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 Use a drone for your application or challenge.
 Understanding about the available airborne technology.
 Overview of legislation and regulations concerning drones.
 Flight preparations and create- and execute a safe mission setup.
 Define a mission planning with the available open source and commercial tools.
 Discuss the potential of image product delivery for different purposes.
 Examine drone data and derive information from it.

THEORY (30 Hours)

UNIT I Fundamentals of Drones and Autonomous Systems (5 Hours)

History and Introduction, Types of Drones and classifications, Critical Technologies and
equirements, Aviation, Theory of flight, Stake holders and Laws, DGCA Rules of Drones 2021,
Drone flying requirements, Type certifications, Operations of Drones

UNIT II Remote Sensing, UAV's and Applications (5 Hours)

Fundamentals of Flight, Aerodynamics, Air traffic procedures, Mission and Flight planning,
Field operation and Reece techniques, Introduction to Sensors and Cameras, Weather and
Meteorology, UAVs as tool, Introduction of Applications in Agriculture and allied sectors

UNIT III Planning, Acquisition to visualization (5 Hours)

Types of Imagery Products, Manual Flight Profiles, Sample Image Lists Introduction Selection of
the drone, Mission Planning, Dos and Donts of flight, Prechecks and Flight operation compliance,
Agriculture drones, Surveillance drones, Digital imaging, Crop damage identification, Crop
irrigation, Crop Observation

PRACTICAL (30 Hours)

1. Introduction drones equipment and other components
2. Check list and Pre flight operation Checks and Drone equipment maintenance
3. Risk Assesment & Analysis – Failure, Drone stray controls and other emergencies
4. Nozzle selection and Spray patterns
5. Payload installation and utilization
6. Refills
7. Load calculations
8. Hands on flying with instructor
9. Mission planning and operations