The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - UAVs (or drones) has surged in the last two decades, leading to
remarkable changes in several remote sensing applications. However, the development of best practices
for high-quality UAV mapping is often overlooked representing a drawback for their adoption in different
domains. UAV solutions then require an interdisciplinary approach, integrating different expertise and
combining several hardware and software components on the same platform. This course aims to deliver
both theoretical and hands-on knowledge to acquire, process and interpret UAV data. The course
addresses three specific and alternative application domains: precision agriculture, water management
and scene understanding. The basics of UAV mapping using visible, multispectral and thermal images will
be given in the first module of the course. After this first module, the students will be asked to select one of
the different application domains.