Back to the grind

Well, as glamorous as seeking out illegal and environmentally destructive mining activity is, we have other missions which are just as important. Today we returned to our fundamental mission of mapping primary forest in order to be able to observe its current state and document change through time. Here is a look at this afternoon's flight path:

The 47.5 km flight lasted just under and hour and averaged 55 km/h flight speed. It covers just over 550 ha with an imaging height of 200-250 m AGL (depending on terrain). This flight will be combined with another, adjacent to it just to the north, to create a high resolution (<10 cm pixel size) mosaic of the majority of the area of the CICRA biological station. In addition to being useful in our own ecological research, this imagery will be available to others at CICRA to better inform them about the area in which they work.