Dr. Getter’s expertise, access to equipment, and FAA certification make him an enormous asset to groups such as mine, as our expertise is more on the science of magmatic systems than the significant technical challenges associated with collecting crucial data. I am excited for the potential of this collaboration to develop new techniques, and look … Continue reading DRONE VENTURES (AV 104)

Coastal Drone Academy is a Science, Technical, Engineering, and Math (STEM) extension program within Career Technical Charter High School in Lincoln City. Community Services Consortium (CSC) is the parent organization of Career Tech High School. Coastal Drone Academy students map coastal towns, forests, wetlands, bays, and beaches. This year we will also be building drones such as … Continue reading AV 101 Introduction to Drones

Throughout Spring 2018, ten of our student pilots, four of our instructors, and six technicians from our collaborators together completed the Netarts Bay Seagrass Mapping Mission (click Netarts Bay Mission pdf for more details). It culminated in three days of flying together, producing over 25,000 images, and beginning a summer of analysis by "Einstein" (our supercomputer). This … Continue reading DRONE MISSIONS (AV 103)