Overview
This collaborative workshop was held on July 26 and 27th, 2005 on the campus of California State University at Monterey Bay. It's purpose was to understand the most promising applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for Land and Coastal Management issues.

During the collaborative session the participants explored the key issues and concerns in four major areas:

  • Agriculture
  • Wildlife
  • Wildfire and disaster managment, and
  • Coastal zone management.

They then defined a set of UAV mission scenarios that could gather the needed data and information to address these key needs and concerns. Then they examined the sensors that could obtain those data, and the UAAV platforms that could potentially perform those missions.

The workshop provided an excellent opportunity to initiate a collaborative relationship between the land and coastal management communities and NASA in the area of UAV technology research, development and application.

On behalf of NASA and all the sponsoring groups, we would like to thank all of the participants for their enthusiatic participation in the workshop. The results were very helpful, and we look forward to being in touch as we progress on the development of new UAV capabilities and platforms.

 

Real Time Record
This web site is a record of the event in Monterey, California as it happened - captured in real time and presented here in this web site. The documentation of the session includes text and images that were captured throughout the course of each day of the session and is chronological (in the order that things happened). The text is not a transcription of the event. Rather, it represents the documentor's synthesis of the team reports and group discussions.

This record is intended as a reminder to the participants of the conversations that took place during the summit, as a stimulus for further conversation and it serves as an artifact of the group's work.

For anyone who was not present at the event reading this, you may lose some of the energy and creativity the participants expressed - and some of the ideas may not translate completely without that context. If you have any questions about the content or anything that is represented here please speak to someone that participated in the process.

Images
Photographs of participants and their work are included throughout the Real Time Record. To view a larger version of a marker board or chart page, click on the thumbnail image. The larger image will open in a new window.

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