With the end of the semester about one week away, I thought I'd revisit the data and compile a list of the uncommon tree species on the entire campus, as promised. This is still not a completely finished list as there are some unidentified trees and some that are only identified by genus. Due to the…

Over the course of this project, we have done numerous flights to map our two forests on the UMBC campus. The recent LIDAR scan also added another layer of detail to our aerial images. Needless to say, we have a very good idea of how each forest looks from above. However, we were interested to see if we…

The tree identification process on the UMBC campus is coming to an end. We have approximately 45 trees that need to be identified before we add the finishing touches on our data collection. With the amount of diverse species present on campus, it helps to know their general distribution in our area. I was…

After another week of sifting through the spreadsheets for the trees on UMBC, I noticed yet another pattern. The Ailanthus tree species (Ailanthus altissima), also known as the Tree of Heaven, was identified a number of times on campus. However, it was only identified in the…

So I was reading over the DIYdrones posts (as I usually do), and I came across an interesting article. 

 Particularly: the article was about us!  Chris Anderson,…

So here's a side project I've been working on since this past summer.  The Ecosynth Hexa Manual is now getting started, and it is publicly view-able on Google Docs.  here are only a few…

Ecosynth was recently featured on the science and tech news website Txchnologist.  Head on over to the article by Wynne Parryabout how we are trying to map forests from the ground and the…