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+ | '''On this page we will keep information about future meetings and minutes from past ones''' | ||
+ | Next meeting: 11:00 AM Wednesday, June 10 | ||
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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 | ||
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+ | ==Wednesday May 27th, 2009== | ||
+ | *'''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 | ||
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+ | *'''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?) | ||
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+ | ==Thursday May 21st, 2009== | ||
+ | *'''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. | ||
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+ | *'''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 | ||
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+ | ==Thursday May 14th, 2009== | ||
+ | *'''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. | ||
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+ | *'''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 [http://www.o-utah.org/ 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 | ||
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+ | *'''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. | ||
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+ | ==Monday May 11th, 2009== | ||
+ | 11AM - 2220 TMCB | ||
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+ | Unless my information is wrong, this is our next meeting. --[[User:Spengy|Spengy]] 13:13, 6 May 2009 (EDT) | ||
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+ | This is correct. --[[UseR:snppla|snppla]] 16:37, 7 May 2009 (EDT) | ||
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+ | ==Wednesday May 6th, 2009== | ||
+ | General stuff: status reports | ||
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+ | *Spencer Clark's stuff | ||
+ | ** Email Dr. Goodrich link to wiki for information about the two GPS units we like. (DONE) | ||
+ | ** Contact scout office regarding Spot Satellite Messengers and the data they might have already (Ask Ron Zeemaan for details about which office has these) | ||
+ | ** Possibly contact Sam about activetrails.com data. If he has got 'off trail' data it could be useful to us. | ||
+ | ** Look into dynamic KML/KMZ stuff for Google Earth visualization of data | ||
+ | ** Long term: think about balloons and wireless. Neat stuff. | ||
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+ | *Spencer Gardner's stuff | ||
+ | ** Remember to start taking notes during meetings. | ||
+ | ** Continue to work on Lost Track | ||
+ | ** Figure out if IRB approval is required for the website | ||
+ | ** Approve any advisement for Lost Track with Dr. Goorich. | ||
+ | ** Long term: Think about how to analyze data | ||
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+ | *James Williams' stuff | ||
+ | ** Ditto on taking notes | ||
+ | ** IRB Certification (Done) | ||
+ | ** Continue in depth research of lab progress on WiSAR | ||
+ | ** Continue development of ideas how to get more GPS data from hikers | ||
+ | ** Develop theories on how movement is influenced by | ||
+ | *** Terrain | ||
+ | *** Vegetation | ||
+ | ** Long term: Think about generating accurate images of searcher's perspective without equipping searchers with wireless video cameras. | ||
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+ | ==Monday April 27th, 2009== | ||
+ | General Stuff: Kickoff. | ||
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+ | *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) |