PrintWelcome to Lesson 3! In this lesson, you will become familiar with the concept of operating a UAS and how to design a Concept of Operation (CONOP). The CONOP subject focuses on the pre-flight description of the mission that a UAS operation will go through. You will also learn how to analyze risks surrounding UAS operations and to how to assess and mitigate the impact of such risks.
Lesson Objectives
At the successful completion of this lesson, you should be able to:
- understand the concept of operation design strategy;
- understand risk assessment;
- design a CONOP and Risk assessment for a UAS mission.
Lesson Readings
- Gebre-Egziabher, D., et al., "Analysis of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Concept of Operations in ITS Applications"
- FAA document “Integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems into the National Airspace System Concept of Operations”
- Read chapter 7 "Safety Assessment" of textbook 1: Barnhart, et al., Introduction to Unmanned Aircraft Systems, 2nd edition
- Lamb, G., et al., "Air Combat Command"
- CONOP developed by NOAA’s National Weather Service : "River Forecast Center (RFC) Analysis and Gridded Forecast Editor Improvement"
Lesson Activities
- Complete your CONOP and Risk assessment analysis as described above. Drop your completed MS Word document in the drop box in lesson 5. Watch for the actual assignment due date. (7 points)
- Complete the Lesson 3 Quiz.
- Preliminary Project Idea Milestone: submit preliminary project idea/proposal in the "Preliminary project idea" dropbox.
- Pix4D is the data processing software you will use to process UAS imagery. Install the Pix4D software using the instructions in Canvas.
- Download and practice Mission Planner Software with these instructions.
- Complete your CONOP and Risk assessment analysis as detailed in the section entitled "Development of CONOP and Risk Assessment." Drop your completed MS Word document in the drop box. Watch for the actual assignment due date. (7 points)