About

Gender

Male


About Me:

Agricultural Researcher


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Doing my Masters degree and working with UAVs in precision agriculture - in particular hyperspectral image application in invasive species detection


Hometown:

Toronto


Activity Feed

Alexander replied to Andrii Seleznov's discussion ground truth for NDVI maps in Agricultural UAVs
"Hi Andrii -

This depends on what your hypotheses are and what you expect to measure with ndvi. If you are linking biomass you may want to harvest small plots - if you are doing LAI you will want to measure it directly in plots - or for me I was…"
Apr 9, 2016
Alexander commented on MarioSpeedwagon's blog post More than meets the eye: a bit about caution and credibility
"Hey Mario- In my experiments processing raw data in agisoft, the stitch/blend option that you choose (min/max intensity, average, etc.) makes a drastic difference in the way your mosaic turns out. Some may come out with more or less contrast, etc.…"
Oct 7, 2015
Alexander commented on MarioSpeedwagon's blog post More than meets the eye: a bit about caution and credibility
"Each camera, especially when hitting the NIR bands, typically has a unique bandwidth. So comparing between cameras, even with their NDVIs, you will be getting slightly differing visual results when considering that you are analyzing NDVI from…"
Oct 4, 2015
Alexander posted a discussion
Hello everyone, So I have some drone imagery, too much for manual intervention, that needs to be geotagged. Basically there was some issue with the on board geotagging to exif data- but I do have the trigger coordinates for each photo. I wish I…
Jul 16, 2015
Alexander replied to Alexander's discussion Can Someone Help Me to Identify this Board Part?
"Interesting- well, if that's the case- my quad still beeps when plugging in the battery. Anyways I hope it is a buzzer because it means I can still fly. "
Jun 25, 2015
Alexander posted a discussion
Hi Everyone!So I crashed my drone and this piece broke off my board... I am trying to figure out what it is and if I can still fly my drone without it. Also see the link for reference of where it sits on the…
Jun 24, 2015
Alexander replied to Alexander's discussion Need Help Connecting Quad to Mission Planner
"Thanks for your help Patrick! 

Finally managed to connect it....
basically It won't connect via the port on the underside of the copter... it needs to connect directly into the board inside the shell... which makes for an inconvenience once I put…"
Jun 12, 2015
Alexander replied to Alexander's discussion Need Help Connecting Quad to Mission Planner
"Thanks Patrick! I am going to check it tomorrow when I get to my office! I'll update how this works 

Alex~~"
Jun 9, 2015
Alexander replied to Alexander's discussion Need Help Connecting Quad to Mission Planner
"Hi patrick - thanks for your help

Unfortunately it seems I cannot connect- device manager will not detect anything. I don't think the connector is broken since it lights up my quad when I plug it in... so perhaps it is my board. Is there any other…"
Jun 8, 2015
Alexander replied to Alexander's discussion Need Help Connecting Quad to Mission Planner
"Hi Patrick, 

Thanks for your reply. 

I have checked and I have no COM port in MIssion Planner. I only have Auto, TCP, UDP, UDPCI. I tried all of them with 57600kbit and still no dice. 

Anybody have any ideas as to why I can't connect?

Alex "
Jun 5, 2015
Alexander posted a discussion
Hello All! I am having trouble connecting my quad copter to mission planner. For whatever reason, my computer wont detect it in the usb ports (however it powers the drone up). All the drivers are automatically installed with mission planner.... so I…
May 29, 2015
Alexander left a comment for Mike Governale
"Hi Mike, 
Thanks for your great reply. I hadn't checked this site for a few days and am glad to have seen your response. 
Likewise with me, I work with two local farmers here in Thunder Bay. This season we will be measuring different fungicide and…"
Apr 22, 2015
Alexander commented on Mike Governale's blog post NDVI Wheat Crop Surveys - Behind the Scenes Video & Panoramic
"Hi Mike- great post! Just curious- are you using any of your data for disease detection? and if so, how effective has it been? (unless this is your first season)

I am flying starting next month- and assessing different levels of fungicide treatment…"
Apr 17, 2015
Alexander replied to John Stuart's discussion Drone NDVI for Plant Nutrition Testing in Agricultural UAVs
"Hey John- 

Really, thanks a lot for posting this image set for me. It will be of great use in my class- I really appreciate it! 

Alex"
Mar 26, 2015
Alexander replied to John Stuart's discussion Drone NDVI for Plant Nutrition Testing in Agricultural UAVs
"Hi- Thanks for your great article. Would you be able to provide the raw 4-band stack image so I can try my own VNIR indices on it? This is for a class. Thanks 

Alex"
Mar 24, 2015
Alexander posted a discussion in Agricultural UAVs
Hello everyone, I am in need of some raw data taken over row crops in spring or summer from preferably a multispec sensor that covers from visual to NIR. I would like to use it as a demonstration for classification with ecognition in my class. There…
Feb 5, 2015
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