{"id":15447,"date":"2013-04-02T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T18:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=15447"},"modified":"2021-11-26T14:10:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T00:10:20","slug":"collaboration-soars-with-uh-drone-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/02\/collaboration-soars-with-uh-drone-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration soars with <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> drone project"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fV9k9uRWnAU\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa students from two completely different disciplines are collaborating on a project that involves an unmanned aerial vehicle, also known as a <abbr>UAV<\/abbr> or drone. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Chuck Devaney<\/strong>, a graduate student in geography, is engaged on high resolution, aerial photography. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To look at vegetation conditions in and around the island and also have a look at some of the archeological features,&rdquo; said Devaney. <\/p>\n<p><strong>David Hummer<\/strong> is a <abbr>PhD<\/abbr> candidate in mechanical engineering and his focus in on building things. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Being an engineer, if it&#8217;s not broken, then it doesn&#8217;t have enough features,&rdquo; said Hummer. <\/p>\n<p>High-resolution aerial imagery is expensive, especially for a graduate student. Before Devaney met Hummer, he had already taken to the skies in an attempt to make his life&#8217;s work more economical. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, first we thought we were going to launch a rocket and tape a phone to it and that turned into the whole kite effort,&rdquo; said Devaney. <\/p>\n<p>But kites need wind, which isn&#8217;t always guaranteed. Eventually, a mutual colleague introduced Hummer to Devaney and the geography drone project took off and there is no telling where it may land. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The <abbr>UAV<\/abbr> has given us a lot more flexibility in terms of the types of environments that we can fly in,&rdquo; said Devaney. &ldquo;The amount of area that we can cover, the stability and it is just lots of fun.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>They spent about $2,000 on materials\u2014a frame, electronics and cameras. It would have been a lot more expensive if they did not build it themselves. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The closest one we found was $50,000 for the package,&rdquo; said Hummer. &ldquo;So if we can fill that part of the market and make it cheaper then it seems like it would be a pretty good idea.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>It remains a work in progress. Both students continue to learn from their successes and failures while making advancements in their individual fields. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You know all the mapping and stitching and analyzing the photos, if I took years of school I could do it but I would rather build the airplane and work on that, and Chuck focused on that part,&rdquo; said Hummer. &ldquo;And together we could so something that neither of us could do without each other,&rdquo; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa students, from two different disciplines collaborate, on a high-resolution aerial photography project using an unmanned aerial vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[179,38,9],"class_list":["post-15447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-geography","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15447"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152297,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447\/revisions\/152297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}