Unmanned Systems Geospatial Applications - Ryan Riley

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...

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....

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...

As GIS day approaches faster and faster, November 7th to be exact, we continue to make progress on the poster we will present. GIS day is a great opportunity for us to present our capstone research involving Search & Rescue missions utilizing UAV data, and an innovative software called Loc8. Our poster has made great strides since we created our template a few weeks ago. Now, we have nearly-complete sections covering the overview of our project and group, our objectives, data collecting and testing methodology, results, discussion, future direction, and more. We are very proud of the continued progress we have made on our poster, and will continue to improve upon it until the conference. We have continued to collect data throughout the period of working on our poster, and have been running tests and experiments with our software as well. Our continued findings, and learnings, have helped us add a lot of depth to our poster. As we get nearer to GIS day, we will continue to add a...

To build off of our group poster templates that were created a few weeks ago, we joined together as a whole class to create a poster. Our goal was to work together to create a product that fairly represents our major, Unmanned Aerial Systems, and show off a bit of our research groups' capstone projects. My individual contributions to the poster span multiple areas of the poster. First and foremost, I set up and created the picture of our fleet. I also wrote the captions for every image. The research group I am in, Search and Rescue, collaborated with one another to play a very large role as well. We wrote the introduction in the center above the fleet, as well as the explanations for High Resolution Imagery, the GIS section, and the Search and Rescue section. The class considered a few different topics for the poster, but eventually landed on why UAS is a good choice for prospective students. This degree path is focused on unmanned vehicles, and has a broad range of skills tau...