Site Survey Using Drones (Advanced)
  • Type Learning
  • Level Advanced
  • Cost Free

Site Survey Using Drones (Advanced)

Issued by Charles Darwin University

Indigenous rangers learn to use drones to responsibly collect useful and useable data to monitor healthy country values. Training is delivered on the job through collaborative research projects or monitoring programs with a technical trainer and under Elder authorisation, so rangers can use drones as a tool to support their caring for Country work. Rangers learn to set up survey areas in a control app, run automatic flight surveys, upload survey data, and produce photos from monitoring surveys.

  • Type Learning
  • Level Advanced
  • Cost Free

Skills

  • Drones
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Indigenous land and sea management
  • Responsible Innovation

Earning Criteria

  • Activity 1 includes collaborating with Traditional Owners to ensure the right people are present and have provided authorisation for drones to be flown on their Country, map the area to be surveyed with Traditional Owners including areas that can be flown over and areas that cannot be flown over, and discuss and agree on rules for drone use in the area to be surveyed.
  • Activity 2 includes working with an accredited operator to set up a survey area in a drone control application, run an automatic flight survey, and upload the survey data to a computer.
  • Activity 3 is to submit a photo from the monitoring survey.