurement instrument has become attractive for many emerging applications. UAV-g 2011 brings together experts in photogrammetry, surveying, robotics, computer vision, artificial intelligence and aerospace engineering. Researchers, developers, service and system providers as well as users are invited to contribute with presentations, posters, exhibitions, demonstrations and discussions to create synergies between research and applications using UAVs in Geomatics.
The UAV-g sessions present scientific work or practical implementations addressing the problem of UAV systems in the field of Geomatics. Details on the technical sessions can be found in the here.
Researchers, developers, service and system providers as well as users are encouraged to show the functionality of their UAV systems in demonstration fields at nearby Birrfeld Airfield. More details on the demonstration can be found here.
A Pre-conference Tutorial is bing organised for all conference participants who are interested to get a general overview on UAVs and their applications for mapping. Presenters from companies specialized on UAVs and mapping, surveying agencies, and universities will give an insight of manifold UAV mapping applications. Apart from theoretical background also fully operational systems will be presented. The tutorial is organized in collaboration with EuroSDR, Onera and IGN. It takes place on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at the conference venue.
Schedule:
- Henri Eisenbeiss (ETH Zurich, Switzerland): UAV-g technology
- Jurgen Everaerts (VITO, Belgium): Legislative aspects – experiences from Belgium
- Florent Teichteil (ONERA-DCSD, France): Management and planning of UAV flight pattern
- Guillaume Druart (ONERA-DOTA, France): Review of different designs of optical payloads for micro-UAV
- Roland Haarbrink (Geocopter, The Netherlands): Overview on existing applications using UAV-g and perspectives
- Bruno Roux (Avion Jaune, France): Application of UAV acquisition for remote-sensing and cartography
- Marc Pierrot Deseilligny (IGN, France): Photogrammetric application of UAV
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