Florida UAS Symposium and Full-Scale Exercise
Tallahassee, FL - June 2-4, 2021
This three day event will bring together UAS programs from around the state and region to participate in a one day workshop on UAS practices in emergency management and public safety as well as a two day full-scale exercise. Agencies can participate in either or both events.
Final information on the event is below.
Location
The Wednesday Symposium will take place at the FSU Conference Center and the Leon County Apalachee Regional Park (Outdoors). Parking is provided in both locations, see below.
The Full-Scale Exercise will occur in and around locations in Tallahassee/Leon County Florida, and missions will simulate those encountered in during a hurricane response.
Any hotel in the Tallahassee area is appropriate for participating teams/agencies.
Virtual Option
The Symposium portion will be broadcast via Zoom, from this URL: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/96027853793
The stream will start by 0830 on Wednesday, and go to the end of the indoor portion.
Schedule of Events
Symposium Day - Wednesday, 2 June
Morning Session - FSU Turnbull Conference Center
- 0800 - Coffee and Registration
- 0830 - Welcome and Opening Remarks
- 0845 - Regulations and Program Development - Sgt. Dooley, Florida Highway Patrol; Deputy Larry Wood, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office; Lance Liggett, Jacksonville Sheriff's Office
- This session will outline the lessons learned in program development, including discussion of Part 107 and Public Aircraft Operations.
- 1045 - Break
- 1100 - UAS Applications in Public Safety and EM Roundtable Discussion - The panel includes: Travis Potter, FEMA Region 4; Jarrett Broder, FSU/CDRP; David Merrick, FSU/CDRP; Tim Davis, Alachua County Fire Rescue UAS; Joe Cox, Alachua County Fire Rescue UAS
- This session will include a panel of public safety UAS operators discussing a variety of use cases and lessons learned in UAS operations. Audience questions and participation is welcome!
- 1230 - Lunch (on your own)
Afternoon Session - Apalachee Regional Park (Outdoors)
- 1330 to 1630 - Outdoor Demos/Training and Vendor Displays. Participants are free to float between demo stations and vendor displays.
- Demos/training will consist of these scenarios/stations:
- SAR
- K9 Trailing Integration
- Mapping / Modeling
- Damage Assessment
- Live Streaming
- ATAK (Android Team Awareness Kit) Operations
- Vendors in attendance will include:
- All Mobile Video
- Censys Technologies
- Dejero Labs
- Evolve Dynamics
- FLIR
- FLYMOTION
- Nomad Global Communications Solutions
- Perspective Robotics US
- Scent Evidence K9
- Soaring Eagle Imaging
- TVU Networks
- UAS ISAO
Full Scale Exercise - Thursday, 3 June
Full Scale Exercise
- 0830 - Daily Exercise Briefing
- 0900 - StartEx
- 2300 - Exercise Day Ends
Full Scale Exercise - Friday, 4 June
Full Scale Exercise, continues.
- 0830 - Daily Exercise Briefing
- 1330 - Hotwash
- 1430 - EndEx
Notes on the Exercise
This event is a full-scale exercise simulating a hurricane impact throughout Tallahassee/Leon County. Teams will be assigned missions, have to carry those out, and provide the requested data/products/information to the Exercise Command Post/IMT. Communication will be via cell phone and email. The schedule will be dynamic, and the pace will be as fast as a team wants it to go. The goal is to provide a realistic environment to test your teams capabilities.
Bring the gear and equipment that you will need to be successful. Teams will be asked to complete missions related to damage assessment, incident assessment/video, SAR, mapping, and infrastructure assessment. The Exercise IMT will assist​ with data management, but the majority of that burden will remain with the teams.
There are no set breaks during the exercise. You will need to take care of your team with whatever breaks you deem necessary. Again, the pace will be up to you. Night operations on Thursday will be available after a mandatory safety briefing.
The weather may not be great for the event. It may rain, it may be hot, there may be mosquitos. We will conduct the exercise as long as conditions are safe.
Uniform of the Day
Training uniforms or field wear/utilities are encouraged. With the exception of Wednesday morning, the majority of this event will be in the field. It will be hot. Marked uniforms are good - your teams will be in public operating during the exercise.
WiFi
Guest WiFi will be available at the conference center. We will have limited wifi available at Apalachee Regional Park.
Lodging
The following hotels are close to the Conference Center - but just about any hotel in Tallahassee will work. I'm not endorsing these, I'm just providing options.
Residence Inn by Marriott Tallahassee Universities at the Capitol - https://goo.gl/maps/RwzadbKoTuzT2btZ7
Hampton Inn & Suites Tallahassee Capitol-University - https://goo.gl/maps/1aDXgZqWxY9DE5987
Registration
We've Maxed Out!
Registration is closed at this time. We have hit the capacity limit of the venue as well as for the exercise (over 100 participants and over 30 UAS teams registered). The symposium event will be live streamed via Zoom, see above.