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AT 419 Assignment 1: How to Write A White Paper

As the new semester brings in AT 419, a UAS capstone course, we start the semester off with a written assignment designed to introduce us, undergraduate students, to the world of research writing. This style of paper is known as a white paper, and researching and presenting information on these kinds of papers is the focus of this paper. A senior design class, or capstone project, is a project designed by students and allows them to perform research on a topic of their interest. Because these classes are researched-based, it makes sense to produce a white paper in order to effectively present your findings. Since most undergraduate students have little to no experience writing this kind of paper, we are using this assignment to expand our knowledge. In this paper, I will be outlining the purpose of a white paper and how it should be written, along with the differences between a white paper and peer-reviewed paper, the pros and cons of a white paper, and a critique of 3 publis
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Fall 2019 Final Presentation

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This week we were able to present our work for the semester, the presentation is available by clicking on the image above.
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Purdue GIS Day

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Image 1  For our AT 409 UAS capstone class, we attended the Purdue GIS Day conference. Every year Purdue hosts this conference and it provides an opportunity for students, faculty and industry professionals to gain a greater understanding of what is currently happening with GIS. GIS stands for geographic information systems and provides a multitude of ways to manipulate and represent geographical data. At the conference, there are multiple events throughout the day that people can attend. For starters, there are lightning talks where current students briefly present some of the research they are presenting that relates to GIS. From UAS to forestry students, there was a wide variety of data and studies that were demonstrating information from various parts of the globe. The next major event was the keynote speaker. This presentation was focused on the satellite imagery company Maxxar as this was the company the speaker was currently working for. She talked about the way Maxxar u
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GIS Day Poster

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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.
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GIS Day Prep and New Story Map

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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. For our po
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GIS Day Poster Rough Draft

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 and i
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Progress Report

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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 not Loc8  is
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