Search and Rescue

MY RESEARCH BLOG

williamtweldon

Feb 7, 20203 min read

Testing Infrared in Loc8

During my investigations into Search and Rescue operations infrared sensors were mentioned as an alternative to RGB cameras. The contrast...

williamtweldon

Feb 7, 20203 min read

Finding animals with Loc8

Rapidly finding animals is useful in many fields but this post will focus on agriculture. Through cooperation with Purdue's Beef Unit...

williamtweldon

Feb 7, 20202 min read

Reducing false positives in Loc8 II

Figure 1: GCP without false positives My last Loc8 post focused on reducing false positives while searching for GCPs in a field. That...

williamtweldon

Feb 7, 20202 min read

Reducing false positives in Loc8

Finding GCPs in Loc8 was the topic of my previous blog post. I was able to find many of the points but was given many false positives. I...

williamtweldon

Feb 7, 20202 min read

Finding GCPs with Loc8

I decided to shift my focus from finding missing persons with Loc8 to locating important objects with Loc8. Using the dataset collected...

williamtweldon

Feb 6, 20203 min read

Search and Rescue with Loc8

As mentioned in my previous post about GCP instruction, I had the students hide in a field before doing data collection. I used this data...