Day 10

Before heading out to the field, Kerry helped organize our mess by setting up our Lunch Prep Area. It has made our morning run a lot smoother!

Today we had another full field day and we managed to collect points for about 90% of the valley. Adriana and Kerry joined us today and they helped out by taking geotagged photos and logging other ancillary data for our points. Initially the plan was to split up into a 3 and 2 group but since the data dictionary had trouble transferring onto the other trimble we were a strong team of 5 the whole day. Everything went great and we also got to see another UAV (X-8 I believe) and another Military version UAV being tested out and all of that gear was pretty cool to see. It was definitely a rare opportunity to be out on the field with them and for us to even gain access to their data.

Now the worst part of our day was when we came back our trimble unit was not being detected and transferring out data points back into the computer. Paul even spent a significant amount of time trying to fix it but we ended up losing our data for the day and will end up having to retrace our steps and go over the points again. We were all pretty bummed but we managed to make a new and more robust data dictionary that will log all the important information we need. This had us working until late tonight at around 11pm or so.