Walkabout
June 24, 2012This post is for June 23rd, but a lack of internet prevented posting until now.
In the morning the newly-named “Veg Crew” wandered around our study site taking waypoints and filling out our data dictionary attributes for different patches of vegetation – natives, invasives, mixed patches, etc. We got to walk along a beautiful beach and check out a lot of cool plants including one that produced a thick latex when I cut a sample (I know all about that now, thanks Dr. Fink!).
After lunch we climbed a hill in our study site to check out what our aerial imagery will look like, and get a better idea of the sort of thing we are trying to model. The view was awesome and it was a really clear day, I will upload a 360 panorama later.
We got to watch two launches of the Gatewing X100 that took images of the western part of the study site.
Happy Friday!