The University of Sydney is a public research university whose Faculty of Engineering offers accredited aeronautical and aerospace professional-engineering pathways. The curricula cover aircraft construction and design, aerodynamics, propulsion, structures, flight mechanics, controls, data analysis, and professional practice. The university's Australian Centre for Robotics develops autonomous systems, sensing, mapping and control. Its civilian aerial-robotics applications include unpiloted aircraft for agriculture and drone-based forest measurement using sensor fusion, airborne imagery, photogrammetry and laser scanning.