Programme

FinDrones 2023 – Drones in Bioeconomy and Rural Logistics
15.-16.2.2023 | Salo IoT Campus, Joensuunkatu 7, Salo, Finland

Day 1, Wednesday 15.2.2023

12:00 Registration

AUDITORIUM: (unless other room specified)

12:30 Opening ceremony

Mika Mannervesi, Director, City Development Services, City of Salo

Paavo Kosonen, Chairman, FinDrones 2023 Organizing Committee, University of Turku

12:45 Keynote Droonien käyttö asutusalueen ulkopuolella – sääntelynäkökulma, Eero Vihavainen, UAS Specialist, Geotrim Oy

13:15 Sponsor pitches

Wingtra – kiinteäsiipinen drone vaativaan ammattikäyttöön, Sami Nuutinen Wingtra AG

Datan jakaminen ja luvittaminen verkottuneessa datataloudessa – case droonikuvat, Jyrki Hyyrönmäki DataSpace Europe Oy & Petri Linna University of Tampere

14:00 Posters (Conference rooms 2001 and 2002), Drone Equipment Exhibition (Conference room 2009)

Coffee

14:20 Flight show (Auditorium and moving to viewing spots)

15:20 Session 1, Drone Services – Chairs Timo Teinilä & Olli-Pekka Ruponen

Keynote: Developing Innovative Agricultural Contractor Services – Chances to Succeed and Stumbling blocks, Christel Thijssen, owner of Loonbedrijf Thijssen and co-founder of DroneWerkers

Dronepohjaisen kasvinsuojeluruiskutuksen reunaehtoja peltoviljelyssä, Ari Ronkainen (Luke), Jere Kaivosoja, Pauliina Laitinen, Emilia Laitala

Designing a Semi-Autonomous Drone Swarm to Support Wildfire Management – A Concept of Operations Development Study, Hannu Karvonen (VTT), Eija Honkavaara, Juha Röning, Vadim Kramar, and Jukka Sassi

16:20 Innovation competition winners 

Innovaatiokilpailun esittely ja Salo IoT Campus Tervehdys, Paavo Kosonen (University of Turku) & Atte Köykkä (Salo IoT Campus)

Säästöpuuryhmien suunnittelu droonilla, Janne Tuominen ja Mikko Riimala (Tampere University of Applied Sciences)

16:30 – 17:30 Workshop: Työpaja: Kuinka saada lisää droonipalveluja maatalouteen?

Työpajan tavoitteena on informoida kiinnostuneita sidosryhmiä kehitteillä olevista ja jo valmistuvista droonikaukokartoitusta hyödyntävistä menetelmistä sekä luoda kontakteja palveluntarjoajien, menetelmien kehittäjien ja alkutuottajien välille. Menetelmiä kehitetään useissa tutkimuslaitosten hankkeissa ja osa menetelmistä on esillä FinDrones konferenssiesitelmänä tai posterina.

Alustusten jälkeen keskustelussa tavoitteena on löytää keinoja palvelujen kehittämisen nopeuttamiseksi sekä miettiä, mitkä palvelut ovat nyt lähinnä käyttöönottamista. Työpajan taustalla olevien hankkeiden puitteissa on mahdollista tehdä konkreettista yhteistoimintaa vuoden 2023 aikana.

Työpajan vetäjä: Panu Korhonen, Luke, etunimi.sukunimi@luke.fi

Järjestäjähankkeet: RehuDrooni, DrooniLuuppina ja FlexiGroBots

16:00 – 17:30 FinDrones 2023 Matchmaking – Meeting room University II

Short meetings agreed in matchmaking service.

17:30 Day 1 program ends

17:45 – 18:45 Guided tour of the Salo Electronics Museum

19:00 Conference Dinner at Astrum Center

Day 1 presentations mainly in Finnish except Keynote 2 in English.

Day 2, Thursday 16.2.2023

8:15 Registration

8:30 Posters (Conference rooms 2001 and 2002) & Drone Equipment Exhibition (Conference room 2009)

Remote Identification with UWBs for UAV Landing, Lei Fu (Turun yliopisto), Paola Torrico Morón, Jorge Peña Queralta and Tomi Westerlund

Integration of Fleet and Traffic Management systems with UAVs for high-level multi-robot operations and control, Daniel Montero (Turun yliopisto), Jorge Peña, Tomi Westerlund

Viljelijän datavaraston rasterikuvien ja geometriatasojen visualisointi, Moona Taavitsainen (JAMK), Samu Vesiluoma, Gilbert Ludwig, Hannu Haapala

Dynamic Scan Integration Time of Solid-State LiDAR for MAVs Tracking, Iacopo Catalano (Turun yliopisto), Qingqing Li, Jorge Peña and Tomi Westerlund

Multi-purpoSe Physical-cyber Agri-forest Drones Ecosystem for governance and environmental observation (SPADE), Anssi Rauhala (Oulun yliopisto), Anne Tuomela and Pekka Leviäkangas

AUDITORIUM:

9:00 Session 2, Logistics, Fleet Management, Communications – Chair Kimmo Paajanen

Keynote Integrating drones with society – case: Emergency medical services, Jonas Stjernberg, SVP and Partner at Robots Expert (REX)

How can U-space shape drone operations in rural areas? Vadim Kramar (VTT), Hannu Karvonen, Juha Roning, Tuomo Hänninen, Honkavaara Eija, Kimmo Paajanen, Tomi Oravasaari

Enabling Autonomous and Beyond Visual Line-of-sight (BVLOS) Drone Operations by pioneering the use of U-Space in Finland, Experiences from the Drolo Project, Petri Mononen (VTT) and Ville Kaariaho

Design of UAV-based Simulation for Search and Rescue Strategies Exploration, Thuan Phuoc Nguyen (University of Turku), Jorge Peña Queralta and Tomi Westerlund

Improving Network Coverage in Turku Archipelago by using Smart Mobile Access Points, Amin Majd (Turku University of Applied Sciences), Juha Kalliovaara, Tero Jokela and Jarkko Paavola

10:15 Coffee

10:30 Session 3 Nature values: Peat land, Rivers, Coast – Chair Jukka Sassi

Keynote Drones and Nature Values, Hans Siljebäck, Strategic Projects at IBG

Applications and challenges related to the use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems in environment monitoring, Jukka Sassi (VTT), Vadim Kramar, Matti Mõttus, Olli Ihalainen and Sami Siikanen.

