Day 14

The presentations of the common products today were really impressive. It was a great seeing all of the different projects come together at the end where specific products actually were intertwined with all of the others. The first presentation of Geology by Thomas and Jeanette was amazing. I think everyone in the group felt kind of intimidated to go up and try to beat that. It seemed very well prepared and with lots of good content and discussion afterwards. As it turned out, everyone in the group had some awesome presentations and common products. The ones that stood out to me were the topography/georeferencing group with their detail oriented and very thorough methodology and data dictionary for collecting points and the UAV group with all of the imagery in a well cataloged system. On top of the breakthrough of matching time stamps to the hundreds of photos from each flights, that the UAV group also made documents ( or what I interpreted as tutorials) for everyone in the group to be able to do exactly what they did. As Dr. Wechsler pointed out, the UAV group definitely saved this whole group a lot of time and energy.

After the presentations we started to shift into thinking about our individual projects more. I’m glad I had to talk to Dr. Lee a bit more and further my idea of classifying particular invasive species in the valley that are problematic to the ranch and hopefully be able to find patterns for the best areas/conditions for these invasive species to grow in order to take more preemptive actions against the invasive(s) in the future. We also had some awesome dessert made by Ted himself.