Since May we have been lucky enough to have Emily Dautenhahn, a Math major from the University of Kentucky embedded with us for an internship. As her time with us draws to a close she has reflected on her trip … Read More
There is an article in the NZ Herald following up on the team’s recent trips: A A Team of Kiwi scientists have taken their cutting-edge drone technology from Antarctica to Africa, pioneering a new field of research that could ultimately … Read More
Sci21 is a New Zealand based science communications project with the aim to entertain, inform and inspire interest in the science of tomorrow. Here Dr Barbara Breen provides an overview on some of our projects using UAV’s for conservation.
Barbara gave an interview this morning to BBC world on the recent drone footage capture captured by our post-graduate students Lorenzo Fiori and Ticiana Fetermann – check it out! Footage of Bryde’s whales feeding has been caught on camera. Source: … Read More
Since we started with surveys using our X8 + Sony A5100 I’ve been keen to get more realtime data on our images during collection. After reading this post by Roger Monongo it look’s like the use of an HDMI to AVI converter … Read More
The team are currently in Namibia investigating the spectral properties of Fairy Circles as visible in UAV multispectral remote sensing.
I’m always a sucker for slow-motion.. Here is a great youtube video that really helps show why safe working practices, such as having two-step arming procedures, are so important. We recently had a meeting to discuss UAV safety with our … Read More
Important notice from the USGS: ASTER global satellite data is now available for direct download. Great news remote sensing research projects. To quote our own Dr Andrew Fletcher: “The decision to put landsat out for free immediately on capture has … Read More
Over the past few months I have been having a play with using SketchFab to display 3d models generated from photogrammetry software (in particular Pix4D). It’s a quick and simple solution and I’ve been impressed with how smoothly the import process works … Read More
Unfortunately I missed this blog post by Iain Butler (aka TheUAVguy) the first time around but glad to read it now. He gives a very in-depth review of multi-rotor vs fixed-wing options for survey work. Here at Unmanned Science we … Read More