Monitoring biophysical parameters of wetlands using multispectral drone data, Aurélie Davranche (University of Helsinki), Thomas Houet, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Elsie Kjeller, Jean Secondi, Sébastien Farau, Adeline Leray, Maxime Bobineau, Marc Lorieux, Henrik Lindberg, Esa Lientola, Clarisse Blanchet, Petri Nummi and Céline Arzel

UAS-SfM-derived Elevation Models for Monitoring the Changed Flow Paths and Wetness in Minerotrophic Peatland Restoration, Lauri Ikkala (University of Oulu), Anna-Kaisa Ronkanen, Jari Ilmonen, Maarit Similä, Sakari Rehell, Timo Kumpula, Lassi Päkkilä, Björn Klöve and Hannu Marttila

From sky to the bottom: multi-scale river monitoring with drones, Mikel Calle Navarro (University of Turku), Linnea Blåfield

Common reed (Phragmites australis) orthomosaic drone mapping, Jerome Tornikoski (Turku University of Applied Sciences) ja Nina Savela

12:00 Lunch break & Posters & Drone Equipment Exhibition continues

13:00 Session 4 Forests and Nature values – Chair Roope Näsi

Comparison of Deep Neural Networks in the Classification of Spruce Trees Damaged by the Bark Beetle Using UAV Multi- and Hyperspectral Imagery, Emma Turkulainen (Finnish Geospatial Research Institute FGI), Eija Honkavaara, Roope Näsi, Teemu Hakala, Samuli Junttila, Kirsi Karila, Niko Koivumäki, Raquel Alves Oliveira, Ilkka Pölönen and Päivi Lyytikäinen-Saarenmaa

Drone-based measurements of solar-induced fluorescence in Sodankylä, Northern Finland, Marika Honkanen (Finnish Meteorological Institute), Hannakaisa Lindqvist, Pauli Heikkinen, Rigel Kivi, Alasdair MacArthur

“Wild Swarms”: autonomous drones in the natural world, Fabrice Saffre (VTT) and Hannu Karvonen

Seeking a low-cost workflow for drone based forest data capture, Kalle Tammi (Tampere University of Applied Sciences)

14:00  Coffee & Posters & Drone Equipment Exhibition continues

FinDrones 2023 Matchmaking (until 14:30) – Meeting room 2005

Short meetings agreed in matchmaking service.

14:15 Session 5 Agriculture – Chair Jere Kaivosoja

Keynote: Remote Sensing and Proximal Sensing of Crop Traits, Georg Bareth, University of Cologne, Institute of Geography, GIS & RS Group

Accuracy assessment of post-processing kinematic (PPK) georeferencing for UAS-based photogrammetry, Anssi Rauhala (University of Oulu)

Weakly supervised weed detection in a barley field, Leon-Friedrich Thomas (University of Helsinki), Mikael Änäkkälä and Antti Lajunen

Positioning of barley ears in gluten free oat production fields using drone imaging, Oiva Niemeläinen (LUKE), Jere Kaivosoja, Markku Niskanen, Roope Näsi, Ehsan Khoramshahi, Stefan Rua, Aksel Päivänsalo, Niko Koivumäki, Heini Kanerva, Raquel Oliveira, Eija Honkavaara ja Juho Kotala

Determining the characteristics of the maize vegetation using UAV platform, Mikael Änäkkälä (University of Helsinki), Antti Lajunen

Performance evaluation of novel UAS-based VNIR and SWIR hyperspectral imaging for grass quality and quantity estimation, Raquel Alves Oliveira (Finnish Geospatial Research Institute FGI) , Roope Näsi, Panu Korhonen, Arja Mustonen, Oiva Niemeläinen, Niko Koivumäki, Teemu Hakala, Juha Suomalainen Jere Kaivosoja, Eija Honkavaara

Remote sensing methods for evaluating the properties related to the production capacity of field parcels, Roope Näsi (Finnish Geospatial Research Institute FGI), Eija Honkavaara, Raquel Alves Oliveira, Eero Ahokas, Eetu Puttonen, Arttu Kivimäki, Maiju Karhu, Lauri Jauhiainen ja Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio

Thermal drone images as a predictor of soil moisture values, Janne Kalmari (JAMK University of Applied Sciences), Gilbert Ludwig, Iita Appelgren, Hannu Haapala

Piloting different drone missions in farm robotics development, Jere Kaivosoja (LUKE), Kari Kolehmainen, Oskar Marko, Ari Ronkainen, Nina Pajević, Marko Panić, Sergio Vélez, Mar Ariza-Sentís, João Valente and Juha-Pekka Soininen

16:30 Discussion

17:00 Closing the conference 

Day 2 presentations in English.

FinDrones Matchmaking

The on-site matchmaking during the conference enables short prearranged meetings at the conference venue. The international online matchmaking 21st & 23rd February and 1st March. Read more and register: FinDrones Matchmaking