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What is a White Paper?

Introduction Starting this spring 2020 semester at Purdue, I am continuing my capstone course in UAS. Last semester my group began and made great progress in research and experimentation with search and rescue missions aided by UASs. To continue that, we will be doing much more research and analysis this semester, with the goal of writing either a white paper or peer-reviewed publication. Before starting on our literature, we have to answer the question of “what is a white paper?” I’ll be examining that question, analyzing the similarities and differences between a white paper and peer-reviewed literature, and listing pros and cons for each. Finally, I’ll be critiquing a few examples of white papers, and describe how I’ll be moving forward with my writing for the semester. What is a white paper? In short, a white paper is an authoritative document about a complex subject. Purdue’s Online Writing Lab says it is typically used to argue a position or propose a solution to a pr
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Fall 2019 Final Presentation

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This week we were able to present our work for the semester, the presentation is available by clicking on the image above.
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Purdue GIS Day 2019

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  Through the first semester of my UAS Capstone course, AT 409, the ultimate goal of our research was to be able to present a poster for Purdue's annual GIS Day Conference. On November 7, 2019 we did just that. This conference has been held annually for more than a decade, and serves as an opportunity for students, faculty, and members of industry to come together and learn from each other. The day started with a few lightning talks, 15 minute presentations from students and faculty presenting their current research. Topics ranged from GIS usage for UAS mission planning, to forest communities migrating due to climate change. These presentations were very insightful and put together incredibly well. The main event of the day was the keynote presentation, Seeing a Better World from Space by Dr. Carly Sakumura. Dr. Sakumura is a research and development scientist at Maxar Technologies, a company based around satellites and earth observation. The presentation focused on the
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GIS Day Poster

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GIS Day Poster Last week we presented our GIS poster rough draft to the class to receive critiques and make necessary changes before GIS day on November 7th, 2019. Below are the critiques we received from the class and Dr. Hupy, we took into consideration all critiques and made changes we thought were necessary. Our final poster is pictured below, click on the image to view the full-size figure.   Critiques Hupy Bad title Too much detail, reword title. Explain what we're actually doing Think in terms of somebody unknowledgeable  Jasper Likes layout Less text Clean, title more centered Sam Question about comparing the ortho and Loc8 Alan Very specific Under methods bigger space between certain words, look at word spacing Luke M Doesn't like black bar Photo of platform? (grayscale) Purdue & SATT Logo Austin Skewed #'s with "industry avg", show exactly what the stats say James Title worked on Consistent format except ack
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GIS Day Prep and New Story Map

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GIS Day Abstract We continue to prepare ourselves for Purdue GIS day, we have created a rough draft of our poster to be presented and developed an abstract that summarizes our project very well. This poster and abstract need to get the viewers attention very quick and be able to showcase the focus of our research effectively. Our abstract is a quick overview for viewers to give them a good idea of who we, what we are doing and how we will be achieving it. Our main focus is to implement UAS effectively into search and rescue operations, we do this through the Loc8 software. A quick overview of how this is done and an introduction to the software allow viewers to quickly and effectively know the scope of our work. A copy of our abstract can be found here. GIS Day Poster Figures To showcase our findings it is important for us to visually compare the time it takes for us to complete a mission with UAS and the time it takes to complete a mission using traditional methods.
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Progress Report

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Now that we have entered the advanced stages of our senior design capstone project, we are full swing on data collection and experiment implementation. Over the previous 7 weeks our focus was determining the direction we want to take this project and designing experiments and various scenarios to test the Loc8 program. It is our goal to determine and prove that Loc8 is a faster method of locating a lost person or item in a search and rescue type scenario then traditional methods. During our preliminary research and testing we had difficulties demonstrating the usefulness and speed of this program as it appeared using the more traditional "squinting" method of looking for an item in a photograph was faster. However, as we worked with Loc8 more and received proper training, we began to get a sense for how we needed to use the program to gain its greatest efficiency. The goal this week was to run the experiments we had designed to officially determine whether or n
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