Day 13:

Today we finished our presentations for tomorrow, which will be on our common products that we are to produce. We are able to produce mosaics of the areas where the X8 covered, but it was short of the valley. Hopefully when the X100 takes flight we’ll be able to produce a complete mosaic. It’ll be fairly easy too now that we have a pretty good feel for the software we will use. We can use PhotoScan to produce Orthophotos and DEMS, GPicSync to geotag imagery, and flight planner to produce flight logs. Having all of those softwares at our disposal will be great to dealing with all the imagery we’ll hopefully get.

Anyway after working on our presentations everyone went to Hale’iwa. We ate at Cholo’s, walked around the town, and went for a swim. It was a pretty good day, it’s fun to play tourist. By the time we got back it was about 9 pm. James’ 21st birthday was also today so we all sang Happy birthday before he blew out his candles. Tomorrow we’ll fine tune our presentations and be able to talk to the entire group about project ideas. I’m looking forward to it because it will give me the chance to bounce ideas off people, and who knows maybe I can come up with a good research question.

Goodnight.