Jack Solomon
Dr. Bill Wiecking
Independent Project Proposal
Aerial Drone Project
Purpose: Mapping of the Ala Kahakai tr...
Today I began doing some research about infrared cameras.
Here is the FLIR infrared camera we have now (FLIR Infracam):
http://www.instrumart.com/p...
Today I researched IR systems and how they work.
This video explains how various forms of "invisible light" can be beneficial given the correct eq...
I finally figured out how to use the Fatshark with the Gopro today. I experimented with the various antennae we have and discovered which antenna wen...
The Aerial Drone Project involves radio-controlled UAV
(unmanned aerial vehicle) multi-rotor drones. The purpose of the project is to expa...
Today we just did some research on the Ala Kahakai:
http://www.nps.gov/alka/parkmgmt/upload/ALKA_CMP_low-resolution.pdf
Today we reviewed some geological maps of the Kohala coast.
We are trying to acquire some more maps, which will hopefully be updated.
Here is a ...
Today we were finally going to fly but the wind was too strong. It seems like the best time to fly is when the wind is <10mph.
I did get to fly th...
This week we learned how the FPV system works, flew the drone for the first time this year, and learned about the Ala Kahakai and infrared video.
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Today we got to fly with the FPV system and practice filming for thursday. We both feel confident about flying/filming now. We will head down to spen...
This week was solely spent preparing for and working on filming for the lower school's beach clean up. Our main achievements this week include produc...
Today we went down to Spencer beach and Kawaihae harbor to film the lower school's beach clean up. Everything went smoothly and we were able to get s...
Today we made a rough edit of the beach clean-up. (This is not the final version, we just wanted to illustrate our work):
[Beach Clean-up.m4v]
We met with Greg Mooers, the chairman of the board for HPA, to discuss the Kohala shoreline project. He provided us with a wealth of very useful info...
Today we learned about various cinematic drone shots:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzsyu0u1xrs
Also, we learned how to get rid of the "jello effe...
This week we were very productive: we met with Greg Mooers and discussed various potential projects and applications of drone technology, and he conn...
On friday I shot the aerial images that Mr. Emmons wanted for an aerial map of his garden/orchard. The wind was quite high over the orchard so I had ...
Today I finished editing the beach clean-up video, and I think that it looks a lot better now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eMe2KNJLXQ&feature=you...
Today we practiced flying because the wind was very low. We got a bit of useable footage of the solar array.
RF7 came in and we started installing...
This week we finished shooting aerial images of Mr. Emmons farm, although the results weren't ideal, so we will most likely re-shoot them.
I also f...
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