It might be getting trite to say, but it feels like much longer than a few months since I was last traveling. As I am working through my paperwork from my trips abroad in February and March, I thought I would put together a bit of a summary of the latest trip to Rwanda. Transit Arrival to Rwanda this time wasn’t via Brussels or Amsterdam, … Continue reading Rwanda 2020 — Part 1
In have two previous posts, I sought to combine coffee and deep learning: this one and the latest. Anyone who has been following my blog for a while knows I start with a beginners mind. Lol. In other words, I get almost everything wrong for a while until I sort it out. I appreciate that folx are willing to read along and humor me. My … Continue reading Bean 3 — Gauging the best way to combine Deep Learning and Coffee
In a previous post on combining coffee and AI, a combo which makes me think of the kind of marketing genius that was Dinosaur Train (Dinosaurs!: But with trains!::Artificial Intelligence!:But with coffee!), we explored the application of deep learning models to coffee extraction. The underlying question, can we easily and quickly train an deep learning model to read a analog gauge so we can digitize … Continue reading Gauging the best way to combine Deep Learning and Coffee — Bean 2
Bad puns are a currency in my household these days. Sorry/not sorry. Artificial Intelligence, whether machine learning or deep learning, have developed a lot of cachet of late. Some of it is deserved, some is overblown. We are somewhere interesting on the hype curve. As a remote sensing person from way back, I can’t ignore the work in this field, but I also need to … Continue reading Gauging the best way to combine Deep Learning and Coffee
Pre-script: I don’t make money from any of the links in this post. I just want you to be able to find great ways to make coffee, and if these links help, so much the better. Disclaimer 2: I am not a coffee expert. I have just read a lot of coffee stuff on the internet After being an avid green tea drinker for a … Continue reading Coffee, coffee, coffee
In a previous post, we did a bit of a proof of concept in using OpenDroneMap for scanning a skull. It was the second skull I had scanned with OpenDroneMap. The first was a mountain gorilla skull from the Virungas from the 1920s that I then printed in 3D and brought home with me to Rwanda on a recent trip. These previous scans though were … Continue reading Scanning the samples with OpenDroneMap — part II
I think of data from photogrammetry as a pipeline problem in which we have just begun to address the beginning of the pipeline. Historically, photogrammetry was the purview of a few (and depending on where you are in the world, laws may make it still so), dependent upon expensive software, even more expensive hardware (think: calibrated camera >$400k, cesna ~$130k, IMU ~$25k, plus fuel etc. … Continue reading Beyond Data
2nd day of the OSM Mali OpenDroneMap training went as well or better than the first. We spent quite a bit of time looking at the products of OpenDroneMap from day one, culminating in exploring their use in blender, and discussion of their use in JOSM, iD, and QGIS. We also got out for some field mapping. Lacking the necessary permits for flights, we tried … Continue reading Moar OSM Mali
It’s a trite but we’ll earned pun. OSM Mali is amazing. I am in Bamako this week doing an OpenDroneMap workshop, and the community here is incredible. We just completed the first day of a two day workshop, working through some photogrammetry introductions, and on to some proper mapping tomorrow. For this round, we weren’t able to fly just yet, so we are working around … Continue reading Awesome Mali
In previous posts, we’ve scanned whole cities, cliff faces, down to small things like ukuleles and tiny pits to identify difficult to identify plants. This post goes in a slight different direction, doing a bit of a meta-scan of another kind of voucher: animal bones. I wanted to figure out what other interesting use cases there are for OpenDroneMap. For example, could we use it … Continue reading Scanning the samples with OpenDroneMap
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