Week 1 Capstone Project Update

Week one has officially started for our Capstone Project. Over winter break, as a class, we have gotten a lot of necessary preparation done. We have had a few class meetings to help organize this semester so far. Everyone has been doing a lot of work to prepare for our first flight. I am thinking it will be in the next few weeks. We still have a lot of work to do. As project manager on this team, I have tried to be involved as much as possible in all work being done. I have asked for weekly reports from the team so I know where we are in the project and I am in charge or relaying this information with professor Hupy. So far a lot has been done including: flight schedules, meta data formatting, development of file and data storage pathing, courtesy notice document formatting, payload integration, and a lot of other planning as well. We have had two class sessions, one on Monday 1/7 and one on Wednesday 1/9. Our first class session was familiarizing the class with what this semester will look like, and getting to know our new equipment. For class on 1/9 Evan Hockridge took point in data mapping, and meta data formatting. We then had time to complete tasks within our own teams. Kyle Sheehan and coordinated our goals for next week which includes ground point work and naming points on our amphitheater map. In class, I scribbled down some deliverables I'd like to see in the next few weeks as well as check lists that I know need to be completed before each flight. You can find those note in the figures and field notes sections of my blog!