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Using Drones to Monitor River Restoration
Presenters: Beth Styler Barry, River Restoration Manager, The Nature Conservancy David Zuckerman, Volunteer Licensed Drone Pilot Chuck Gullage, Volunteer Licensed Drone Pilot
Columbia Dam Drone Team: Chuck Gullage, Dave Zuckerman, Nigel Robinson, Jeff Burian, Ellen Creveling, Steve Lyon, Beth Styler Barry, Casey Schrading
Second Annual NJ Watershed Conference
Columbia Dam Volunteer Drone Team
1. How to assemble a Volunteer Drone Team 2. Using drones to tell your story 3. Using drones for quantitative analysis
Using Drones to Monitor River Restoration
1. How to assemble a Volunteer Drone Team 2. Using drones to tell your story 3. Using drones for quantitative analysis
Using drones to help monitor river restoration
Columbia Dam Volunteer Drone Team
•Drone Team Staffing •River Restoration Manager •Licensed Commercial Drone Pilot •Safety Pilot/Observer •Observer •Data/IT Person
Using drones to help monitor river restoration
•Typical Equipment •DJI Phantom Pro •DJI Mavic Pro •Apple iPad
Using drones to help monitor river restoration
•Miscellaneous Equipment • Safety Vests • Traffic Cones • Golf Umbrella • Lawn Chair • iPad Sun Shade • Extra SD Micro Cards • Extra Charged Batteries • Extra Drone
Using drones to help monitor river restoration
•Procedures •Obtain Permission Beforehand •Carry Paperwork •Coordinate With Law Enforcement •Check Data Before Departing
Using drones to help monitor river restoration
Getting an sUAS (small Unmanned Aerial Systems) license
• Why get a sUAS license?
• Paths to getting a license or endorsement
• Current Private Pilot (Part 333 Exclusion) • Abbreviated aeronautical knowledge test
• Non-current Private Pilot/Non-Pilot • Background investigation • Exam fee • Good for 2 years • Full aeronautical knowledge test • Resources
Columbia Dam Volunteer Drone Team
1. How to assemble a Volunteer Drone Team
2. Using drones to tell your story
3. Using drones for quantitative analysis
2. Using drones to tell your story
Columbia Dam Volunteer Drone Team
Who might want to hear your story?
Funders Donors Communities Partners (NGOs) Practitioners
Columbia Dam Volunteer Drone Team
What sort of questions might a drone help answer?
Columbia Dam Volunteer Drone Team
Are our trees growing? Are the banks holding up? Is the channel staying put? Where is sediment collecting?
Columbia Dam Volunteer Drone Team
Columbia Dam Volunteer Drone Team
Columbia Dam Volunteer Drone Team
3. Using drones for quantitative analysis
1. How to assemble a Volunteer Drone Team 2. Using drones to tell your story
Understanding the needs of the “client”
Columbia Dam Volunteer Drone Team
What does the client need to see, learn or be able to explain to others.
Using Drones for Quantitative Analysis: Columbia Dam Removal
Columbia Dam Volunteer Drone Team
The team wants to watch the changes during the dam removal.
• We documented the “pre” conditions
• Documented stages of lowering
• Going beyond just the pictures
Photogrammetry is the science of making measurements from photographs, especially for recovering the exact positions of surface points.
Columbia Dam Volunteer Drone Team
Photogrammetry allows us to map changes at intervals during the project.
Quantitative Analysis
Columbia Dam Volunteer Drone Team
Ground Point Controls
Columbia Dam Volunteer Drone Team
Several ground control point coordinates are used to calculate the coordinates. In the field, ground control points are marked in a way that makes them visible later on aerial photographs.
Ground Point Controls
Thank you!
Any questions?