Welcome to my Virtual Field Station
Pondering a Life of Digitizing Nature
Animal Vegetable Robot
"The story in which you believe shapes the society that you create."
Yuval Noah Harari
Drone School at Reed College
September 14-21, 2003
I'm teaching remote sensing of forest canopies using camera drones to a group of undergraduate students at Reed College. My lab is part of the course Biology 313 - Forest Canopy Ecophysiology, taught by Prof. Aaron Ramirez. We are learning the basics of flying small drones and using them to create a 3D model or "digital twin" of the trees that are photographed. The model can be used to define the height, perimeter and structural attributes of every tree that is surveyed. Students are comparing the results of using these tools with manual measurements. Stay tuned for their findings later this week. Until then, here are a few of the panoramic drone images captured by each student during last week's training.
The Urban Forest Digital Twin
August 7, 2023
The Urban Forest Digital Twin: Technologies to build virtual forests for urban forestry, STEM education, and public outreach. Links to Ecological Society of America meeting presentation by Dr. Mike Hamilton. Slides, and demonstration portals.
WRITINGS
July 11, 2023
The MossCam: R.I.P. This is the story of the "world famous" MossCam, an early experiment in the use of an Internet-viewable webcam, weather station, and time-lapse studies of the ecological niche of a small but mighty plant that has the unique capacity for living through the driest conditions but then resurrecting itself in a matter of seconds after the first touch of rain or fog.
WEATHER
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Current Weather Conditions in Oregon City, Oregon