9/7/2020

Treston Russell

AT 409

Week 2 Individual Field Report

Week 2 into the UAS capstone lab was centered around a search and rescue operation along with an introduction to Martell forest property. I was placed in the recovery team 2, which had the task to search an area with a possible match of the missing person. We unfortunately were not deployed during this operation due to loss of time. This mission was conducted with the Bramor UAV, equipped with a Sony RX1 sensor, at 11:04 a.m. on September first. The Bramor flew a predesignated flight plan over Martell forest for optimal space coverage of 100m with 80/80 overlap. The Bramor finished the mission and landed at 11:49 a.m. via deployed parachute. Once the Bramor was brought back to the ground station area, the SSD card was removed and handed over to the intel branch for review. The lengthy review process was as far as the mission got, due to time. 

During this time another mission was flown with the M600 hexacopter. The M600 was equipped with two sensors, a Zenmuse XT2 10mm thermal and RGB lens and a Sony Alpha 6000 mapping sensor. For proper mapping and data collection with this airframe a Geosnap PPK receiver is mounted to the top. The mission for this airframe was to autonomously map a section of the Martell forest property with a predetermined flight. Takeoff time for this mission was 12:15 p.m. on September first. The mission took 313 images at 500ft agl over the flight area. At 12:37 the mission came to a conclusion with a manual landing. For optimal mapping outcomes, the collected data had to be taken back to the lab and processed.