DRAGEN Tales features projects from the DRAGEN Lab and Environments of Change.

GPS and Lidar Drone Training: Transdisciplinary Collaboration at  Streethouse Farm
Steven Bednarksi Steven Bednarksi

GPS and Lidar Drone Training: Transdisciplinary Collaboration at  Streethouse Farm

Last week, our Streethouse team received GPS training, and learned about the process of Lidar drone scanning on-site by a third party called Tri-Tech Surveys, out of North Yorkshire. Throughout the process, our representative named Johnny, supported our team in learning the basics to capturing GPS location data, and had students mastering the skill of using a surveying GPS in preparation for sedimentary core sampling which would begin the next day. This is a skillset that would also later be applied to archaeological field work with Dr. Stephen Sherlock.

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