UAS Flight Operations for Emergency Response

Course Description
The UAS Flight Operations for Emergency Response course will prepare first responders with technical resources, knowledge, and experience to deploy UAS for a variety of emergency response scenarios. The course will cover rules and regulations, mission planning, airspace coordination, platform and sensor selection, risk assessment and mitigation, flight operations, data collection, and metadata retention.

Course Objectives
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to plan and execute UAS flight operations to capture data to inform emergency response operations.
Mission Areas
Prevent
Protect
Respond
Recover
Mitigation

Emergency Management
Emergency Medical Services
Fire Service
Law Enforcement

Prerequisites
Learners should be familiar operating standard computer equipment such as smart phones, tablets, and laptops.