{"id":401,"date":"2021-05-17T15:51:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T20:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtlott.vtol.org\/?p=401"},"modified":"2021-05-27T18:36:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T23:36:33","slug":"conference-vertical-flight-aerial-agriculture-application-operations-tuesday-june-1-2021-500-pm-edt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtlott.vtol.org\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"Conference – Vertical Flight Aerial Agriculture Application Operations – Tuesday, June 1, 2021. 5:00 pm EDT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Vertical Flight Aerial Agriculture Application Operations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, June 1,2021. 5:00 pm EDT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vertical Flight Society<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ottawa-Montreal Chapter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

REGISTER HERE : <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/vtol.org\/webinars<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

****VERSION FRAN\u00c7AISE EN BAS DE PAGE****<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Montreal-Ottawa Chapter of the Vertical Flight Society is presenting a 70-minute webinar on \u201cVertical Flight<\/strong> Aerial Application Agricultural<\/strong> Operations\u201d <\/strong>on Tuesday, June 1 with speakers from both the Canadian commercial helicopter and drone (UAV) industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rotorcraft have been used for aerial application operations for agricultural, forestry and insect management since the 1930s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first rotorcraft to be used were Cierva and Pitcairn autogyros modified in the 1930s. In 1946, Bell Aircraft certified the Model 47 with several aerial application kits for aerial spraying and dusting for crop spraying and insect control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This panel discussion will provide an historic overview of helicopter aerial application operations, piloting challenges, the design and development of modern aerial application (spray & solid) systems, and the use of VTOL drones in aerial sensing and aerial spraying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Historical Prospective: Ken Swartz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Helicopter Spray System Design: Westley Reid, DART<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Academic Research: Mozhdeh Shahbazi, PhD, PEng, Centre de g\u00e9omatique du Qu\u00e9bec<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Drone spraying: Nicolas DesChamps and Gil Weisman, Drone DesChamps<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaker Bios<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken Swartz<\/strong> is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Vertical Flight Society and Senior Editor of Vertiflite magazine and the Electric VTOL News website. He has worked in the commercial aviation industry for 30+ years and is one of Canada\u2019s leading aviation and rotorcraft journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wesley Reid<\/strong> \u2013 DART Aerospace. In a 14 year aerospace career, Wesley has touched on fixed wing aircraft maintenance, helicopter structures design and technical marketing of helicopter mission equipment. Currently heading up product strategy as Lead Product Manager for DART Aerospace and he also serves as Vice-President of the Montreal-Ottawa Chapter of the Vertical Flight Society. He is a mechanical engineer licensed with the Ordre des ing\u00e9nieurs du Qu\u00e9bec and holder of a Transport Canada Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) recreational pilot’s license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mozhdeh Shahbazi,<\/strong> PhD is the secretary of Working Group I, Technical Commission II of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), the vice president of the Canadian Remote Sensing Society (CRSS), the chair of Working Group III at the CRSS, the associate editor of Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing and the co-editor in chief of Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems. She holds a BSc degree in survey engineering, an MSc degree in photogrammetry engineering, and a PhD degree in applied geomatics\/remote sensing. She also holds several academic certificates in the fields of computer vision and artificial intelligence. She joined the Department of Geomatics Engineering as a professor at the University of Calgary in 2016. Since 2018, she has also been an adjunct professor at York University in the Earth and Space Science and Engineering graduate program. In 2019, she took on the role of the lead scientist at the Centre de g\u00e9omatique du Qu\u00e9bec, a college-based center for technology transfer, where she is now active as the scientific manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicolas DesChamps<\/strong> is the son and the brother of farmers. He has a degree in Mechanical Design, is an experienced drone pilot, and is passionate about innovative technologies such as drones and robotics. He founded Drone Des Champs project, when he arrived in Canada as a French immigrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gil Weisman<\/strong> joined the Drone Des Champs adventure not long ago. He has a master’s degree in business and has extensive experience in distribution, negotiation and entrepreneurship, having founded an eCommerce company in Canada. Like Nicolas, he is a French immigrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La section Montr\u00e9al-Ottawa de la Vertical Flight Society (VFS) pr\u00e9sente un webinaire de 70 minutes sur les op\u00e9rations agricoles d’application a\u00e9rienne<\/strong> mardi le 1er juin avec des conf\u00e9renciers de l’industrie canadienne d\u2019h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res commerciaux et de drones (SATP).<\/p>\n

Vue d’ensemble :<\/strong><\/p>\n

Les giravions sont utilis\u00e9s pour les op\u00e9rations d’\u00e9pandage a\u00e9rien pour l’agriculture, la foresterie et la lutte contre les insectes depuis 1930. Les premiers giravions \u00e0 \u00eatre utilis\u00e9s furent des autogyres Cierva et Pitcairn modifi\u00e9s. En 1946, Bell a certifi\u00e9 le mod\u00e8le 47 avec plusieurs kits d’application pour la pulv\u00e9risation a\u00e9rienne et le d\u00e9poussi\u00e9rage pour la pulv\u00e9risation des cultures et la lutte contre les insectes. Cette table ronde fournira un aper\u00e7u historique des op\u00e9rations d’application a\u00e9rienne par h\u00e9licopt\u00e8re, des d\u00e9fis du pilotage, de la conception et du d\u00e9veloppement de syst\u00e8mes modernes pulv\u00e9risation et de l’utilisation de drones VTOL dans la d\u00e9tection a\u00e9rienne et la pulv\u00e9risation a\u00e9rienne.<\/p>\n

