Archive of posts from 2019

  • E4E Summer 2020 REU

    Posted on Dec 10, 2019

    featured image We are now taking applications for our 2020 summer REU! If you are interested in spending the summer in San Diego working on impactful engineering projects and exciting fieldwork, please apply to be considered for our summer REU program. Go to e4e.ucsd.edu/apply to submit your application. Last year, ten students from universities across the US worked on projects including drone based ecological classification, 3D mapping for archaeological sites, and wildlife radio telemetry tracking.  They...

  • E4E Winter 2020 Projects

    Posted on Nov 18, 2019

    featured image We’ve got some exciting new projects for Winter 2020, in addition to our currently running projects. To recap, our projects range from applications to determine population counts for endangered and rare animals, to creating and visualizing data to uncover ecological and archaeological discoveries (e.g. understanding environmental impacts on coral reefs and mapping Maya structures). We are centered around student-led teams who tackle the design process from beginning to end, from planning an...

  • D-SEA Paper Presentation at REUNS 2019 Workshop

    Posted on Nov 12, 2019

    featured image During this past summer’s E4E REU program, Charmaine Beluso, Anfeng Xu, Eamon Patamasing, and Brian Sebastian wrote a research paper based on the work they conducted when creating the Depth-Sensor Enclosed Application (D-SEA) prototype. On November 4th, Charmaine Beluso and Anfeng Xu represented the D-SEA team as they presented the paper at the Sixth National Workshop for REU Research in Networking and Systems (REUNS) hosted by the 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Smart...

  • E4E Fall 2019 Projects

    Posted on Sep 30, 2019

    featured image We’re getting up and running again this quarter, and looking forward to getting some fresh faces and making some progress on our projects. Our open house/information session will be on Tuesday, October 8th at 1pm in Henry Booker Conference room (2512) in Jacobs Hall.  Please come by to hear about our projects and chat with our project leads on how to get involved. To keep up to date with what we’re up to, please join our Google Group, Slack, or show up at one of our weekly meetings (on the ...

  • D-SEA Prototype Testing

    Posted on Sep 24, 2019

    featured image In order to get a deeper understanding of the growth patterns and local impact of coral reefs, researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) are building 3D virtual reality environments of coral reefs to help preserve the visual integrity of the underwater environment. To build these interactive environments, depth information is essential to accurately depict the structure and levels of the reef, but gathering this data is cumbersome and expensive. ...

  • E4E Summer 2019 REU Final Presentation

    Posted on Aug 19, 2019

    featured image On August 28th, our summer undergraduate researchers presented their progress on the projects they worked on over the summer.  They traveled to Mexico, Guatemala, and Turks and Caicos deploying the technologies that they developed and have a lot of good data and stories to share. The researchers gave a short presentation of their projects followed by hands-on demonstrations. Our summer program had nearly 20 participants working on different projects. This presentation overviews these project...

  • Baboon Labelthon

    Posted on Aug 14, 2019

    featured image On August 2nd, the Baboon project team dedicated a day to label baboons from the drone footage taken by Neil Thomas in Kenya. The software used to annotate these videos is called CVAT and is an approach for labeling baboons for verification of the baboon project’s tracking algorithm. The annotated data generated can provide researchers an accurate map of the location of each baboon in the troop at any given point in time, giving them insight into the decision making process of the baboon troo...

  • Measuring the Warren Bear

    Posted on Jul 18, 2019

    featured image How do current mangrove measuring methods “stack” up? Today, summer REU students Christianna Bambini and Alli Busa tested current canopy height measurement tools using PVC pipes. While there are accurate methods to measure trees, in a mangrove environment, canopy height cannot be measured in these ways due to the extreme density within mangrove forests. Here, the PVC pipe method is being tested as a potential option to accurately determine canopy height, which can then be applied as a paramet...

  • E4E Summer 2019 REU Students

    Posted on Jul 5, 2019

    featured image This summer, we are hosting 13 students from around the US in our 2019 summer REU program. We’ll be working on projects from mapping tunnels, corals, and mangrove to tracking animals with drones. Meet our students by reading their bios below: Christianna Bambini is a rising senior at Johns Hopkins University studying mechanical engineering. She is excited to apply her background in mechanical design for the mangrove mapping project this summ...

  • New Hover 1

    Posted on Jun 28, 2019

    featured image On Jun 27th, Eric Lo, Nathan Hui, Eric Tran, and Emmanuel Gharehbekloo took E4E’s newest copter for its maiden flight. This copter is a FoxTech Hover 1 with a PixHawk autopilot, and will primarily be used to support the Radio Telemetry Tracker project. Its first deployment will be to the Turks and Caicos Islands this August. Maiden Flight of the FoxTech Hover 1 with full crew.