Friday 4/23/2019 - UAS Mission Planning - Bramor ppX
1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic? (1-No Knowledge at all, 2-Very Little Knowledge, 3-Some knowledge, 4-A good amount of knowledge, 5-I knew all about this)
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2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic? (1- I don’t really know enough to talk about the topic, 2- I know enough to explain what I did, 3-I know enough to repeat what I did, 4-I know enough to teach someone else, 5- I am an expert)
2.4
3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn? (1-Strongly Disagree, 2-Disagree, 3-No real opinion, 4-Agree, 5-Strongly Agree)
3.5
4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?
For my part I was in the latter group of the preflight check on the Bramor UAV, thus I had some knowledge gaps of how to plan a mission. I started this lab by planning missions. The software was very intuitive with a gentle learning curve. Also, I would like to see the actual luanch of the Bramor. Besides that, I am very happy.
Friday 4/5/2019 - Processing Oblique UAS Imagery Using Image Annotation
1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic? (1-No Knowledge at all, 2-Very Little Knowledge, 3-Some knowledge, 4-A good amount of knowledge, 5-I knew all about this)
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2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic? (1- I don’t really know enough to talk about the topic, 2- I know enough to explain what I did, 3-I know enough to repeat what I did, 4-I know enough to teach someone else, 5- I am an expert)
2.4
3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn? (1-Strongly Disagree, 2-Disagree, 3-No real opinion, 4-Agree, 5-Strongly Agree)
3.5
4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?
I had no experience with doing exactly the annotation before. However, this practice of excluding pixels based on certain criteria, I have done in a few different ways ie scripted it in Python. We have worked with Pix4D before, so this was nothing new. But for the first dataset it took a quite big amount of time and patience to process the annotation. Like everyone else in class, I found information on the webpage to Pix4D but it was still not very clear what the exact difference was between masking and carving. Perhaps that could have been explained and shown during the lecture. Except that I have nothing to say that could have been done better. The video materials professor Hupy sometimes was not needed for this part.
Saturday 3/07/2019 - Calculating Impervious Surface Area
1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic? (1-No Knowledge at all, 2-Very Little Knowledge, 3-Some knowledge, 4-A good amount of knowledge, 5-I knew all about this)
1.4
2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic? (1- I don’t really know enough to talk about the topic, 2- I know enough to explain what I did, 3-I know enough to repeat what I did, 4-I know enough to teach someone else, 5- I am an expert)
2.4
3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn? (1-Strongly Disagree, 2-Disagree, 3-No real opinion, 4-Agree, 5-Strongly Agree)
3.5
4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?
This was an interesting lab aiming teach how to classify aerial images and to determine various surface types from different spectral classes. I did some modifications to the surface area calculations which resulted in some differences from ESRI's result. This discrepancy would be interesting to talk about.
Saturday 3/02/2019 - Volumetrics with UAS Data
1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic? (1-No Knowledge at all, 2-Very Little Knowledge, 3-Some knowledge, 4-A good amount of knowledge, 5-I knew all about this)
1.3
2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic? (1- I don’t really know enough to talk about the topic, 2- I know enough to explain what I did, 3-I know enough to repeat what I did, 4-I know enough to teach someone else, 5- I am an expert)
2.4
3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn? (1-Strongly Disagree, 2-Disagree, 3-No real opinion, 4-Agree, 5-Strongly Agree)
3.5
4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?
It was an interesting topic in this lab and one can clearly see the benefits of knowing this and how these newly learned skills can get adopted professionally. These labs take a great amount of time, thus it is great by Mr Hupy to not deliver so many specific questions that needs to be addressed this time, but instead letting the students elaborating with the softwares and by that try and fail and try and learn. A few slides with the most basic stuff for the lecture would be appreciated though. Also, the huge differences between ArcGIS software and Pix4DMapper would need an explanation.
Friday 2/15/2019 - Processing Pix4D imagery with GCPs
1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic? (1-No Knowledge at all, 2-Very Little Knowledge, 3-Some knowledge, 4-A good amount of knowledge, 5-I knew all about this)
1.4
2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic? (1- I don’t really know enough to talk about the topic, 2- I know enough to explain what I did, 3-I know enough to repeat what I did, 4-I know enough to teach someone else, 5- I am an expert)
2.4
3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn? (1-Strongly Disagree, 2-Disagree, 3-No real opinion, 4-Agree, 5-Strongly Agree)
3.5
4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?
To start with, it was very good that there were not so many specific questions but instead some ideas what to write of. It was easier to elaborate on the topic an try to find information. If there is something that could have been done to improve this lab, I would say to start the Tuesdays with a brief lecture (10-15 minutes) of the very basic ideas, and definitions. Not just verbally but also written down on a slide or two. Also what could have made it a little bit easier if ideas of what stuff to bring into the maps. I know this is not only about cartography but sometimes it is hard to come up with ideas that really matter and what does not. For the GCPs, I tried to focus on the quality it often brings into the game, but how to display it is harder.
