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Course Overview

3-Month Course Syllabus: Complete Guide to Starting a Profitable Drone Mapping and Surveying Business

Course Outline

Month 1: Introduction to Drone Mapping and Surveying

  • Introduction
  • What to Expect?

  • What is Surveying?
  • What is Cartography?
  • Introduction to Drones in Mapping and Surveying

  • What is a Drone?
  • Applications of Drones
  • Drones in Mapping and Surveying
  • Outputs from Drone Mapping

  • Traditional vs Modern Methods
  • Important Concepts and Terminologies
  • What is Remote Sensing?
  • What is Photogrammetry?
  • Raster and Vector Data
  • Coordinates and Coordinate Reference System

Month 2: Planning and Executing Drone Mapping Missions

  • Understanding GCPs
  • Relative and Global Accuracy
  • Ground Sampling Distance (GSD)
  • Techniques of Image Acquisition: Nadir vs Oblique Images

  • Understanding Client Requirements
  • Scouting the Site on Google Earth Pro
  • Creating KML for AOI
  • Creating Flight Plans
  • Planning and Marking GCPs
  • Making a Google Map Project

  • Equipment Checklist
  • Log Book for Field Work
  • Marking GCPs in the Field
  • Uploading Flight Plans to a Mission Planning Software
  • Executing a Drone Mapping Mission

  • Introduction to Metashape Pro
  • Importing Images in Metashape Pro
  • Converting Image and Marker Coordinates
  • Image Alignment in Metashape Pro

Month 3: Post-Processing and Final Deliverables

  • Importing and Tagging GCPs
  • Building Dense Cloud
  • Building DEM and Orthomosaic
  • Classifying Ground Points
  • Generating DTM
  • Generating a Mesh
  • Generating Textur
  • Exporting Data

  • Introduction to QGIS
  • Setting up a Project in QGIS
  • Digitizing Features
  • Attributes in QGIS
  • Generating Points Along Polyline in QGIS
  • Clipping Raster Data in QGIS

  • Generating Contours
  • Generating Hillshade in QGIS
  • Map and Print Layout
  • Exporting Data in QGIS

  • Converting GeoTIFF to ECW Format
  • Setting up and Importing Data in Civil3D
  • Creating Surface from DEM
  • Generating Contours from Surface
  • Finalizing CAD Drawing
  • Saving and Exporting Drawing

Course Wrap-Up

  • Review and Q&A Session
  • Final Project Submission

Note: Fees: 30000(if you have 5 peoples in a group), 40000(single person in class). Any query please contact us.

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Registration and Course Fees

  • Price: INR 40000
  • Duration: 2-3 Months

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