Easton Glacier, Mount Baker (Kulshan), WA UAS: DJI Phantom 4 (pictured here) DJI Mavic senseFly eBee Setting up GNSS base…
Structure from Motion Survey of a River Channel
River systems in the Pacific Northwest, like much of western North America, underwent drastic changes starting in the 19th century…
Structure From Motion With A Toy Drone
RC Drone: UDI R/C U845 Voyager and Android app Software used: VisualSFM Sample Images:
A Geology Tour of Germany
With the opportunity to travel to Germany last year, I couldn’t help but include some time for geotourism in my schedule. Thankfully, due to the ever-present nature of geology on the solid earth, there is rarely a location without some feature of interest to explore. I present the following highlights in reverse-chronological order, as a sort of stratigraphic column tour.
Blue Marble in Tableau
Before the awe-inspiring photograph of the Pale Blue Dot, and the more recent image of an evening “star” in the…
Chronology of Mars Missions
Inspired by this timeline chart of rocket launches.
Exospheric Effects of Lunar Industrialization
The Moon has an impermanent hold on its tenuous atmosphere. Its relatively weak gravity (1.62 m s-2), one sixth of…
Imaging the ISS Without Special Tools or Preparation
(this is a joke) The ISS passed overhead tonight and was particularly bright. Surprisingly it showed up on my phone…
Spacecraft Habitable Volumes, Mission Duration
Currently reading Out of this World: The New Field of Space Architecture by A. Scott Howe and Brent Sherwood and…
The 3D Web with JanusVR
I recently discovered this project, JanusVR, yet another iteration of attempting to develop a 3D web.Using a markup language that…