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Wednesday June 3rd, 2009

Spencer Gardner's Stuff
- Read ironies of Automation
- Continue with visualization
- Still need to check out the Wisar bible for different terrrian variables
- Still should read Joseph Copper's thesis

Spencer Gardner's Stuff
- Try to collect more geohash logs
- Talk to Mike R. about the IPhone app
- Talk to Brian Buss about trail information (bbuss@byu.edu, briangbuss@gmail.com)
- Check out Joseph Copper's thesis
- Check out the WiSAR bible to see which terrian variables there are and a priority
- Work on visualizing tracklogs
- Talk to James and Spencer

Spencer Clark's stuff
- I've been writing code to remove 'bad points' from GPX track logs.
- I've been learning more about how GPS functions. I am going to look into a way to estimate the accuracy of a tracklog based on the positions of the satellites when the tracklog was generated. (Historical ephemeris data is available from the gubment)
- I'm going to get started on some tracklog analysis tools.
- I'm thinking about making whatever analysis code I write output some fancy KML visualization for Google Earth.
- Look into median filters (an image processing technique?)

Spencer Gardner's Stuff*
- Inform Dr. Goodrich of possibilities for facebook app.
- Localize track log data
- Check out Lost Person Behavior book
- Check out some type of mountaineering/geocaching book
- Start writing weekly papers of a summary of what has been learned.

Spencer Clark's Stuff
- Find old GPS orbits online somewhere - use them to estimate error
- Email GPS articles to everyone to bore them
- Send James my geocache tracklog
- Write reports about stuff
- Look into 'momentum filtering model.' People tend to move in a straight line with slight deviations. (probably)
- Draft email to director of Uinta High Adventure Base

James' stuff
- Accomplished
  - Go on a flight test for the UAV
  - Get IRB certification (I have a hard copy of the certificate)
  - Developed several hypothesis to check tracklog data against (see Tracklog Analysis page)
- Future
  - Final preparations for the field trial (actually getting the Credit Card and placing the order for food)
  - Use Google Earth, with the help of Mike Roscheck, to test hypothesis against data collected and filtered by both Spencers
  - Create a visual representation of a tracklog that allows for more detailed analysis.

Spencer Clark's Stuff
- Stuff I did
  - I came to the conclusion that the SPOT Satellite messengers are probably a dead-end due to their poor reception and 10 minute update interval. If we want to track scouts and others we are going to need to use a different device. (Possibly a stock GPS?)
  - Talked to Greg Alldredge about his contacts at a scout camp in the Uintahs. If we can figure out how we want to track them, Greg could get us in contact with the camp director.
  - Wrote a GPX parser in python. Should be pretty useful (at least for me, hah)
  - Prepared for the field trial
- Stuff I should do
  - Find out a new way (besides SPOT) to track boy scouts and others in the boonies
  - Contact Orienteering Utah to see if they have data they can give us. Also, maybe they would consider carrying tracking devices for us if we ask nicely.
  - Extend and improve GPX parser. Make it convert GPX → CSV for James. Make it 'normalize' data. (Remove points that are obviously wrong, etc)
  - Party down

Spencer Gardner's Stuff
- Progress
  - I've become real interested in everytrail and have mined about of the data available there.
    - Accomplished by writing a php script just to iterate through the ID's and download the gpx files and parse for the category
  - Minor edits to the lost track website http://tanglefoot.cs.byu.edu/~snppla/losttrack/
  - Searched for a GIS of trails (no success…)
  - Prepared for the field trial (including telling my fiancee that I can't stay up till odd hours of the night on Friday).
- Things to do
  - Go to the field trial and remember my assignments
  - Finish mining from everytrail
  - Write some type of disclaimer for the website (I might need some of Jame's technical writing skills.) Here is a course outline of that I have so far. http://tanglefoot.cs.byu.edu/~snppla/losttrack/disclaimer.html
  - Advertise the website
  - Work with James to make analyze the data.
- New Idea
  - The game World of Warcraft is a game with a virtual world with all sorts of terrian (slopes, vegetation, water, etc). Perhaps we could also study movements from here to model a person's movement in real life. So maybe setup a trial where we take someone inexperienced with WOW, have them “lost”, and tell them to find a city. Just an idea.

11AM - 2220 TMCB

Unless my information is wrong, this is our next meeting. –Spengy 13:13, 6 May 2009 (EDT)

This is correct. –snppla 16:37, 7 May 2009 (EDT)

General stuff: status reports

General Stuff: Kickoff.

Stuff for everyone
- Read all the papers Dr. Goodrich gave us
- Get a demonstration of UAV control systems and whatnot from Mike Roscheck (WE STILL NEED TO DO THIS - when is he doing a flight test?)
- Get a demo from Lanny
- Find good GPS units (DONE)

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