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OpenCV Image Stitching Team

April 17, 2020
In the implementation of the software that will be used in the drone, the image-stitching team, consisting of Luna Lynn, Noorulain Irshad, and Brian Matamet began to work towards a solution that will allow us to integrate an image-stitching process onto our final design. This process will convert...

UAV Drone Cage Flight

April 14, 2020
On March 10, 2020 the Engineering Service Learning Team set up a drone cage for future pilots to take practice upon. This provided a great opportunity for both the pilots and the team to make preparations incase of any in flights issues that may occur. Something that came up was the way the remote...

U.A.S. @ 2020 World Ag. Expo

February 25, 2020
      The Unmanned Aerial Systems team went to the Ag Expo on February 12, 2020. The Ag Expo is a conference that occurs every year at 4500 South Laspina Street Tulare, California. This year was the 53rd edition of the Expo, it’s the largest annual outdoor...

PDR Presentation

February 25, 2020
On February 18, the Unmanned Aerial Systems team presented their PDR Presentation to their community partner Dr. Andreas Westphal. The people present where the teams advisor Dr. YangQuanChen, Chris Butler, and the class TA, Simranjit Grewal. The people that presented were Jaime Rivera (Project...

UAV Spring 2020

February 9, 2020
As we welcome the new decade, we would also like to welcome our new Spring 2020 UAV Team. These members will continue to push and innovate both in the community and agriculture. As our research stage progresses, UAV continues to collect more data that will hopefully draw a correlation between...

Drone Day @UCM

November 12, 2019
On November 9th, 2019, Drone Day was celebrated at UC Merced. The UAS Team tabled and explained many details of the project throughout the day to the general public, UCM students and staff. The team presented one of their drones along with a thermal camera which was turned on for the visitors to...

UAS Sample Testing @KARE 10/25/19

October 29, 2019
On October 25th the UAS team visited the KARE Center in order gather root samples of infected trees, and thermal images the walnut canopies. The trip was a success with many root samples gathered and thermal images taken. Preliminary data was obtained that will help inform the research methods, and...

UAS Sample Testing @KARE 10/08/19

October 9, 2019
On October 8th the UAS Team visited KARE in order to learn about the process of taking nematode samples from walnut trees. With the guidance of Dr. Westphal and his team, UAS learned about nematode sampling, how to count the nematode present on the samples. The team plans to take multiple trips in...

UAS Sample Testing @KARE (10/30/19)

October 5, 2019
On October 30, 2019, the UAS Team visited the KARE Center in order to obtain more data samples. The trip was a success as the team personally dug up root samples and took part in counting the amount of infected nematodes in samples offered at the KARE Center. The drone was not flown in this trip as...

Fall 2019 Drone Pilot

October 2, 2019
As the UAS team gets deeper into the semester live data will will soon be required, one candidate who has presented himself to become the first licensed pilot is Alexander Roman. Romanhas taken the task of obtaining a drone pilot license, a very difficult step, yet one he is willing to take. Roman...

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