Venue: Denbury Resources

Speaker: Brian Archer

Topic: Airborne Geophysical Data Collection by Unmanned Air Vehicles

Outline:

• Advantages of utilizing drones over traditional manned aircraft
  • Lower data point cost, higher resolution/definition, fast, flexible and ease of deployment, access to high risk and difficult areas
• FAA Regulatory and Legal environment of operating drones
  • New FAA Part 107 compliance for drone pilots
  • Remote Pilot License Knowledge Test & Requirements
  • Drone Operations and Limitations
  • Drone System Requirements
  • Existing section 333 operators
• Air Vehicles, sensors and other Equipment
  • Choosing vehicles for your application Different levels of autonomy
  • Sensors of varying grades - single, and multi-channel remote sensing
  • Lidar, Thermal, Magnetic & Seismic Sensors
• Operational objectives and challenges in the field
  • What is it that your collected data to be used for
  • Drone crew deployment and assessment of operational challenges
  • Privacy and legal permission of data collection from land owner
• Integration of drones, and collaboration with existing survey system
  • Objectives, Personnel, Equipment, and Regulatory Compliance Big Data and how to manage it
• Safety, Risk mitigation
  • Inspection and maintenance
  • Incidents and accidents
  • Job Safety Analysis (JSA)

Speaker Biography:

Brian Archer

CEO of Galaxy UAV Systems

Bryan Archer of Galaxy UAV Systems has over 20 years in Aviation industry and has been flying remote controlled aircraft for over 30 years.

He is currently serving as board, committee and regular member in various manned and unmanned air vehicle associations.