GEOSC-214 Drones and Phones: Seminar on New Tools for Geologic Field Work and Data Collection

Digital data collection using UAVs and smart phones has become an important tool for geologists to develop high resolution images and 3-D models of field terrains and outcrops. In this seminar, students will have a hands-on, in-depth experience with the methods, uses, and limitations of Structure from Motion photogrammetry in geoscience field work and research.

Maximum Enrollment

13

(Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning.)

Credits

0.5

Prerequisite

Take one course in Principles of Geoscience

Notes

During junior and senior class pre-registration, open only to geoscience concentrators.