Version 1
: Received: 6 December 2019 / Approved: 8 December 2019 / Online: 8 December 2019 (17:50:04 CET)
Version 2
: Received: 10 December 2019 / Approved: 10 December 2019 / Online: 10 December 2019 (07:50:33 CET)
He, X.; Hua, X.; Montillet, J.-P.; Yu, K.; Zou, J.; Xiang, D.; Zhu, H.; Zhang, D.; Huang, Z.; Zhao, B. An Innovative Virtual Simulation Teaching Platform on Digital Mapping with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Remote Sensing Education. Remote Sens.2019, 11, 2993.
He, X.; Hua, X.; Montillet, J.-P.; Yu, K.; Zou, J.; Xiang, D.; Zhu, H.; Zhang, D.; Huang, Z.; Zhao, B. An Innovative Virtual Simulation Teaching Platform on Digital Mapping with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Remote Sensing Education. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 2993.
He, X.; Hua, X.; Montillet, J.-P.; Yu, K.; Zou, J.; Xiang, D.; Zhu, H.; Zhang, D.; Huang, Z.; Zhao, B. An Innovative Virtual Simulation Teaching Platform on Digital Mapping with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Remote Sensing Education. Remote Sens.2019, 11, 2993.
He, X.; Hua, X.; Montillet, J.-P.; Yu, K.; Zou, J.; Xiang, D.; Zhu, H.; Zhang, D.; Huang, Z.; Zhao, B. An Innovative Virtual Simulation Teaching Platform on Digital Mapping with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Remote Sensing Education. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 2993.
Abstract
This work mainly discusses an innovative teaching platform on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle digital mapping for Remote Sensing (RS) education at Wuhan University, underlining the fast development of RS technology. Firstly, we introduce and discuss the future development of the Virtual Simulation Experiment Teaching Platform for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VSETP-UAV). It includes specific topics such as the Systems and function Design, teaching and learning strategies, and experimental methods. This study shows that VSETP-UAV expands the usual content and training methods related to RS education, and creates a good synergy between teaching and research. The results also show that the VSETP-UAV platform is of high teaching quality producing excellent engineers, with high international standards and innovative skills in the RS field. In particular, it develops students' practical skills with technical manipulations of dedicated hardware and software equipment (e.g., UAV) in order to assimilate quickly this particular topic. Therefore, students report that this platform is more accessible from an educational point-of-view than theoretical programs, with a quick way of learning basic concepts of RS. Finally, the proposed VSETP-UAV platform achieves a high social influence, expanding the practical content and training methods of UAV based experiments, and providing a platform for producing high-quality national talents with internationally recognized topics related to emerging engineering education.
Keywords
unmanned aerial vehicle; undergraduate education; remote sensing; surveying and mapping
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Space and Planetary Science
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Commenter: Xiaoxing He
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