There was a storm today, a ton of wind and rain. We were stuck inside for most of the day, we did the work we could while inside. We also compared the ground truthing images we had collected yesterday to what the algorithm said so we could test the accuracy of the algorithm. A few of our team members watched footage from the GoPros we had put in the fjord to count the fish, jellyfish, or other marine life that our cameras had seen. A couple folks worked on getting the weather station at Skálanes up and running again.

Despite the bad weather in the morning it cleared up in the afternoon enough to fly part of the Ytri-Sanda, as well as, the archaeological site.

We may have arrived at Skalanes yesterday, but today was our first full day, and the first day we got to work on our projects. We spent the morning flying the drones, while we had sun. It was clear and sunny this morning, but got really foggy in the afternoon, so foggy we couldn’t even see the fjord from the house. After we got some of the flying done we worked on getting images from the drones onto computers so we could start analysis. Today we split into two groups, the ones who flew drones over what we call the Transect to capture images, and a smaller group who went to capture images of part of the river, the Ytri-Sanda.

We also took the day to prepare for one of our projects on the fjord. A few of our group members worked on setting up some GoPro cameras for our project on the fjord. Two graduate students we are working with worked on calibrating some of the other equipment for the same project on the fjord.

Tonight we read some of Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology after dinner, only a few chapters in, but a few of us are hooked.