COST Action HARMONIOUS is organizing a Training Course on UAS-based monitoring of Natural and Agricultural Ecosystems

HARMONIOUS Training Course 2020  – Villach, 26.-29.2 2020

Trainers

Dr. Helge Aase

Pof. Giuseppe Ciraolo – Coordinator Training Course

Dr. Antonino Maltese

Dr. Martin Mokros

Dr. Adrien Michez

Dr. Paolo Nasta

Dr. Yijian Zeng

Dr. Gernot Paulus & Dr. Karl-Heinrich Anders – Local Organizers

Program

25.02.2020 – 17:00 – 20:00 Ice Breaker Event & Registration at CUAS (CUAS, “FH Kärnten”, Technology Park Villach-St. Magdalen, Europastrasse 4, A-9524 Villach)

Day 1. 26.02.2020 – VEGETATION MONITORING VIA PROXIMITY SENSING AND PRE-PROCESSING OF UAS DATA
8:00 – 8:45 Registration
– 8:45 – 9:00 Welcome (Giuseppe Ciraolo and Gernot Paulus)
– 9:00 – 9:30 Participants introduce themselves (2 minutes each)
– 9:30 – 9:45 HARMONIOUS COST Action description (Salvatore Manfreda)
– 9:45 – 10:45 Lecture: Natural Ecosystems Monitoring (Martin Mokros)
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
– 11:15 -12:15 Lecture: Agricultural Ecosystems Monitoring (Giuseppe Ciraolo)
– 12:15 -13:15 Lecture: Data pre-processing and Radiometric Calibration of optical and thermal data (Helge Aasen)

13:15 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 16:15 Practical: Flight planning and data pre-processing (Helge Aasen)
16:15 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:30 Practical: Radiometric Calibration (Helge Aasen)
18:30 Closure
20:00 Training School social Dinner (in City center of Villach)

Day 2. 27.02.2020 – 3D RECONSTRUCTION, QUALITY CHECK AND SOIL MOISTURE MONITORING
9:00 – 10:00 Lecture: 3D reconstruction with UAS (Lidar and photogrammetry) – (Martin Mokros)
10:00 – 11:00 Lecture: Soil Moisture downscaling with UAS (Yijian Zeng)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Lecture: Crop stress and soil moisture monitoring and modelling (Paolo Nasta)
12:30 – 13:30 Lecture: Soil moisture monitoring via UAS (Antonino Maltese)
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch

Practical Natural Vegetation
14:30 – 16:30 Practical: Natural vegetation – Forest structure (Martin Mokros and Adrien Michez)
16:30 – 18:30 Practical: Change detection (Gernot Paulus and Karl-Heinrich Anders)

18:30 Closure

Day 3. 28.02.2020 – Practicals and Hands-on activities on the Case Studies
9:00 – 11:00 Practical: Soil moisture mapping and modelling (P. Nasta, Y. Zeng, A. Maltese)
Students will retrieve a map of soil moisture via UAV thermal data, to be used in modelling software (e.g., HYDRUS)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:30 Practical: Downscaling, Classification and Vegetation stress (Y. Zeng, G. Ciraolo)

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 19:30: Hands-on Activities on the Case Studies
Student working project (in small groups, 4-5 students): working on the sample data provided, students choose a topic and try to work on it, with the help of material provided (“tutorial”) and tutors.

19:30 Closure

Day 4. 29.02.2020 – Students presentation of a working project
9:00 – 11:30: Each group has 30/45 minutes to present the working project
11:30 – 12:00: Discussion and feedback (all participants) & Possibility of students engagement in the action activities (Salvatore Manfreda).
12.00 Training school closure (Gernot Paulus)

Location

Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (CUAS)

Spatial Information Management, Europastrasse 4, A-9524 Villach, Austria

CUAS Campus in Villach/St. Magdalen

Costs

Free of charge, accommodation and travel will be supported by the COST Action HARMONIOUS – Harmonization of UAS techniques for agricultural and natural ecosystems monitoring.

Selected students from COST countries are eligible for an economical support of 800€. The support will be transferred only at the end of the school.

Registration

To register, fill the form at https://forms.gle/MZXoCxow6jrCD5rv5

Places are limited and registration works on first come, first serve bases.

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