In some sense the amount of activity going on is inversely proportional to the posts we’re making here to document it… Here’s a quick summary of what we’ve been working on since my last post: o LiDAR – We have … Read More
I learned this week the breadth of coordinate systems that are used to geolocate a “point” on the surface of the earth. A very nice archeological survey was done of the Skalanes peninsula about 10 years ago (as near as … Read More
Ive begun stepping into the world of machine learning algorithms, Kellan has been helping with some of the mathematical aspects which has made debugging a breeze. This post is going to be a bit image heavy so take it easy … Read More
After a bit of a break from blogging we’re back. Nic and I have been puddling along with image analysis, LiDAR and the ambiance platform over the past couple of months. Recently Kellan joined us working on machine learning/feature extraction … Read More
This is more of just a short blip for the blog as there is a lot to go over for the first research meeting in about two weeks! As we move towards the end of the 2016 winter semester theres … Read More
This week has been a bit frustrating, but it all seems to be looking up now. After taking some test images with the UAV last weekend I realised that there was image fragmenting going on with the camera. This meant … Read More
Okay, so a lot has happened over the last month! Early this month I started to dive a bit into how we are going to stitch our images together. I approached this through OpenCV so that I have access to … Read More
This week, I and Vitalii started off by writing a bash script that takes a set of images from a directory, converts them (one at a time) and saves the converted images in a sub-directory or any other directory. The converted … Read More
Vitalii, Niraj and I talked about how to proceed with the aerial images from Skalanes. For now we are going to focus on two aspects, identifying possibly anthropomorphic surface features and measuring the extent of the lupine. There are a … Read More
Over the past couple of weeks Gail and I have spent almost all of our time working on materials describing the (almost) inaugural Icelandic Field Studies May Term, submitting them to the various campus entities, advertising it, and holding information … Read More