At British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, Canada, Micro-credential in Drone Applications for Environmental Risk Assessment Micro-credential is offered as a micro-credential in Environmental Sciences programme. The programme runs for 4 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 1,000 per total for local students.
This micro-credential opens with Transport Canada regulations governing how small remotely piloted aircraft systems may be operated safely and legally, followed by a detailed look at site survey and mission planning. It then covers structure-from-motion photogrammetry image processing using colour, multi-spectral and thermal drone imagery, closing with practical examples spanning radiometric thermal orthomosaics, multi-spectral GIS analysis, and NDVI.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: BCIT requires no formal application to this microcredential and states no formal academic prerequisite for its four courses (XRPA 1100, 1200, 1500 and 1600). The page recommends diligence, engagement, motivation, curiosity and commitment as qualities needed for success, and requires access to a modern laptop or desktop computer less than two years old for the online sessions. The page states no English-language test score, minimum grade, interview, or portfolio requirement. Delivered part-time in a blended format over four weeks, combining online sessions on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings with in-person Saturday sessions, across BCIT's January and September intakes, this program is not available to international students.
Application Details
Start Date:January and September
Application Deadline:BCIT publishes common credential application dates for most cohort-based diplomas, degrees and Flexible Learning routes, though each program's own page governs: for the January 2027 intake domestic applications run 1 February 2026 to 2 January 2027 and international to 1 November 2026; for the April 2027 intake domestic runs 1 May 2026 to 1 April 2027 and international to 1 February 2027; for September 2027 domestic applications open 1 October 2026 and close 1 September 2027, international 2 July 2027. Openings are 9:00 am and deadlines 11:59 pm Pacific Time, moving to the next business day on a weekend. Admission is not institute-wide rolling, but many programs work first-qualified-first-accepted and can fill before the posted deadline, and several programs, mostly in Health Sciences, trades and graduate studies, run entirely separate application tables of their own. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
