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- | the Bramor catapult and it elegantly launches the UAV device that quickly disappears from view. It will now travel where we cannot. It will be our eyes exploring inhospitable places and forests baking away in the summer sun. We can only wait; catching a glimpse now and then of its outline against the sky or a hint of its engine snoring. | + | |
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+ | ==== Unmanned mission to the realms of Mountain Goats ==== | ||
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+ | 2012-09-11 12:17:55 by Theun Karelse | ||
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+ | The Unmanned RT and C-Astral team set out on the hunt for Wild Goats and Raspberry. | ||
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+ | View from the launch point for the mission, image by Shelly. | ||
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+ | After days of arduous hiking through the valleys and over the mountain ridges of the Slovenian plateau, the Unmanned RT team has safely arrived at Sinji Vrh base camp. The famished travelers are treated to a wonderful meal of Wild Mountain Goat prepared by our host Hieronim and his family. | ||
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+ | Now the next stage of the Unmanned Resilience workshop can start in earnest; the Unmanned Remote Sensing. The team-members now intimately familiar with the landscape, are invited to suggest possible missions with the Bramor UAV. Quite a varied cluster of ideas emerge, including: | ||
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+ | * mapping the remains of the hidden clandestine WW2 forest army hospitals | ||
+ | * mapping Roman archaeological remains | ||
+ | * mapping ticks in meadows (would need low altitude quadrocopter and extremely highres lens) | ||
+ | * mapping underground water-streams and lakes | ||
+ | * a dragonline mission, mapping pyramidal structures and patterns in the forests | ||
+ | * a mountain bear mission (or is that mountain bar mission) | ||
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+ | In the end it's our culinary experiences with the landscape that help to make a choice: the Bramor will be programmed for a dual-mission to discover the fields of forest Raspberries we've encountered and to explore the realms of the mysterious Slovenian Wild Mountain Goats. The stomach is our compass. | ||
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+ | A trail of cars leaves base camp heading for the area we crossed on the last day of the hike. This leads us to the slopes of the last mountain from which we descended to the edge of the plateau. | ||
The team returns back at base camp. Here the analysis of the images captured during the flight can be started. Will we spot the Mountain Goat in it's natural environment? | The team returns back at base camp. Here the analysis of the images captured during the flight can be started. Will we spot the Mountain Goat in it's natural environment? |