We are sitting in a brightly-lit computer lab with 19 other University of Vermont (UVM) students. Everyone is scrolling through satellite imagery of landscapes in Zambia, looking for small grey clusters of pixels with regular shadows that indicate buildings.
The Drone Field Trip is upon us!
Looking at the weather forecast, it is supposed to be quite hot and possibly rainy in the afternoon. We are hoping that all will go forward as planned, but please do keep in mind that this will be a weather dependent event.
Current Drone Field Trip Plan:
Curled up in the driver's seat of a mud-layered pickup truck, I carefully tap out some final code adjustments on my laptop. The hum of the generator in the back drowns out the quiet air-gulping noises from our greenhouse gas analyzer beside it, so I keep a careful eye on the clock. Eight more minutes before the measurements from static chamber number 28 will be finished. Eight more minutes to combine the measurements from static chamber 27 with temperature, precipitation and soil moisture data and run it all through some quick soil flux rate analysis scripts.
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