Drone Essentials within Construction

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COURSE DESCRIPTION
This industry-specific short course in Drone Essentials for
Inspection in Civil Engineering focuses on the application of
drone technology in all aspects of civil engineering. The practical
experience brought by CAD4ALL, combined with our academic excellence in these sectors, will providedelegates with a holistic course from theory through to practice.
Entrance Requirements
- Basic understanding of drones and construction knowledge
- You will need a Drone
- You will also need a computer for access to our online student network and course material
Course Outline
Course Outline
Introduction to civil engineering |
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Definition and discussion of important terms and terminology |
Basic civil engineering background potentially relevant to drone operations |
Possible applications of drone technologies in civil engineering (list of options and examples for context) |
Using drone for site evaluation / planning / construction survey / construction progress / as-built data |
Principles, resolution, height, angle, sun, etc. |
Flight plans, repeats and sequences of data, comparing observations |
Data analysis / synthesis – software, processing, presentation |
Accountability / accuracy – decisions based on data or figures(changes in data, use of old information, etc |
Surveying – all aspects through photogrammetry, LiDAR, etc., principles, quantities |
Applications in Civil engineering |
Types of surveys, applications to different disciplines (construction, buildings, water, pipes, transportation, geotechnical, structures, etc.) |
Quantitative surveying – Photogrammetry and/or LiDAR scanning |
Photogrammetry vs. LiDAR (Including definitions, terminologies, etc.) |
Photogrammetry – overlap requirements, height-to-base ratio, etc. |
Data acquisition processes or techniques as well as pre- acquisition considerations and “checks” that will influence the accuracy of data recorded. |
Planning or designing flight paths |
Identifying potential errors in-flight |
Environmental condition effects. |
Aviation and related Legislation associated |
MHSA, MPRDA, EMPR, NEMA, NWA… – Relevance to the Drone pilot/surveyor |
SACAA etc. |
Image Security & Court/ Legal Use-Case. |
Risks identification and management |
Flight risks, operations packs, etc. |
Applications |
Planning |
Construction |
Infrastructure condition assessments |
Transportation (infrastructure – roads, rail) |
Transportation (traffic – observations, counts) |
Transportation (traffic (road and rail) – accident investigation) |
Water (pipes, dams, rivers, floods) |
Geotechnical (surveys, sinkholes, prospecting, surveys, geological structures, landforms, drainage patterns) |
Geotechnical (remote sensing techniques – magnetic, gravity, thermal, contaminant detection) |
Geotechnical (Tailings dam construction, pool management, volume (rate of rise) measurement) |
Structural (infrastructure survey, damage valuations, bridge surveys) |
Structural (existing plan development) |
Future applications. |
Processing of acquired data and delivering usable results |
Available software – introduction to terminology |
Outputs or results – point-cloud data, DEM, DTM, DSM, 3D Model, contours, etc. |
Analysis of the output results – i.e. additional calculations and measurements |
Determining or estimating the potential error associated with “your” data |
How will the client typically use the information “you” have compiled? |
How to account for environmental influence in your dataset? |
Computer practical |
Planning drone flight-path for accurate data acquisition |
Processing video-, image- or point-data using software |
Creating the relevant models to represent the acquired data and take the necessary measurements or conduct the necessary calculations based on these models. |