Assignment 2: Research

Q1: Develop a research question related to Geomatics, but not necessarily related to Land Administration

“What are the concerns and taboo surrounding civilian drone use?”

Q2: Locate 3 sources that would help you answer your question: one book (1), one journal article (2), and one website (3)

1. Perritt, H. H., & Sprague, E. O. (2016). Domesticating drones: The technology, law, and economics of unmanned aircraft. London: Routledge.
2. Gallacher, D. (2016). Drones to manage the urban environment: Risks, rewards, alternatives. Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems,4(2), 115-124. doi:10.1139/juvs-2015-0040
3. Sweeney, N. (2017, October 16). Civilian Drone Use in Canada. Retrieved February 2, 2019, from https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsite/default/en_CA/ResearchPublications/201723E

Q3: For each source, provide a citation in APA or Lecture Notes 54 format, and give a brief assessment of it

I gave my citations in Q2

1. The book “Domesticating drone: The technology, law, and economics of unmanned aircraft.” , was published by Routledge in London, England, in 2016 and written by multiple authors. The book touches around the subject of assimilating drone use into society and appears to have no bias to the use of drone nor a bias towards the ban on them. The book rather summarizes the current climate of regular drone use by talking about benefits regarding their use but also the problems they bring. Being published in 2016 this book carries very new information and is a great resource for current arguments.
2. Published in the Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems, this article focuses on the use of drones for environmental use and assess security and privacy issues regarding them. I believe this article is more biased towards supporting drone use as it was written for a UAV based journal. Being published in 2016 though this article may bring recent topics into light and also have still relevant explanations. On top of this the article provides a plethora of references all varying in countries of origin, news stations, and governments allowing for various viewpoints.
3. This website, being published onto the Library of Parliments website (presumably very credible) contains a report of data and facts gathered around the topic of civilian drone use in Canada and family nations. The author goes into detail explaining what a drone is, its various uses, and talks about the current laws surrounding drones. When necessary, each statement is labelled with a footnote leading to the large amount of references, similar to the Journal article. This webpage is a great resource for my research question as it provides important facts and statistics backed up with the source for me to utilize.