Rising Tides: How Tidal Flooding Threatens Hampton Roads

Rising Tides: How Tidal Flooding Threatens Hampton Roads

Oct 19, 2016 | Tidal

The goal of our project is to monitor and record tidal flooding using a quad copter to take top down images of real time tidal flooding. Tidal flooding affects many people along who live in coastal cities, but we will be focusing on neighborhoods around Old Dominion...
Bee-ing Aware of The Problem

Bee-ing Aware of The Problem

Oct 18, 2016 | Drones Helping Drones, Team 8

The value of honey bee pollination in the United States’ agricultural industries is over $14 billion annually[1]; these tiny insects are a vitally important part to the life cycle of a multitude of crops. Unfortunately, Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is now...
“Tech” Talk

“Tech” Talk

Oct 18, 2016 | Wind

When shining a light through a window, one can open and close the blinds to blink out Morse code. Even if the message is misunderstood, we can still see the light blinking. Similarly, our radios work like Morse code by blinking light at the quad-copter, so it can move...
City Walls Prototype Presentation

City Walls Prototype Presentation

Oct 17, 2016 | City Walls

How can drones change the way we track erosion of historic monuments? The City Walls team at JMU is constructing a drone to assist in the conservational studies of the 16th century walls that surround the old part of Cartagena city in Colombia. Ph.D. candidate Manuel...