[RangelandsPartnership] FW: [e-Agriculture] e-Agriculture Update : Week 1 round up on the introduction to drones learning activity

[John A. Tanaka]

I hope they will also talk about FAA licensing rules. I know at UW we have to either contract with a commercial company or get licensed. Guessing FAO countries have different rules.

John Tanaka
Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station

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From: "Hutchinson, Barbara S - (bhutchin)" <BarbaraH at cals.arizona.edu>
Date: 10/24/17 5:43 PM (GMT-07:00)
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Subject: [RangelandsPartnership] FW: [e-Agriculture] e-Agriculture Update : Week 1 round up on the introduction to drones learning activity

For those of you using or interested in using drones.  Apologies for any cross-postings.  -- Barb

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Subject: [e-Agriculture] e-Agriculture Update : Week 1 round up on the introduction to drones learning activity

e-Agriculture Update : Week 1 round up on the introduction to drones learning activity
[cid:c036f46fed210f9c3e5aef41bbe13afd at www.e-agriculture.org]


The e-Agriculture Team launched the “introduction to drones in agriculture’ learning activity<http://www.e-agriculture.org/forums/discussions/e-agriculture-learning-activity-use-drone-agriculture-and-rural-development>. This self-learning activity is intended to increase the appreciation of drones to members and followers of the e-Agriculture Community of Practice (CoP). This update provides a brief summary of the events in week 1.

That week saw participants juggling between different types of content webinars, dedicated pages, recorded content, YouTube videos and WhatsApp discussion group. This variety of content spiced up the learning approach as it was designed to allow individuals without a background in drones to appreciate the learning path and also offer experienced users a chance to observe the various application of drones in agriculture and rural development.

Read the summary of the content here <http://www.e-agriculture.org/news/update-e-agriculture-learning-activity-drones-week-1>

What has been covered so far?


  *   What drones are?
  *   The different types of drones
  *   The various use of drones within agriculture and rural development
  *   Use of drones in forestry

Briefly review the full programme here <http://www.e-agriculture.org/sites/default/files/u49685/draft_programme_e-agriculture_learning_activity_drones_12102017.pdf>

Sample of some of the content covered

Type of content

Resource


Webinars

This week we had three webinars, an opening webinar session with facilitators and webinar with Matthew Barre from SLANTRAGE on airborne agriculture analytics and last one with Mariacarmen Ruiz from FAO Panama on community monitoring of forests in indigenous territories in Panama.

The webinar by Matthew Barre, overviewed SLANTRANGE's approach in analysing data collected by drones.Drone-based imaging and analytics are proving to be a powerful tool to provide new insights to agronomists and farmers in crop research, breeding, and production. Watch here<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSNGJqnrdiU>.

[cid:bce07ad288db6082380bbd87f2502b83 at www.e-agriculture.org]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSNGJqnrdiU>


Recorded Talks

Last Tuesday, a recorded talk was presented by Gerard Sylvester from FAO and his presentation introduced drones, provided some useful definitions, presented different types of drones and provided an overview of various equipment associated with drones. Listen to the talk<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bddFqtIivE>.

[cid:e6780a94d3670406e9bd5ae90b24d28a at www.e-agriculture.org]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bddFqtIivE>


Exercises

In the beginning of the learning exercise, last monday, participants were given the exercise on experience capitalization. This exercise requested a short experience on the use of drones. The short exercise required participants to share their own experiences with the rest of the class. Go to Exercise<http://www.e-agriculture.org/forumtopics/exercise-1-experience-capitalization>

[cid:203744b5607ca47a8a37cb3acbb262db at www.e-agriculture.org]


WhatsApp

In order to cater for a wide number of people, the e-Agriculture team also created a WhatsApp group for this activity. The WhatsApp group had about 120 registered people with interesting discussion.

[cid:59b93809e6285e594f9e0d899d3f7661 at www.e-agriculture.org]


Week 2: Upcoming webinars

In the second week also various interesting content will be presented, we highlight two webinars:

e-Agriculture Learning Activity Drones Webinar: The use of drones in humanitarian action | Friday 27.10.2017 at 4 PM CEST<http://www.e-agriculture.org/news/e-agriculture-learning-activity-drones-webinar-use-drones-humanitarian-action>

e-Agriculture Learning Activity Drones Webinar: senseFly and Moser Solutions| Tuesday 24.10.2017 at 4 PM CEST <http://www.e-agriculture.org/news/e-agriculture-learning-activity-drones-webinar-sensefly-and-moser-solutions>

More information here <http://www.e-agriculture.org/forums/discussions/e-agriculture-learning-activity-use-drone-agriculture-and-rural-development>

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