Upskilling and reskilling in underwater documentation technologies

Reskilling and upskilling in blue, green and digital skills for vital sectors of the blue economy. The theoretical and practical course will provide participants with interdisciplinary blue and digital skills on up-to-date coastal and underwater documentation and mapping technologies in the framework of the EU projet uBlueTec (www.ubluetec.eu) and Amidex project MANTA network, enriched with green skills.

2 days (12 hours) - online courses
and 5 days (30 hours) - in the field
Online: 17-18 June 2024
On the field: 24-28 June 2024

The fieldwork training will comprise coastal and UW topography with Total station (and data treatment in QGIS), coastal and UW photogrammetry (and data treatment in Metashape), integration of data in QGIS and ROV piloting, more specifically ASVs and ROVs (in collaboration with the Univ. of Calabria, Zagreb and ANP-WWF).
Day 1 - 24/06/2024 - 9h-12h / 13h-16h - Shallow-water topographical survey with Total station and data treatment in @QGIS.
Day 2 - 24/06/2024 - 9h-12h / 13h-16h - Aerial and underwater photogrammetric recording

Day 3 - 25/06/2024 - 9h-12h / 13h-16h - Treatment of data using QGIS and @Agisoft-Metashape softwares

Day 4 - 26/06/2024 - 9h-12h / 13h-16h - Piloting of remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs), training, data collection and treatment.

Day 5 - 27/06/2024 - 9h-12h / 13h-16h
Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) with sensors for micro-bathymetry in shallow waters, training, data collection and treatment.

Students and professionals wishing to upskill in UW documentation techniques or re-introduced to innovative robotic UW technologies from sectors of maritime archaeology, coastal geomorphology, marine engineering, marine biology, coastal and marine geology, marine robotics, etc.

All participants can follow the component of online classes on coastal documentation techniques, and digital and green skills. In case participants wish to follow the courses that involve diving, specialized diving certificates, medical certificates and diving insurance are mandatory (please contact the responsible for further information). Also, each participant will participate with its personal diving equipment.

The training will take place in a submerged archaeological site in Greece and the participants will face real research challenges (in the principle of training by research - formation par la recherche).
At the end of the course, participants will have acquired experience in a series of coastal and underwater documentation techniques in real conditions of UW research, including innovative robotic UW technologies, as well as the treatment of digital interdisciplinary data. All courses will be enriched with green skills via systematic on-line courses.

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