From the Shed to the Skies: A Journey of Sensor Development and Deployment Involving Bicycles, Drones and Eagles
Sensor development doesn’t always occur in high tech, air-conditioned laboratories. The first iteration of a lightweight meteorological package designed to be carried by birds involved cycling to a local shop late at night to pick up a Raspberry Pi zero which came free with a magazine. After maturat...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:7741647 2024-09-15T18:10:35+00:00 From the Shed to the Skies: A Journey of Sensor Development and Deployment Involving Bicycles, Drones and Eagles Thomas, Rick Cropley, Ford MacKenzie, Rob Reynolds, James Sadler, Jon Chapman, Lee Quinn, Andrew Zhong, Jian Cai, Xiaoming 2018-04-08 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7741647 unknown Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7741646 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7741647 oai:zenodo.org:7741647 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode EGU, April 2018 info:eu-repo/semantics/conferencePoster 2018 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.774164710.5281/zenodo.7741646 2024-07-26T13:16:45Z Sensor development doesn’t always occur in high tech, air-conditioned laboratories. The first iteration of a lightweight meteorological package designed to be carried by birds involved cycling to a local shop late at night to pick up a Raspberry Pi zero which came free with a magazine. After maturation in a garden shed, involving late-night Python programming and a sprinkling of additional sensors, a functioning prototype emerged capable of making meteorological and positional measurements at up to 5Hz. This prototype was tested first on a bicycle, then a drone, and then a White-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) called Victor in the Scottish highlands (Thomas et al. 2017). A smaller version has been deployed on pigeons and is undergoing modifications to use the LORA network for realtime data transmission. Come and view this poster (with props!) exploring the successes and failures during this sensor develop- ment and the rigorous scientific testing and continuing miniaturisation allowing it to primarily address the important scientific challenge of improving pollution and heat event forecasting in urban areas. Conference Object Haliaeetus albicilla White-tailed eagle Zenodo |
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Sensor development doesn’t always occur in high tech, air-conditioned laboratories. The first iteration of a lightweight meteorological package designed to be carried by birds involved cycling to a local shop late at night to pick up a Raspberry Pi zero which came free with a magazine. After maturation in a garden shed, involving late-night Python programming and a sprinkling of additional sensors, a functioning prototype emerged capable of making meteorological and positional measurements at up to 5Hz. This prototype was tested first on a bicycle, then a drone, and then a White-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) called Victor in the Scottish highlands (Thomas et al. 2017). A smaller version has been deployed on pigeons and is undergoing modifications to use the LORA network for realtime data transmission. Come and view this poster (with props!) exploring the successes and failures during this sensor develop- ment and the rigorous scientific testing and continuing miniaturisation allowing it to primarily address the important scientific challenge of improving pollution and heat event forecasting in urban areas. |
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Thomas, Rick Cropley, Ford MacKenzie, Rob Reynolds, James Sadler, Jon Chapman, Lee Quinn, Andrew Zhong, Jian Cai, Xiaoming From the Shed to the Skies: A Journey of Sensor Development and Deployment Involving Bicycles, Drones and Eagles |
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From the Shed to the Skies: A Journey of Sensor Development and Deployment Involving Bicycles, Drones and Eagles |
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From the Shed to the Skies: A Journey of Sensor Development and Deployment Involving Bicycles, Drones and Eagles |
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From the Shed to the Skies: A Journey of Sensor Development and Deployment Involving Bicycles, Drones and Eagles |
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