Unmanned Aerial Systems (Drone) Forum- April 15

Featuring Dr. David Lary adjunct professor at UTD

 

The talk will introduce several applications from the Multi-Scale Integrated Intelligent Interactive Sensing Center (MINTS) where we use aerial vehicles for societal benefit. These include applications in air quality, water resources, and hyperspectral imaging relevant to agriculture, monitoring infrastructure, detecting gas leaks and geophysical surveying. MINTS develops intelligent sensing systems for interdisciplinary applications. MINTS affiliates include experts from the UTD departments of physics, geosciences, electrical engineering, and computer science with a broad range of background expertise. The vision of MINTS is a holistic intelligent synergy of integrated targeted observations from multiple platforms on multiple spatial and temporal scales, together with state of the art compression and visualization systems for the distribution and comprehensive analysis of complete datasets. By combining instruments on satellites and robotic vehicles (in air, land, and sea) that can be directed in real time we can capture observations on multiple parameters on multiple spatial and temporal scales appropriate to a wide range of problems. This provides a high level of situational awareness.