DAY 9 – POST FLIGHT CHECKS
Today was a quiet day spent cleaning all of the kit and getting it ready for storage e.g. discharging batteries…
The Health of the Ganges and its Ecosystem
DAY 10 – VALIDATION POINTS AND WRAPPING UP
We are now sadly getting towards the end of our trip with only a couple of days left. In the…
DAY 8 – SUCCESS
So today was the day flew, and it was great! A crowd from the local village we had driven through…
DAY 6 – PROCESSING PROCESSING PROCESSING
Being a Sunday there were very few other people were working so we couldn’t go anywhere to collect data. So as…
CAKE ANYONE?
Last night it was Rajiv’s birthday so we went to his house and had cake followed by dinner with his…
DAY 7 – FIELD SITE FOUND
We drove out to Bithour to look for field sites which we had identified as possible study areas from Google…
SHOPPING
Patrice and I were invited out to dinner with Rajiv and his wife in central Kanpur to a South Indian…
DAY 5 – VALIDATING BY GPS
In the morning we sent Dipro to the central police station to seek clearance for flying as it is easier…
DAY 3 – GETTING TO GRIPS WITH GPS
In the morning we went to the Lab early to see the data that had been crunching overnight creating a…
DAY 4 – FINALISING FLYING AND CHOOSING FLYING SITES
We headed out in the early morning to fly on the airfield again to test out the IR camera again but…