Low Head Dam Removal

Our work continues out at the low head dam site in Logansport, IN. This past July we met with Dr. Jerry Sweeten’s group (Senior Research Ecologist with Ecosystems Connections Institute) and Greg Toth (Superintendent of the Logansport Municipal Utilities) along the banks of the Eel river and captured UAV imagery of the dam. Since then, the dam has been demolished …

Mapping the Gold Coast – Lakewood, Ohio Data Collection

Nikhil and Joshua drove out to Lakewood, Ohio on November 10th, 2021 to collect data along a portion of Lake Erie’s coastline known as the Gold Coast. This mission is part of a collaborative effort with KS Associates, an Ohio-based civil engineering firm, to explore the application of UAV mapping in civil engineering projects. The goal of this mission was …

Digitizing Martell Forest

Recently, the GDSL team has focused on the ambitious goal of creating a high-resolution, multi-temporal dataset of the entirety of Martell Forest. In July we covered all 477 acres with our new DJI Zenmuse L1 LiDAR sensor. Check out the results! Through the summer and fall we’ve mobilized several times to capture the forest with our go-to photogrammetry sensor, the …