Coding Day 6/25

The plan at the start of the day was to deploy with both the Gavia and the IVER3 at the Schnellboot, HMS Southwold, and SS Polynesian in order to get multi-beam data for the Southwold and Polynesian while getting camera data from the Schnellboot. Unfortunately, the sea was too rough and the deployment was deemed too risky. The multi-beam data would have served as the basis for a series of camera runs on the "new" wrecks while the existing side scan sonar data collected during our large survey would have been used for the Schnellboot. The Gavia is a new AUV acquired by Professor Gambin which is rated for deeper work and is able to gather both side scan and multi beam sonar data, allowing it to get both high definition scans of wrecks when operating close to the bottom but also capable of conducting wide surveys from a higher altitude.

Teledyne Gavia AUV

Nandeeka and I worked on marking the 2017 data for wrecks that were more compatible with the current neural network. Some of the previous wrecks that were marked were more probable wrecks, and thus didn't serve as good training data. Sam and Russell planned missions for Tuesday that would implement the path finding algorithm developed by the previous years team. Bonita and Mitchell worked on obtaining a camera calibration for the GoPro Hero4 so that it's camera footage could be used with the Hero we brought from Mudd. Finally Cole worked on improving the computer model of the Maori so that he could give recommendations to the path planning teams of what sections of the Maori should be focused on in future missions.

The team hard at work

We went to dinner at a very nice restaurant with some refreshing smoothies and great pasta, all in all a great end to a productive day.

Pasta and smoothies!

- Makoto