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# UA Drone interest group meeting notes
**2020-12-14 16:00PM (CST)**

[Previous meeting notes](https://hackmd.io/qmEvvCivSd-92Vla01-XVw?view)

## Agenda
* Introductions - 5 minutes
* Official Q&A time: bring your questions for the group at large: 15 minutes
* Work on official purpose of group: 20 minutes
* Open time: discuss what you're working on at this time; presentations; discussions; etc.: 15 minutes
* Figure out next meeting date/time and wrap up (proposed - January 11, 2021 @ 4:00PM AZ time): 5 minutes
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## Introductions

## Group Obectives
(Expanded upon from last meeting)
- Education: Provide a forum for learning
- Teach each other about what we are doing, how we do it,
* protocols & best practices
* flight / data capture logistics
* data transfer
* software
- Legal aspects
- insurance, license to fly
- Resource availability (drones, processing power, people, etc)
- Insurance and liability
- Help: answering questions and providing help
- Growth: capture methods and processes for others to use
* capture best practices so others can learn from them
* connecting people
* grant proposals
- Dissemination: provide information on what’s available from and through this group
- Local workshops / groups where we can present our activities to others on campus
- [RISE Symposium](https://www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/rise/) (run by Mitch Mitch McClaren)
- CALS (Formerly run by Sangita)
- AIR Arizona Institutes for Resilience (AIR) (formerly inst. of the envt) Kim Ogden, Pete Waller
- UA GIS user group on campus - they have monthly meetings. Andy H. is trying to build the GIS community on campu
- Integration: integration with different groups/organizations/scientists

# General Areas of Interest for Group

- Research applications
- Other aerial platforms
- what is available on campus?
- esp. what sensors are being used?
- what expertise exists on campus?
- hardware available for shared pool?
- Legal
- Liabilities & Insurance
- regulation
- would be useful to have a group that consolidates this information
- group could facilitate getting over these hurdles
- nat'l defense auth. act will prevent use of DJI (!?) what are other options? Might be able to be grandfathered in, e.g. if already registered. Currently fuzzy.
- flight registration https://skyvector.com/
- Shared protocols
- End-to-end process for flying (from obtaining permission through post-flight)
- Apps, processes, storage, data management
- Grant proposal assistance
- tying into / calibrating other sensing platforms, e.g. satellite calibration; planes; MAC field phenomics

## Possible starting points?

- Gather information on what UA offers to drone users and make public. Get a list of what platforms and sensors are available on Campus: a working document: include costs
- Develop and provide high-level overview of processes for flying drones (from obtaining permission through post-flight)
- Begin identifying and providing information on processing captured data by data type (AgiSoft, QGIS, etc): availability, licensing, where to get more information. Open source information as well
- Define how help can be asked for and responded to: listserv? Online forum?
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## Open questions:

- What online presence should we have & how do we make it available?
- MS Teams, Confluence (ask Matt Rahr), OSF
- Meeting notifications,
- Notifications of related activities of interest on campus and beyond
- Database of resources on campus
- people
- platforms
- sensors
- research activities
- protocols
- software, pipelines
- licenses - Wim bought a 30-45 Pix4D licenses, integrated w/ ArcGIS but don't permit remote desktop
- campus Agisoft license on HPC is free, can also be used on laptop - see Tyson
- UA has an ArcGIS license that anyone can use
- data storage & publications
- David, Tyson have a 300 TB storage node on CyVerse
- CyVerse has a soft-cap of 10 TB free storage, this will go away after the project ends from NSF in 2023

## Follow up:

- Confluence and/or web site for holding documents
- On campus visit from someone to talk about campus saftey and liability insurance (Herbert Wagner).
- Sign up as SIG Special Interest Group on campus https://confluence.arizona.edu/display/UIPR/IT+SIGs

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Links:
- https://www.faa.gov/uas/recreational_fliers/
- https://risk.arizona.edu/campus-safety/drones-on-campus/drone-approval-request
- https://skyvector.com/
- If you wanted to become a SIG Special Interest Group on campus this site might help https://confluence.arizona.edu/display/UIPR/IT+SIGs
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