During the past few weeks, our class has collectively decided that it would be most effective if all eight of us were to work together on our capstone project. First we had to figure out a location that would allow us to make frequent unrestricted flights. The Tippecanoe County Amphitheater Park located in West Lafayette, Indiana is a very dynamic area with a lot of interesting features and it was determined that this would be the focus of our collective project. We agreed upon the location after discussing it's many different features that will allow us to map out and acquire data. There are many different terrain elements in the vicinity of the park including a river, the amphitheater, a parking lot, large grass fields, and even sections of forest. With the park butting up against a section of the Wabash River, it has an area that is a flood plain during the end of winter and spring time. The park is mostly empty during the week due to the there only being performances on the weekend which works out quite well for us. Making frequent flights will be essential to gathering data to track the impact of flooding over time. We will be using an array of different platforms including a C-Astral Bramor ppX, DJI Matrice 100, DJI Matrice 600 as well as different sensors like a multispectral, thermal, and LiDAR.
Allocating permanent and rotating roles for this project was an extremely important element to these planning sessions. As a group, we discussed what we would like to get out of this project and what elements interest us most. This step was especially important when determining permanent roles enabling us to cater to each person's specific goals. The roles we established included two operations managers, a data manager, a lead author, a ground control lead, a flight engineer lead, and two system integration specialists.
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