The Ultimate Guide for Land Surveying with Drones - Part 1
What you'll learn
- Master end to end drone surveying processes and techniques
- Tap into the multi billion dollar global land surveying industry! Understand the basics of land surveying and how you can transform this sector with drones
- Learn about surveying accuracy and how you can achieve the best possible accuracy
- Choose the best drones for aerial surveying
- Plan nadir and oblique automated flights using techniques that I have mastered over 3 years. Learn how to use kml/excel files and gps tagging apps to plan your flights
- Learn about safety and regulations for drone operations
- Internalize all practical aspects of flight execution - marking boundary points, choosing best take off points, adjusting flight parameters, image quality and coverage check, continuing flights mid way in a mission
- Use image processing software to generate, analyze and visualize aerial survey outputs - orthomosaics, DSMs, 3D models and contours
- Practise flight planning and image processing steps with sample data sets
- Subtitles in English and Spanish
Requirements
- This course does not need any prior drone related experience. Anyone can take it up!
Description
This course is the first part of the 3 course series “The Ultimate Guide for Land Surveying with Drones”. This part covers the basics of land surveying and how drones have revolutionized this process. We have detailed all the steps involved in flight planning and execution and how you can go about processing the images captured to get the needed outputs. This course is especially useful for those of you who are beginners and have no experience with drone surveying.
The course series has over 4000 enrollments across 114 countries since it was released 10 months back and it has been a bestselling course on Udemy.
Reviews
"Though the information about the workflow is exhaustive, it has been put in a very nice and concise way, I have started offering Drone Survey in my bouquet of services and today I got my first paying customer! Thanks."
"clear, descriptive, fun and generous teaching"
"Great content and easy to follow and understand. I think this is essential for anyone starting out with aerial mapping workflow."
"Good for beginners. Simple and easy to understand explanation which is very helpful for non technical people. I have learnt so much in under one hour!"
"The instrucor is very knowledgeable about drone mapping and it shows in the way he explains the entire workflow. I've really enjoyed the course!"
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who is passionate about drone applications!
- Anyone who wants to start a drone survey business!
- Anyone who wants to add drone surveying to their existing services!
Course content
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Instructors
![Huviair Technologies](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 1,782 Reviews
- 4,561 Students
- 5 Courses
HUVIAiR Technologies is a Visual Data Technology company. Its major investor is Boeing. Huviair collects, processes and analyses contruction and mining jobsite data using Drones, 360 Cameras, Laser Scanners and Mobile Phones helping you save on progress monitoring time by 75%, manpower requirement by 50% and overall costs of the project by 20%.
We have a deep understanding of UAVs, sensors, photogrammetry, GIS mapping, surveying techniques, image processing, data analytics and software programming.
Our cloud based productivity enhancement software platform provides measurement and reporting of relevant metrics of construction progress tracking by converting data from various sources such as drones, laser scanners and 360 cameras into actionable, measurable metrics.
Vikshut Mundkur and Arjun Janananda are the instructors for our Udemy courses. As the CEO and CTO, respectively, of HUVIAiR Technologies, they have mastered drone mapping and data processing techniques. They have also developed processes and workflows for understanding customer requirements, planning and executing drone flights, processing the data and analyzing the outputs. They have an in depth understanding of photogrammetry, surveying techniques, terrain mapping and using GIS and CAD software.
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 1,782 Reviews
- 4,596 Students
- 5 Courses
I'm an electronics engineer with a passion for technology, innovation and business! Over the past 3 years, I have developed a passion for drone technology and have co-founded a start up called Huviair Technologies in Bangalore, India. I specialize in understanding customer requirements, conceptualizing projects, planning and executing drone data capture, processing the data, analyzing the outputs and producing results. I have expertise on drone data applications for the survey, construction, infrastructure, renewable energy and natural resource management sectors.
As part of my efforts to give back to society, I also work as a pro bono consultant for the Indian Government and several not for profit organizations. Presently:
1. I am a member of the Central Employment Guarantee Council, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India.
2. I am a member of the Policy Research Department of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the present ruling political party in India.
3. I am a technology advisor to Mythri Speaks, an NGO working on various issues such as Environment, Woman & Child, Rural Development and Indigenous Sciences.
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 1,782 Reviews
- 4,596 Students
- 5 Courses
I am an engineer and the founder-CTO of Huviair Technologies. With a deep understanding of computer programming, image processing, photogrammetry, data analytics, terrain mapping, surveying techniques, and being in Drone Tech business for last 3 years, I have mastered drone surveying and data processing techniques.
Learning from practical, on the ground experience, I have developed processes and workflow for collecting customer requirements, planning and executing drone flights to capture data, using the right software to process the data and finally post processing and generating reports for clients.