1. UAS Initiative Flying Sensors – Mapping with New Technologies Fred Judson, GISP District 1 and 2 GIS Manager Ohio UAS Center Support Fred.Judson@dot.state.oh.us

2. UAS Initiative Flying Sensors - Sensors with a Different perspective Why Drones? –Extend Line-of-Sight –Different Perspective –Beyond 2d points, lines and polygons

3. UAS Initiative Sensors Acoustic, Sound, Vibration Chemical Electric Current, Electric Potential, Magnetic, Radio Environment, Weather, Moisture, Humidity Flow, Fluid Velocity Ionizing Radiation, Subatomic Particles Navigation Instruments Position, Angle, Displacement, Distance, Speed, Acceleration Optical, Light, Imaging, Photon Pressure Force, Density, Level Thermal, Heat, Temperature Proximity, Presence

4. UAS Initiative Sensor Technologies Cameras (Still or Video for sUAS) –Current Visible Light MultiSpectral –Emerging (Commercial) Technology Hyperspectral Thermal Infrared OCI-UAV-2000 - 0.6 lb

5. UAS Initiative Sensors for Improved Flight Multiple sensors for structure inspection and navigation in tight spaces.

6. UAS Initiative Airframes - VTOL\Fixed Wing Fixed-wing for Aerial Photography Projects –Landing footprints

7. UAS Initiative Airframes - VTOL\fixedwing Arcturus UAV Bell Eagle Eye Boeing Phantom Swift Sony and ZMP

8. UAS Initiative Flight Controllers\Dynamics – Fixed Wing Oblique Imagery Automated flight path for oblique photography from a fixed wing.

9. UAS Initiative Flight Controllers\Dynamics – Rotored UA Orbit Around Object Point of interest - Fly around a specified point at a preset height and radius Follow me – Follow the user’s smartphone Used for cinematic shots and 3d model creation.

10. UAS Initiative Navigation/Accuracy Piksi is a low-cost, high- accuracy GPS receiver with Real Time Kinematics (RTK). Centimeter-level accuracy Open source software Output rate (50hz) Power consumption (0.5W) $1000

11. UAS Initiative Emerging Sensor Technologies Light field mapping - captures information about the intensity of light in a scene, and also captures information about the direction that the light rays are traveling in space –Improve camera calibration –Improve pixel mapping for point cloud generation Optical flow –Improved navigation Avoid objects –Navigation without GPS Ambient magnetic field mapping –Navigation without GPS when aided by other sensors Indoor Navigation

12. UAS Initiative Emerging Software Processing Technologies Machine Learning\AI –Point Cloud Object Recognition and Classification –Real Autonomous Flight –Sense and Avoid Universite Libre de Bruxelles and Instituto Universitario de Lisboa

13. UAS Initiative Questions From GIS 2D to 3D + Time = Difficult analytics Future is Sensors and Processing –Not Drones? –GOOGLE Skybox Sub meter real-time satellite video and imagery