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Coastal Drone Academy

consists of specialized teams of professional aviators, scientists and students completing coastal natural resource management missions using unmanned aircraft

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Dr. Getter directs the “using drones for natural resource management program” at Career Tech High School in lincoln city oregon

OUR PILOTS train as small efficient teams assessing marine habitats using either fixed wing or rotary drones (small Unmanned Aerial Systems) and produce low-error photogrammetry, topographic, and high density cloud (3D) GIS data for our collaborators.

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The Academy and our Courses November 30, 2017
Advanced coastal drone missions October 11, 2017
Coastal drone operations August 16, 2017
Introduction to coastal drones August 16, 2017

Copyright © 2018 Chuck Getter

Mission data

Whale migration tracking

Airport classroom

Armory drone arena

Wetlands delineation, LiDAR

Seagrass/oyster bed mapping

Estuarine survey-grade mapping

Bridge inspection

Lines, towers, solar panel inspections

Whale and salmon census

Real estate photography

Trainer

Autonomous flight map

Construction management

Topographic mapping- orchard

Photomosaic mapping

Too map- islands in a bay

Wetlands photomosaic

Wetlands topography

Topographic mapping- berry orchard

OSU teaching drone launch

Training for whale surveys

Shipboard drone checklist

OSU teaching our pilots whale search techniques

Drones for monitoring whales

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Topographic mapping- orchard

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