Tidal
TIDAL AUTHORS
Richard Stinson
Richard is a senior Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering student at ODU, with a concentration in Mechanical Design and Analysis. He will be graduating in December of 2016, and will work for the Department of Defense as a Mechanical Engineer at NAVAIR in Pax River, MD.
Lauren Pasanen
Steven Snyder
Jason Harris
Jason is a Senior Electrical and Computer Engineering student at Old Dominion University.
Stephen Buchanan
I’m a senior Mechanical Engineering student at Old Dominion University
Mark Wright
I am a Senior Mechanical Engineering major.
TIDAL BLOG
Tidal Team Project Outcome
In Norfolk, Virginia flooding is a seemingly ever present issue. Tidal flooding occurs and when compounded by heavy rain or hurricanes, serious damage can be done to property in the area. Our...
Tidal Mission Blueprints
Core Problem In Norfolk, VA there is tidal flooding on a monthly basis. When you add to that, hurricanes or rain the end result can cost millions of dollars for local residents. Taking aerial...
Tidal Gimbal Assembly
Today the tidal team assembled our gimbal and GoPro 3 to our quadcopter. A gimbal is a mechanism that keeps an instrument like a camera horizontal and in a stable position while in motion. We...
GIS Software for Flood Area Mapping
Today, the Tidal team had a meeting with our project adviser, George McLeod, who taught the team how to use specialized GIS (Geographic Information System) software to take images gathered from...
Meet the Tidal Team
Have you ever parked your car on the side of a street on a sunny day and return to a flooded vehicle? We are the Tidal team from Old Dominion University, and we are looking for a solution to...
Tidal Mission Objective
This slide was put together by the tidal flooding team, to discuss the objectives of our project and how we plan to implement our drone as a possible solution to this objective. The slide can be...
Tidal Bill of Materials
This week the tidal flooding group created a bill of materials for the project. We will need a GoPro HERO5 Black camera in order to take photos of flooding around Hampton Roads, with a GPS stamp....
Rising Tides: How Tidal Flooding Threatens Hampton Roads
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...
Getting Started with Tidal Flooding
Tidal flooding affects the lives of many people who live in coastal areas such as Norfolk, VA. Therefore there is great need for the accurate recording and mapping of flooded areas, we look to...
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