Conf\u00e9renciers <\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Perspective historique: Ken Swartz<\/li>\n
  2. Pilotage d’h\u00e9licopt\u00e8re: Vincent D\u00e9ry<\/li>\n
  3. Conception du syst\u00e8me de pulv\u00e9risation d’h\u00e9licopt\u00e8re: Dan Wright, DART<\/li>\n
  4. Recherche acad\u00e9mique: Mozhdeh Shahbazi, PhD, PEng, Centre de g\u00e9omatique du Qu\u00e9bec<\/li>\n
  5. L\u2019\u00e9pandage par drone: Nicolas DesChamps and Gil Weisman, Drone DesChamps<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Biographies de conf\u00e9renciers<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Ken Swartz<\/strong> est membre du conseil d’administration de la Vertical Flight Society et r\u00e9dacteur en chef du magazine Vertiflite et du site Web Electric VTOL News. Il travaille dans l\u2019industrie de l\u2019aviation commerciale depuis plus de 30 ans et est l\u2019un des principaux journalistes de l\u2019aviation et des giravions au Canada.<\/p>\n

    Vincent D\u00e9ry<\/strong> est un pilote d’h\u00e9licopt\u00e8re qui travaille actuellement dans l’industrie des lignes \u00e9lectriques o\u00f9 il pilote \u00e9galement le MD500 et l’Airbus 350 A-Star. Il a obtenu sa licence de pilote professionnel d’h\u00e9licopt\u00e8re du Centre Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois de Formation A\u00e9ronautique (CQFA) \u00e0 Chicoutimi, Qu\u00e9bec en 2015. Il a d\u00e9but\u00e9 sa carri\u00e8re dans l’industrie a\u00e9ronautique agricole o\u00f9 il a travaill\u00e9 pendant un an comme op\u00e9rateur au sol. Apr\u00e8s, il a pilot\u00e9 le Bell 206B Jet Ranger et le Robinson R44 \u00e0 des fins de pulv\u00e9risation a\u00e9rienne pendant deux ans.<\/p>\n

    Dan Wright<\/strong> est actuellement conseiller principal de DART Aerospace, qui a acquis Simplex Aerospace en 2019. Au cours de ses 36 ann\u00e9es de carri\u00e8re, Dan s’est tourn\u00e9 vers le d\u00e9veloppement de produits qui r\u00e9pondent aux probl\u00e8mes du monde r\u00e9el. V\u00e9t\u00e9ran de l’US Air Force, la carri\u00e8re de Dan est pass\u00e9e d’initiatives complexes de remotorisation d’h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res avec Soloy Aviation, de fabrication de mat\u00e9riaux composites avec le Composite Universal Group de Portland, Oregon, puis de conception d’\u00e9quipement de mission pour Morgan Aircraft et de mission d’application a\u00e9rienne et de lutte contre les incendies.<\/p>\n

    Mozhdeh Shahbazi<\/strong>, PhD est la secr\u00e9taire du Groupe de travail I, Commission technique II de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 internationale de photogramm\u00e9trie et de t\u00e9l\u00e9d\u00e9tection (ISPRS), la vice-pr\u00e9sidente de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 canadienne de t\u00e9l\u00e9d\u00e9tection (CRSS), la pr\u00e9sidente du Groupe de travail III au CRSS , r\u00e9dacteure en chef adjoint du Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing et co-r\u00e9dactrice en chef du Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems. Elle est titulaire d’un baccalaur\u00e9at en g\u00e9nie des lev\u00e9s, d’une ma\u00eetrise en g\u00e9nie de la photogramm\u00e9trie et d’un doctorat en g\u00e9omatique appliqu\u00e9e \/ t\u00e9l\u00e9d\u00e9tection. Elle d\u00e9tient \u00e9galement plusieurs certificats acad\u00e9miques dans les domaines de la vision par ordinateur et de l’intelligence artificielle. Elle s’est jointe au d\u00e9partement de g\u00e9nie g\u00e9omatique en tant que professeure \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 de Calgary en 2016. Depuis 2018, elle est \u00e9galement professeure auxiliaire \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 York dans le cadre du programme d’\u00e9tudes sup\u00e9rieures en sciences et g\u00e9nie de la Terre et de l’espace. En 2019, elle a assum\u00e9 le r\u00f4le de scientifique principale au Centre de g\u00e9omatique du Qu\u00e9bec, un centre coll\u00e9gial de transfert de technologie, o\u00f9 elle est maintenant active en tant que gestionnaire scientifique.<\/p>\n

    Nicolas DesChamps<\/strong> est le fils et le fr\u00e8re d\u2019agriculteurs. Il est dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en conception m\u00e9canique, pilote de drone exp\u00e9riment\u00e9 et passionn\u00e9 par les technologies innovantes telles que les drones et la robotique. Il a fond\u00e9 le projet Drone Des Champs, \u00e0 son arriv\u00e9e au Canada en tant qu’immigrant Fran\u00e7ais.<\/p>\n

    Gil Weisman<\/strong> a rejoint l’aventure Drone Des Champs il n’y a pas longtemps. Il d\u00e9tient une ma\u00eetrise en affaires et poss\u00e8de une vaste exp\u00e9rience en distribution, n\u00e9gociation et entrepreneuriat, ayant fond\u00e9 une entreprise de commerce \u00e9lectronique au Canada. Comme Nicolas, il a immigr\u00e9 de France.<\/p>\n

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