Editing Meeting Minutes/10-22-2018

RHLUG meeting minutes Oct 22 2018

Week 8, official meeting

Major decisions: Meeting date changed to Monday at 6:30pm to avoid other club conflicts. Meetings are now open hours like the Rose Tech Radio Club to allow flexibility w/ schedules.

2 officers and about 5 members were present.

Project planning:

- Discussed Agisoft Photoscan and drones for the upcoming project to map 3D model of campus. We decided to use Agisoft software ($550) 

    - Funding still needed, OTFR (through SGA) or marketing dept

    - Deciding how to map each part of the campus for the project

    - Discussing Hinton server specs for memory constraints for creating the 3D model - it has 128 GiB of memory so it will work fine

    - Chunks are OK as a way to get parts of the project done

    - Agisoft has a "point cloud" model and a "tiled" model (which is what we want)

- Drone images will likely be available publicly/open sourced under a nonrestrictive license

- Our 3D model will be public/open sourced under a noncommercial license 
to comply w/ Agisoft's noncommercial terms

- We're finding someone with a DJI or similar drone, Jacob has an iPad

- Another idea is to scan pictures of interior buildings (probably w/ panorama camera or 360 camera?)

- DroneDeploy is useful for mapping the campus