A Kahn Institute Short Course
Friday, Sept. 28
10:00am – 12:00pm Photogrammetry Tutorial with Pix4D with Angad Singh
12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch (Kahn Institute)
1:00pm – 4:00pm Cont. Pix4D Tutorial
5:00pm "Drone for Good: Perceptions & Policy" by Faine Greenwood, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall)
6:30pm Dinner (Kahn Institute)
Saturday, Sept. 29
9:00am Breakfast (Kahn Institute)
10:00am – 2:00pm Colloquium, Lunch, and Hands-on Flying at MacLeish (MacLeish Field Station)
Readings
General
- "What Drones Can Do and How They Can Do It" (Ch. 1 in Drones and Aerial Observation)
- Drones Are Here to Stay. Get Used to It.
Pix4D
Resources
Films & Film Festivals
- Donny the Drone (short film by Mackenzie Sheppard)
- Eye in the Sky
- NYC Film Festival
- LA Film Festival
Podcasts
Local Media
- The Use of Drones - Paul Voss & Jon Caris discuss drones on WGBY Connecting Point, April 2015
- The Bill Newman Show on WHMP (discussion begins at 20:40 and plays till 32:10), February, 2015
- Valley Advocate - Drones on the Horizon: What It Means for You, September 2016
Drones for Humanities/Higher Ed Networks
- Five College Drones for Humanities
- UMassAir
- Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
- Humanitarian UAV Network
Local Ordinances
Drone Campus Policies
Research at Smith
- Drones @ Smith College - Spatial Analysis Lab drone capabilities and resources
- Bringing Back Paradise
- St. Catherines Island, GA
- Rapid Assessment of Hurricane Joaquin, San Salvador, The Bahamas
- Geomorphology at Popham Beach, Maine
- Coral Reefs and Mangrove Forests, Ambergris Caye, Belize
Critical Drone Centers / Conferences / Publications
- Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
- World of Drones, New America
- DRONES AND AERIAL OBSERVATION:New Technologies for Property Rights, Human Rights, and Global Development, A Primer, 2015
- Drones and Aerial Robotics Conference (DARC) Law and Policy Guidebook, 2013