Day 12

We started our half field day by visiting the Kualoa Ranch “Judd Theater” to see a quick video about the history of the ranch and its previous land uses in sugar cane production, WWII military uses and cattle production. The highlight of the field day was seeing a laser scanner out in the field collecting data. The scanner is really impressive because the scanner is taking points every quarter of an inch which isn’t even its highest quality scan and also putting a color HDR image on top of that at the end. It was entertaining to be out there because when you’re out there with a laser scanner you cannot be in its line of sight when it rotates, so our group stood in a line behind the scanner and we moved around in circles behind it when it rotated. It looked kinda goofy but it was also pretty neat to watch the laser scanner at work. It was too bright to see the LCD screen with the final product so I guess I’ll have to wait until we have it on a computer and hopefully get to post up a screenshot of the data for my blog.

The rest of the day was just being inside the barn and trying to get a good classification out of the worldview2 imagery and cleaning up our data.