Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Yer Bilimlerinde İnsansız Hava Sistemleri
	English	Unmanned Aerial Systems in Earth Sciences
Course Code	YSB 660E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	2	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Orkan Özcan
Course Objectives		The major goal of this course is to teach the student the necessary details to plan and carry out a safe and successful UAV flight in geological outdoor environments. The course provides an introduction to the Unmanned Aerial System from the geospatial perspective which includes but is not limited to: • Sensors and platforms; • Remote sensing applications; • Operational requirements of the UAS; • data processing softwares; • Generation of digital data products such as point cloud, orthophoto and digital surface model; • Current rules and regulations for operating an UAS in our country; • The place of UAS in earth sciences and applications
Course Description		The course will cover basic topics including legal guidelines and regulations in the Unmanned Air Systems, as well as practical field applications and data processing experience in earth sciences.
Course Outcomes		At the end of the course the student should be familiar with the important aspects of flight planning and UAV operation. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: • Understand main concepts that define Unmanned Aerial Systems. • Identify UAS components. • Design a UAS-based flight mission. • Learn UAS-based image processing techniques. • Recognize potential applications of the UAS for GIS operations. • Produce geospatial products such as ortho photos and digital surface models. • Advise users on the rules and regulations on operating an UAS.
Pre-requisite(s)
Required Facilities		Students will use Pix4D Capture, Pix4D Desktop, ArcGIS, Postflight Terra, eMotion3, Matlab for flight planning, monitoring and data processing.
Other		Homework & Projects - Students will make an exposé concerning a subject of their own choice. - Practical training, will allow the student to use the UAV system of the Eurasia Institute of Earth Science for her/his project. Lab. work Application for flight planning and monitoring - Application for processing data obtained post-flight
Textbook		Özcan, O., Demir, B., Akay, S. (2019). İnsansız Hava Araçları ve Yer Bilimleri, II.baskı, 173 sf., ISBN: 978-605-288-755-4.
Other References		Manfreda, S., et al. (2018). On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring. Remote Sensing 10(4): 641. Carrivick, J.L., Smith, M.W., Quincey, D.J., (2016). Structure from Motion in the Geosciences; Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK,; p. 208. Ruzikova K. and Inspektor T., (2015) Surface Models for Geosciences. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, XXII, 308 ISBN: 978-3- 319-18406-7 Colomina, I., Molina, P., (2014). Unmanned aerial systems for photogrammetry and remote sensing: A review,ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Volume 92, Pages 79-97, ISSN 0924-2716, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.02.013.

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