The Drone & sUAV Pilot Logbook has been created by National Geographic Creative photographer and sUAV expert Kike Calvo, author of the National Geographic "Drones and Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles " blog series to fulfill the needs of drone pilots. This Log will help you keep a detailed record of all your flying missions, regardless of your experience.

"Photogrammetry with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) is a rapidlymaturing technology. Being versatile and inexpensive, it has the potentialto offer solutions in a wide range of applications, such as forestry inventory, precision agriculture, flood hazard assessment, pollution monitoring, land survey, and integrity assessment of industrial facilities. Written in the form of a fieldguide, this book explains, in easy-to-understand language, basic concepts ofphotogrammetry and spatial data, and techniques for mosaicking drone photos.The book is not intended as a complete...

Kikeo and The Whale is a beautiful story that submerges first readers in a sea of adventure.The oceans sustain all life on Earth. It gives our children, and us, half of the oxygen we breath and the seafood we eat, it regulates our climate, and captures much of the carbon pollution we put in the atmosphere - and it also allows us to have fun, learn and explore. Overfishing, pollution, and climate change are the main threats to ocean life. In the same way our Pristine Seas project works to inspire governments to create large protected areas, other conservation efforts are happening around the...

Kikeo and The Whale is a beautiful story that submerges first readers in a sea of adventure.The oceans sustain all life on Earth. It gives our children, and us, half of the oxygen we breath and the seafood we eat, it regulates our climate, and captures much of the carbon pollution we put in the atmosphere - and it also allows us to have fun, learn and explore. Overfishing, pollution, and climate change are the main threats to ocean life. In the same way our Pristine Seas project works to inspire governments to create large protected areas, other conservation efforts are happening around the...

What is inside this book? - Intro to Using Drones for Conservation - New Technologies and Remote Communities - Logbook Keeping and Mission Planning . Best Ways to Back Up Your Aerial Footage and Stills - Understanding the Basics of Infrared Cameras - Case Studies from Yale, Harvard, National Geographic and more. Foreword by Thomas E. Lovejoy, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University, and National Geographic Conservation Fellow "Drones for conservation is essentially just in its infancy, but while we can lament the possible consequent avoidance of a good...