status: Recognised & Endorsed
Chair (s): Jane Wyngaard, Lindsay Barbieri, Dimane Mpoeleng
Group Email: [group_email]
Secretariat Liaison: enquiries[at]rd-alliance.org
Update: In the immediate much of our disucssions are happening on this Slack channel, to join see this link
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) are rapidly becoming important tools for data capture across many Scientific domains, as well as within commercial industry. sUAS have the potential to transform how data are captured in many arenas by, offering higher temporal and spatial resolutions, with less impact on the environments being monitored, and access to new locations and parameters. In many cases these advantages are further accompanied by lowered costs and increased human safety during data capture.
As a new technology, however, there are currently no industry-wide accepted best practices for sUAS sensor and flight data handling and management. There are many reasons for why such would be beneficial but 3 of particular note include:
- The creation of standards would lower the barrier to entry and innovation in terms of what might be monitored with sUAS, by reducing the number of unknowns a new user faces and providing working examples to serve as guides.
- With no common goal standards to build to, the development of mature tools for sUAS captured data processing and fusion (with sUAS and other data sources) is currently hampered. As a consequence, each use case generally develops a unique custom pipeline that only sees one-time use.
- sUAS captured data is - for the most part - not being managed according to data stewardship best practices, such as would ensure the data is FAIR, as articulated by Force11 (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable).
This interest group therefore seeks to explore and publish (via the RDA community based model), some best practices as regards the handling of sUAS captured sensor and flight data. By publishing such, after a broad, cross-community engagement process, it is hoped and expected that such will see adoption by both those already using sUAS for scientific work those just beginning to explore their possibilities. They will therefore address the 3 concerns laid out above, with the associated positive consequences for the scientific community. These outcomes also align directly with the RDA’s Vision and Mission focus, namely, promoting the open sharing of data.
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[dronedata] Invitation to participate in 'A Decade of Data: 10 Years of the RDA' events and activities
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Invitation to participate in 'A Decade of Data: 10 Years of the RDA' events and activities
by Connie Clare
Good day, The RDA Secretariat would like to invite the Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems’ Data IG to participate in ‘A Decade of Data’: Celebrating 10 Years of the Research Data Alliance’. 10 months to celebrate 10 years of the RDA0 | Add new comment
RDA Virtual Plenary 18 draft programme now available
Dear Group Co-Chairs, The RDA Virtual Plenary 18 (VP18) draft programme is now available: https://www.rd-alliance.org/rdas-18th-plenary-meeting-programme. Please note that the Plenary dates have been revised to 3-11 November 2021.0 | Add new comment
Call for updates in this space as we plan the next effort
Hi all We submitted "Progress: The needle is moving on small unstaffed vehicles data" to RDA for the next virtual plenary (3-18 November 2021)0 | Add new comment
RDA Virtual Plenary 18 - Notification of Acceptance
Dear Chairs of the Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems' Data IG, Congratulations! Your RDA Virtual Plenary 18 (VP18) session application titled Progress: The needle is moving on small unstaffed vehicles data has been approved by the Technical Advisory Board (TAB). Please consider this your official notification of acceptance.0 | Add new comment
RDA VP18 Session Proposal Submission
Dear Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Data IG members, Thank you for your session proposal for Virtual Plenary 18 titled “Progress: The needle is moving on small unstaffed vehicles data”. A review of all submitted proposals is now underway by the RDA Technical Advisory Board, with notifications of acceptance planned to be sent by 10 September. Please feel free to contact the RDA Secretariat at ***@***.***-alliance.org with any questions or concerns you have regarding your submission. Thank you. Regards,0 | Add new comment
Online seminar series - “Exploring annotation and metadata initiatives for engineering data” - Last two seminars of the series!
Hi there, The last two online seminars of the series “Exploring annotation and metadata initiatives for engineering data” will take place on the 25th of Septmeber and 9th of October. We hope to see you there!0 | Add new comment
Online seminar series - “Exploring annotation and metadata initiatives for engineering data” - Next session on 15. September 2020
Dear all, After the summer break we are ready to continue with the online seminar series “Exploring annotation and metadata initiatives for engineering data” organized by our IG-RDMinEng.0 | Add new comment
Upcoming Events and Deadlines
Dear Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems' Data Interest Group members, We’d like to share these important news items for your information.0 | Add new comment