Friday 2/08/2019 - Processing Image data in Pix4D (without GCPs)
1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic? (1-No Knowledge at all, 2-Very Little Knowledge, 3-Some knowledge, 4-A good amount of knowledge, 5-I knew all about this)
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2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic? (1- I don’t really know enough to talk about the topic, 2- I know enough to explain what I did, 3-I know enough to repeat what I did, 4-I know enough to teach someone else, 5- I am an expert)
2.4
3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn? (1-Strongly Disagree, 2-Disagree, 3-No real opinion, 4-Agree, 5-Strongly Agree)
3.4
4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?
I am curious how working with GCPs will turn out, would be cool to get a better understanding. I really like the way Professor Hupy's directs time to software learning in class. The more focus on this the better. However, I would like to have the document of the work made in a more clear way. Like it is now, it is not 100% sure what questions need to be addressed and which are examples of things to discuss. I know that improvements to this document would be very much welcomed.
Friday 2/01/2019 - Creating Orthomosaic in ArcPro
1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic? (1-No Knowledge at all, 2-Very Little Knowledge, 3-Some knowledge, 4-A good amount of knowledge, 5-I knew all about this)
1.4
2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic? (1- I don’t really know enough to talk about the topic, 2- I know enough to explain what I did, 3-I know enough to repeat what I did, 4-I know enough to teach someone else, 5- I am an expert)
2.4
3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn? (1-Strongly Disagree, 2-Disagree, 3-No real opinion, 4-Agree, 5-Strongly Agree)
3.2
4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?
To be honest, there are way too many questions to answer. Doing the work and then primarily answering questions in an appropriate way is extremely time-intensive. Even though the ArcGIS software is open all of the time, I would like to work more with the software itself and do less writing / googling. For example, it could be an idea to do the hands-on work with ArcGIS over and over with just minor changes and compare the results. And the most important, let screenshot of the work do the talking. Also, using GCPs would be cool to get a better understanding, but I assume that will come later.
Thursday 1/24/2019 - Building a Map with UAS Data
1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic? (1-No Knowledge at all, 2-Very Little Knowledge, 3-Some knowledge, 4-A good amount of knowledge, 5-I knew all about this)
1.2
2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic? (1- I don’t really know enough to talk about the topic, 2- I know enough to explain what I did, 3-I know enough to repeat what I did, 4-I know enough to teach someone else, 5- I am an expert)
2.4
3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn? (1-Strongly Disagree, 2-Disagree, 3-No real opinion, 4-Agree, 5-Strongly Agree)
3.5
4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?
This was a fun activity and in the lab, Dr. Hupy showed us both ArcMap and ArcScene in a how-to-approach. I really like working with the software. Now, what really time-consuming is the formatting and answering the questions, which often is pretty similar and repetitive. Besides that I would prefer if there were less specific questions, I am very pleased with the content of the "Building a map with UAS data"-lab.
Thursday 1/17/2019 - Geospatial science
1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic? (1-No Knowledge at all, 2-Very Little Knowledge, 3-Some knowledge, 4-A good amount of knowledge, 5-I knew all about this)
1.4
2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic? (1- I don’t really know enough to talk about the topic, 2- I know enough to explain what I did, 3-I know enough to repeat what I did, 4-I know enough to teach someone else, 5- I am an expert)
2.4
3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn? (1-Strongly Disagree, 2-Disagree, 3-No real opinion, 4-Agree, 5-Strongly Agree)
3.4
4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?
I did spend too much time writing and creating the blog. Formatting and language issues and evaluations of how my page should look has been my main concern. I would like to have my blog evaluated and tips on how to work with this in a faster way. The content of the Geospatial lecture/lab was made up in a very good way, structured and illustrated. I cannot come up with any major ideas what I would like to change from this week.
Thursday 1/10/2019 - Blog creation
1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic? (1-No Knowledge at all, 2-Very Little Knowledge, 3-Some knowledge, 4-A good amount of knowledge, 5-I knew all about this)
1.1
2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic? (1- I don’t really know enough to talk about the topic, 2- I know enough to explain what I did, 3-I know enough to repeat what I did, 4-I know enough to teach someone else, 5- I am an expert)
2.3
3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn? (1-Strongly Disagree, 2-Disagree, 3-No real opinion, 4-Agree, 5-Strongly Agree)
3.5
4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?
Before this lab, I had not done any blogging at all. I had a web page for about 15 years ago, which I scripted in HTML but I have not practiced that skills anything since then. Therefore I had some basic stuff explained by our TA Evan Hockridge. After this lab, I feel more comfortable and a basis of understanding has started to evolve. This could be really fun after all :) An open environment where it is possible to ask anything (even questions with obvious answers to many) is key to make this activity as good as possible.
Also, as a side note, at today's lecture, Professor Joseph Hupy was going through different softwares that we are going to utilize in this course. He was showing us ArcMap (16bit), ArcPro (64bit), LineVision, Pix4Dmapper, whereas the first two are so-called GIS-softwares. GIS is designed to store, display and analyze all types of geographic and spatial data. LineVision is a software that engages in video and photo geotagging and is GIS-compatible with both ESRIs products and QGIS. Pix4D is a photogrammetry software for professional drone-mapping.
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