Saturday 30 April 2016

Mer Bleue 3D point cloud fly-through





Individual images collected with a DJI Inspire 1 UAV on April 27th.  Surface represents a subset of the densified point cloud.

Sunday 17 April 2016

Alcolapia species flock from Lake Natron Tanzania

Our video of the endangered Alcolapia ndalalani, Alcolapia alcalica and Alcolapia latilabris in the freshwater springs surrounding Lake Natron, Tanzania. From the 2015 Fish + Forest expedition to Tanzania just surpassed 1,000 views on YouTube!!  Check it out below!

Aerial video from Serengeti National Park

Filmed in 2015 from a hot air balloon over Serengeti National Park

First 3D reconstructions of the season

Success with the first UAV based 3D reconstructions of the season from Mer Bleue!
Densified Point Cloud  and Full Texture Mesh  Images were collected with a DJI Inspire 1 and processed with Pix4D.


GEOG 535 Field Trip to Mer Bleue

Thanks Pablo and Oliver for helping out with the GEOG 535 field trip to Mer Bleue!  Students had fun learning about field spectrometery, ground truth data collection and UAV imaging.  



Digital Globe Foundation Image Grant

Thank you to the Digital Globe Foundation for their imagery donation to the Fish + Forest Project! The high resolution satellite imagery for the entire Middle Xingu River in Brazil will allow us to map baseline habitats for several endemic fish species such as the iconic zebra pleco (Hypancistrus zebra).



Fish + Forest at the 2016 ESA Living Planet Symposium

Fish + Forest Project will be presenting a poster at the 2016 ESA Living Planet Symposium in Prague, Czech Republic, May 9-13. "LAND-133 - Mapping a riverscape at very high resolution with UAV videography, Worldview and GPS-Photo technologies: a case study for the Xingu River, Brazil"