UAS Sensors and Data Collection

Introduction The goal of this lab was to get more familiar with ARC pro GIS. I chose to fallow a tutorial on planning a timber harvest, which involved doing data analysis to Identify approximately how many trees would be harvest this season. I chose this topic as I thought it would be an interesting application for remote sensing, and would allow companies to more easily estimate harvest, therefor estimating revenue and income. Methods The method was to fallow the ARC pro GIS tutorial and the end result for the estimated harvest was to get the number of acres of aspen trees that were going to be publicly harvested and the numbers of acres that were going to be industrially harvested. The public state-owned land had harvesting limitations on the trees being older than 50 years, on more than 20 acres of land, and in a specific soil category. The Industrial owned land harvest had the trees had to be older than 40 years and that was it.  Each group has their own restrictions, so th...

Introduction The goal of this lab was to better understand the thermal heat transfer between objects and their surroundings. The better understanding of thermodynamics helps with the analysis for future infra-red (IR) data collection. Methods Figure 1. A RGB Image of the sousvide setup In this lab, the method to image the temperature change of objects to collect data on their rate of heat transfer was by placing 4 3d printed planes into a hot water bath, and imaging it with an IR camera. Three of the four planes were frozen and one was put into a plastic bag with no air, one was put into a plastic bag with air, and one was put into a wool sock. Their was also a plane which was keep at room temperature and placed into a plastic bag with air. All planes were placed into the hot water bath and the IR sensor, specifically a Zenmuse XT2 camera, watched the airplanes to see how their temperature changed over time. Figure 2. An IR image of the sousvide Results  Each ...

Introduction The goal of this lab was to get a better understanding of thermal cameras, how they work, and what they can and cannot do. The thermal camera used to capture the images was a FLIR E series.  Methods The methods for testing the thermal camera involved using it capture images, to gather data on their thermal values. Some of the things that had to be considered while capturing the images were the use of false color, and the use of overlaying thermal over electro optical (EO) images .   Their were 2 color palates that were used in the lab, Ironbow, which is yellow hot and purple for cold, and a black and white scale. The benefits of the Ironbow palate was that it was easier to identify which part is cold and which is hot as this is how one would normally expect as people have associated blue with cold and red for hot. A drawback of using the iron coloration is that some detail is lost in the process of adding the color. The benefits of using the black a...