Collaborative session notes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vHlbWFgvmryjjpKtdZWIyYJ46PceIDr4/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104358842683409363823&rtpof=true&sd=true

Small uncrewed aircraft systems (sUAS, also known as drones, remotely piloted aircraft or uncrewed aerial vehicles) and Autonomous platforms have become important tools for collecting data from the environment. They offer the potential to acquire data at higher temporal and spatial resolutions and in environments that are too hazardous to work in. Today, with the development of miniaturised sensors and the availability of performant autopilot hardware and software, they have become accessible and cost-effective platforms for collecting high volumes of data.

While cloud computing infrastructures can offer the necessary scalability for processing the large volumes of data produced by these platforms, the lack of common data and metadata practices is a barrier to interoperability and reuse.

Following the example of marine autonomous platforms, which is much further advanced in terms of data and metadata standardisation, the aim of the Small Uncrewed Aircraft and Autonomous Platforms Data WG is to produce recommendations for data and metadata coming from sUAS and autonomous platforms to support interoperability and reuse of these data in research data infrastructures.

Objectives for this session are:

1. Introducing the Small Uncrewed Aircraft and Autonomous Platforms Data WG
2. Summarise notable advances of the WG since the P22 plenary through the presentation of the landscape survey and the use case compilation
3. Discuss priorities issues and discuss key outputs of the Working Group

•       Introduction to the group (10 min)
•       Presentation of the landscape survey (10 min)
•       Use case compilation and report from the community (25 min)
•       Discussion of the priorities of the Working Group activities as the future direction of the WG
  • TOPIC 1: interoperability and metadata (20min)
  • TOPIC2: awareness around ethics (20min)
•       Closing remarks (5 min)

Operators of sUAS missions
Scientists who collect and analyse UAS data
Research cloud infrastructure providers
Metadata practitioners