Day 497 of 1000
Troy, Christian, François, and I all met down at the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Laboratory at NCSU this morning to work on the GaugeCam project. It was very interesting. I have not really done anything on the project for several months, but François has been pretty busy. There were two items that were of particular interest. First, François visited Bangladesh with a team of scientists to work on some agricultural water research. They were able to use the GaugeCam cameras to monitor water levels as water passed through a crop field.
The second was even more interesting. Based on research performed using the GaugeCam water level measurement tools, it was determined that a whole category of pressure sensors used by the USGS to measure water level are significantly inaccurate, especially when water levels are rising or falling. The first paper based on our research will be published in several months. There are two (and probably a third) additional papers for which data has already been gathered.
A have my work cut out for me over the next several days as I have some software deliveries that are required to complete the analysis of the data.