Two parallel sessions of 1,5 hours were be held during The Future Is Today. These sessions consisted of 3 workshops of 20-25 minutes with speakers from different organizations and sectors. Click the title of the presentation to download it in .pdf format.

First round sessions

A) Workshop Agriculture I
Chairman: John Bal, ZLTO

• ‘Remote sensing in Agriculture‘ by Corné Kempenaar – Wageningen University & Research
• ‘Droneworks in the agricultural sector‘ by Bert Rijk – Aurea Imaging
• ‘Experiences from the Agricultural practice‘ by Maarten Janse – Boerderij De Heerlijkheid van Wolphaartsdijk

B) Workshop Nature
Chairman: Paul Ganzevles – Grenspark de Zoom Kalmthoutse Heide

• ‘Monitoring vegetation and prevention of collision with birds‘ by Mark de Haan – Aeret
• ‘Wildlife Tracking‘ by Dirk Gorissen

C) Workshop Law & Legislation
Chairman: Rob van Nieuwland, DARPAS

• ‘The role of DARPAS in the future of flying with drones‘ by Rob van Nieuwland – DARPAS
• ‘Dutch Law & Legislation of RPAS use‘ by P.E.L. (Petra) Syaifoel – Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat
• ‘Route to a RPAS Operator Certificate (ROC) or ROC-light licence‘ by Berry Verstraaten – GeoInfra B.V.

Second round sessions

D) Workshop Agriculture II
Chairman: Jelle Lecomte, ILVO

• ‘Precision farming through remote sensing‘ by Koen Mertens – ILVO
• ‘Use of satellite imagesin combination with drone images‘ by Tamme van der Wal – Aerovision / WUR
• ‘Drone data for business optimization‘ by Huub van der Velden – ZLTO

E) Workshop Water & Infrastructure
Chairman: Jarno de Jong, GeoInfra B.V.

• ‘Experiences and best practises of RPAS application by Rijkswaterstaat‘ by Aad van den Burg – Rijkswaterstaat
• ‘Do’s and Dont’s in the use of robotics in Water & Infrastructure‘ by Haroen Lemmers and Nick Cornelissen – Waternet
• ‘Remote Sensing; the merging of data from various gathering solutions. Visualizing data, information management from the cloud. The road to higher productivity and quality. Where do you want to go?‘ by Barry Engelen – Topcon

F) Workshop Technology
Chairman: Mario Ferraro, University of Southampton

• ‘Drone Architecture‘ by Mario Ferraro – University of Southampton
• ‘Application and Sensor / Camera techniques‘ by Lammert Kooistra –Wageningen University & Research
• ‘Lidar versus photogrammetry‘ by Pieter Franken – Skeye
• ‘Discover the UX11, a New Large-area Mapping Drone with 3G/4G Communications‘ by Peter Cosyn, Delair