Reminder - the Flying Bison coffee talk will be in Olin 268 at noon today. Here's the message center listing for the event: Dan Farrell '12 and Nick Urban '12 will be giving the coffee talk on Monday, September 26 at Noon in the Olin auditorium (Olin 268). The title of their talk is "The Flying Bison: A Student UAV Project." ABSTRACT: UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are … [Read more...]
Physics Dept coffee talk on using the Flying Bison drone to collect aerial imagery
Come hear Nick Urban, Computer Science '12, talk about designing, building and flying the remote-controlled Flying Bison drone. Nick will be presenting on Monday, 9/26 at noon (Olin 364) as part of the Physics department's coffee talk series. He'll have the plane with him and will be showing some new video that will be captured by the drone in test flights he's conducting this … [Read more...]
Keystone Edge story about the Flying Bison
The online journal, Keystone Edge, recently picked up the story of Nick Urban and the Flying Bison drone. Published by Issue Media Group, the Keystone Edge ... tells the story of the new economy in Pennsylvania--a narrative of creative people and businesses, new development, cool places to live, and the best places to work and play. Each Thursday, the Web site and weekly … [Read more...]
GIS posters at Sigma Xi summer research symposium
Come to the Sigma Xi summer research symposium on Wednesday, July 27th from 2-4pm at the Langone Center's Terrace room to check out posters by student researchers. There will be a variety of posters that feature GIS as a research methodology and/or visualization tool - including posters about the Flying Bison drone, community asset mapping, georeferencing historic maps, … [Read more...]