FRI-A06: Drone Technology and Landscape Architecture: Strategies for Integrated Workflows and Climate Action

Friday, October 27, 2023

9:00am – 10:30am CT

1.50 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, AIA/non-HSW, AICP, FL, NY/non-HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Arturo Merino, ASLA

Project Manager
Westwind Landscape Construction/ The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Speaker(s)

Anthony Fettes, ASLA, PLA (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor Landscape Architecture
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico

We invite you to learn how drone technologies and software applications augment landscape architecture's ability to fight climate change. Accurate site data and realistic visualizations are now more accessible to the profession's practice and education. This session proposes new drone data workflows for analysis, research, and planning.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand regulatory requirements, weather conditions, and drone operations.
Learn methods for reliable image data collection, processing, and output of high-quality mapping, digital surface models, heat zones, and 3D site models.
Learn how to implement drone data into action plan workflows.
Understand how drone mapping and visualization can be used for climate change assessments, action plan solutions, and progress tracking.