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UAV FALL 2019

October 2, 2019
As the Spring 2019 semester comes to an end, we welcome our new Fall 2019 UAV Team. These members will keep pushing the research and sample testing for nematodes even further. As we are in the testing stage of our research and are now planning to take trips to KARE in order to gather more samples...

UAV Presentation

October 2, 2019
On October 1st, the UAV Team prepared for a live meeting with Dr. Westphal and Dr. Chen. In this meeting, the team presented the current plans for the upcoming semester and the tasks that will be finalized. The team discussed with Dr. Chen and Dr. Westphal including trips for field testing....

UAV @ UC Merced's Innovate to Grow Event

May 7, 2019
On May 17, the Unmanned Aerial Systems team will attend UC Merced’s Innovate to Grow Event. This event is the bi-annual showcase of UC Merced student ingenuity and entrepreneurship. All the teams from Engineering Service-Learning will be presenting their FDR posters that shows the progress...

Software Team Recap

April 30, 2019
The software team has done important research in order for next team to continue the nematode project. The goal of the software time this year was to Gather the necessary info, so that we can convert the thermal images that we get from the drone in to usable data to detect the presence of nematodes...

UAV Visits KARE

April 23, 2019
On April 18th , a group of members from the UAS Team made the trip down to the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center (KARE), to take a tour of the facility. The tour was given by Dr. Andreas Westphal, who is an expert in nematodes and conducts research on sustainable nematode...

UAV @ Bobcat Day

April 13, 2019
On April 13, The Unmanned Aerial Systems Table for Bobcat Day to talk about our project and about the Engineering Service-Learning class. The event took place from 9am – 2pm. Bobcat day is a day for the all the new incoming freshman for Fall 2019, can come to campus to meet all the clubs and...

UAV Purchases New Drone

April 9, 2019
When it came to team ordering the drone and the other needed materials that we needed for our project, we used Dronefly and Amazon. These were the websites that we used to purchase the drone and other accessories. The drone that we needed for this project is the DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Dual Drone....

UAV Nematode & Soil Research

March 20, 2019
       We have furthered our understanding about how nematodes cause problems for the walnut farming industry as well as what solutions are currently in place to keep the nematodes in check. Nematodes are microscopic organisms that feed off of the roots of plants (in our case,...

UAV Nematode Presentation

March 12, 2019
     On March 12th, 2019 the Unmanned Aerial System Team presented to Dr. Chen and Andreas Westphal about the current nematode infestations in walnut trees and exchanged vital information that’ll help us moving forward with the project. To begin Westphal presented to...

UAV @ Castle Facility

March 5, 2019
    On Tuesday March 5th, the Engineering Service Learning Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) team bonded over a visit to the UC Merced Castle Research Center. At Castle, the conduct research to improve the ways of agriculture with the use of many drones and other remote controlled technology...

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