A one week course on ‘UAV Remote Sensing and its Applications’ was conducted at NESAC for Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and Intelligence Bureau (IB) officials working in space cell from 22nd August to 26th August 2022. The 17 participants were senior level officers from CRPF, SSB, ITBP and IB. The course focused on imparting knowledge to participants on UAVs and its components, flight planning for data acquisitions for various remote sensing applications. Special emphasis was given on mapping and surveillance applications, 3D printing & its applications in UAV, different data processing techniques such as generation of Orthomosaic, digital elevation model (DEM), digital terrain model (DTM), contour maps, volumetric analysis etc..The five day course also included practical sessions on flight simulator, mission planning and data acquisition, data processing and data analysis.
The course concluded with a valedictory session chaired by Dr. S.P. Aggarwal, Director, NESAC. The participants were presented with certificates of course completion by the Director, NESAC.