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Swansea University: Environmental Drone Remote Sensing

Institution Swansea University View institution profile
Department Geography View department profile
Web https://www.swansea.ac.uk/science-and-engineering
Study type Taught

Summary

This MSc programme teaches the knowledge, skills and understanding to create and utilise high resolution remote sensing data for real world, practical applications, using sensors flown on drone platforms.

Students will gain the skills, experience and knowledge to operate a drone safely and within current Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) regulations. This will comprise theoretical and practical flight training and assessment. This component will be taught in part by an external CAA accredited training provider and students will graduate with the additional CAA drone/UAV remote pilot competency accreditation: General Visual line of sight Certificate (GVC).

Building on these skills, students will learn the complete workflow required to capture and analyse remote sensing data from a drone platform, with a focus on environmental needs. This will include the knowledge and understanding for high quality image capture, flight design and planning, data collection and image processing.

Why Environmental Drone Remote Sensing at Swansea? Top 100 in the World (Shanghai Ranking Subject Rankings 2024) Top 201-250 in the World for Environmental Sciences (QS World University Rankings 2025) 90% of our research outputs have been recognised as world-leading and internationally excellent - Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 100% of the environment was rated as world-leading and internationally excellent - Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021

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