To conclude our Year 9/10 Science elective, Principles of Flight, we hosted ex Timboon P-12 student, Sean Lenehan, and Dr Blake Allan, the Chief Remote Pilot for Deakin University into the classroom to describe how drone technology is used across a variety of industries and organisations. Sean outlined the different categories applied to drone licences such as recreational, excluded and commercial with different restrictions and requirements involved in operating drones in various regions and for differing purposes. Sean described his role with Life Saving Victoria using drones for shark spotting, people counting, lifesaving, photography, videography, mapping and search and rescue purposes. Blake explained that his career path began with an interest in environmental science and that he was now able to partner that with drone technology. Students learnt about Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in aerial mapping and the citizen science monitoring project to record changes in our coastline. Drones are used in agriculture to provide orthomosaicas,3D volumetrics, time-series analysis based on high-accuracy UAV data, and multispec with thermal imaging in vegetation analysis, agriculture, wildlife monitoring and arboriculture either independently or coded in a swarm formation. Students were then fortunate enough to be able to pilot and manoeuvre the Tello drones that Blake brought in around obstacles in the classroom ...lots of flight principles in place! Comments are closed.
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