AG Drone School

In collaboration with Landview Drones, Extended Learning is excited to bring this Ag Drone School to campus!Ag Drone School deals with every aspect of productive, safe, and legal use of remotely piloted aerial systems by farmers & agronomists.

From your first takeoff to completely autonomous mapping in two days, this ag drone school is suitable for all experience levels. From teenagers to retired agronomists, from government environmental agency staff to ag-tech entrepreneurs.

You don't even need to have a drone -- only about ¼ of attendees already have a remote piloted aircraft system (RPAS). Many are just taking the course because they want to learn about it before purchasing anything.

Course Outline

Fly Safely

• Flight training suitable for complete beginners
• From first takeoff to autonomous mapping
• Learn to fly using our fleet of drones

Fly Legally

• Basic RPAS ground school: air law, drone systems, theory of flight, human factors, meteorology, navigation, and maintenance
• Take the Transport Canada online test and leave with your Basic Pilot’s Certificate 

Save Time & Make Money

• Two full days of hands-on learning, flight practice & real-world farm and ranch uses
• Beyond pretty pictures & video, you’ll learn how to create accurate hi-res maps of fields
• New: intro to spraying or cover-crop spreading
• Demystifying the remote-sensing jargon: NDVI, multispectral, thermal, LiDAR

What You Will Learn

Topics covered include:

• Introduction to Remote Sensing of Vegetation
• NDVI and other vegetative indexes
• Data accuracy: sensor types and calibration
• Future of crop imaging ... hyperspec, thermal, machine learning
• From fly to apply: software workflows
• Use cases: the many uses of drones on farms
• Knowledge Requirements for Small Basic Operations:
• Air law, air traffic rules and procedures
• RPAS airframes, power plants, propulsion and systems
• Human factors
• Meteorology
• Navigation
• Flight operations
• Theory of flight
• Radiotelephony
• Intro to spraying by drones