Derek Ford

2020 MA recipient UH Manoa Geography. GIS and remote sensing for natural and built environments.

[UH Geography & Environment @geog_uhm]

UH GEO Professor Dave Beilman and recent MA grad Derek Ford (@Island_UAV) have a new paper about Antarctic glacier dynamics and cryosphere-biosphere connections using previously ice-entombed plants @uwgg @dulcineagroff, https://t.co/p5myIpy8a5.

[Derek Ford @Island_UAV]

Freshly published paper assessing the recreational value of Maui’s coral reefs. For this paper I got to inventory every beach and public park on Maui, do travel-cost GIS analyses, and of course make some beautiful maps! https://t.co/lWtoIawDwR

[Derek Ford @Island_UAV]

Iʻm super excited to be joining the Pacific Drought Knowledge Exchange (PDKE) in the @EastWestCenter at UH Manoa. Call me the climate guy 🌳💧🔥🌤🤙🏽

[Derek Ford @Island_UAV]

My niece finally (and briefly) fits the @NSF onesie I got her. Now let’s eat some spaghetti!

[Derek Ford @Island_UAV]

Drone imagery used for estimating ground elevation and tree heights. @DJIGlobal @Esri
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#drone #uav #uas #uavmapping #dronemapping #agisoft #gis #arcgispro #vegetationmapping #remotesensing

[UH Geography & Environment @geog_uhm]

Congratulations to UH Geography and Environment MA student Derek Ford (@Island_UAV) on the successful defense of his thesis last week -- "UAV Imagery for Tree Species Classification in Hawai‘i: A Comparison of MLC, RF, and CNN Supervised Classification."

[Derek Ford @Island_UAV]

Using visible light and NIR indices to quickly mask out shadows and identify health vegetation. From a drone of course! #uav #uas #drone #dronedata #dronemapping #vegetationmapping #vegetationindex #planthealth

[Derek Ford @Island_UAV]

We basically just caught bigfoot https://t.co/mQwEiWpfg9

[Derek Ford @Island_UAV]

https://t.co/x0MslEqlzt provides a crowd-sourced global map of fruit trees. 🍌🍊🥑
@Falling_Fruit #foodsecurity #urbangarden #urbanagriculture

[Scott Hotaling @MtnScience]

Nice article by @JiminAntarctica on our recent return from Antarctica during a pandemic. It was a wild time. Glad to be home!

[Derek Ford @Island_UAV]

Here's an awesome article about the work we just did in #antarctica!
The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica - Masses of Mosses https://t.co/s51ebkHgXA

[Chrislyn DeMattos @cldemattos]

#Drones aren’t just for fun! We learned in #NREMseminar they can be research tools in remote locations like #Antarctica! Dr. Bielman and @Island_UAV shared their experiences using drones for collecting data during their recent research trip to Antarctica. https://t.co/6YJ1vp1DCD

[Lansing Y Perng @LYPerng]

Come watch Dr. David Beilman and @Island_UAV of @uhmanoa talk about how they use #drones to assess climate change effects in #Antarctica. Join us on Zoom next Wed from 3:30-4:20 https://t.co/tHZ6Wd9Fgv

https://t.co/r5YsnvYhOY

[Derek Ford @Island_UAV]

@kmwphawaii My favorite is all forests too!

[Derek Ford @Island_UAV]

Last field day in #antarctica. Checked on the weather station and got some ourselves! This station has already been out for one year, and is out for another with a few more gizmos on it.

[Derek Ford @Island_UAV]

Regarding #coronavirus info, there is a downloadable map out there which you should not download because of malware. It looks very similar to the esri-provided, web-based (no need to download anything) map which is completely safe to use.https://t.co/xijait3hMU

[Derek Ford @Island_UAV]

3D print of a recent study area. Technology is cool.
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@dji @dronedeploy @sketchup #drone #dji #djimavic2pro #uav #uas #photography #dronephotography #mapping #uavmapping #dronemapping #photogrammetry #3Dprinting

[Derek Ford @Island_UAV]

All this in one flight with a modified #dji Mavic 2 Pro. Visible light, #NIR and #LWIR sensors, and it still gets 18+ minutes of steady flight! @dji @flir

[Derek Ford @Island_UAV]

@flir Hi Randall Warnas wasn’t able to help me, can you please refer this question to someone with technical knowledge?

[Derek Ford @Island_UAV]

@flir I’m currently in Antarctica doing UAV thermal mapping with the FLIR Vue Pro R, and would like to know how the sensor sets its time? There doesn’t seem to be a way for me to set it manually. Thanks!

[Derek Ford @Island_UAV]

Using an Apogee #LWIR radiometer for ground-truthing #UAV thermal maps of Antarctic moss beds