Kick-off Meeting September 20, 2019
Edmonds City Hall, Edmonds, WA
We had our kick-off meeting to discuss the use of drones in local public agencies in Western Washington. We met in the City of Edmonds on Sept 20, 2019. This summit was made possible through the collaborative efforts of Greg Lang from Pierce County, Peter Keum from King County and David Rohde from City of Edmonds.
Public agencies from Washington state counties, cities, and tribe organizations were present. We wanted to use this forum to communicate and share information relating to small drone use.
Meeting Summary
Goal of this kick-off meeting was to share, to learn, and to practice using small drones for local WA Puget Sound public agencies. Here is general outline of the meeting. Presentation Slide Link.
Part I: Learn
Discussed three possible levels of prosumer drone packages.
- Simple: DJI Mavic Air + paper notebook + free apps for imagery and/or video products.
- Mid-Level: DJI Mavic Pro + Free flight planning app + spreadsheet/notebook + Flight control app + Data Processing Software = Orthomosaic imagery data and/or 3D models.
- Enterprise: DJI Matrice/Inspire + Planning app/Desktop Tracking software + Advance control app + Data Processing software = Orthomosaic photos and 3D models in various formats.
Discussed Best Practices for Data storages and access: Using Esri Image Server or Enterprise DroneDeploy program for data management.
Part II: Share
- Discussed various use cases by different agencies.
- Described current projects each agencies are carrying out.
- Potential and desired projects for future work.
- Best practices - policy and procedures discussion.
Recap from InterDrone Conference 2019, link here.
Greg Lang from Pierce County shared following information.
- Pierce County RPAS Program Link.
- AerialMetric Site to help get elevation data. Link
- USGS National Map - Another source for elevation data. Link
- Lastly, Greg flew the drone on nearby field to demonstrate workflow of planning to flying to processing data. Here is a result of the flight. DroneDeploy Link
Next Meeting:
- January 24, 2020.
- Location : Pierce County Administrative Office
- 2401 S 35th St #200 Tacoma, WA
- Topic Agenda: TBD
Questions and Comments
Please Email comments and suggestions to Peter Keum: keum.peter@gmail.com