Lesson 3 Introduction

Welcome 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"
• Chapter 7 of the textbook: Bankhart et al., Introduction to the Unmanned Aircraft Systems, 2nd edition

Lesson Activities