About

Gender

Male


Location

Oxford, Oxfordshire


About Me:

Electrical Engineer turned Tropical Ecologist, currently a post-doctoral research at the University of Oxford.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Interested in UAVs for ecological surveys and monitoring, combining with ground based measurements to scale up our understanding of how forests and ecosystems function as the climate changes. Interested in RGB, multispectral, hyperspectral, thermal, and lidar sensors.


Hometown:

Berkeley, CA


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Alexander Shenkin replied to Alexander Shenkin's discussion Add RTH at end of mission? in UgCS
"Thanks Janis.  Do you know if it's possible to add an RTH command to a route at all?  I'm thinking about manually adding an RTH command at the end of the json file that gets uploaded to the drone, but perhaps the json is just the UgCS format, and…"
Mar 27, 2020
Alexander Shenkin posted discussions in UgCS
Mar 26, 2020
Alexander Shenkin replied to Alexander Shenkin's discussion How to get started with fixed wings?
"Thanks Andreas,
That's helpful.  Now I'm searching around for a kit that comes with everything, but that I would put together (simpler for a first project than going out and spec'ing out all the parts myself, but more fun and instructive than buying…"
Nov 28, 2018
Alexander Shenkin posted a discussion
Hi all,I have a number of 3DR Solos, one equipped with a rededge-m, that i use for forest surveys.  I'm interested in getting my feet wet with fixed wings for larger areas.  I'm wondering if someone could point me to some good resources to get…
Nov 1, 2018