Finally! Data Collection!!

Finally! Weather was a little terrible but we finally went out and collected our data sets today! The goal for today was to collect the data sets that we would need to begin building our terrain classifier. The data sets we wanted to collect were:

1. Grass
   
2. Dirt
   
3. Gravel/Rock bed
   
4. Trees/Forrest
   
5. Shrubs
   

​We were hoping to go out last Friday but equipment issues plagued us once again. However, not today! Today the hardware worked fine so we trucked out to Parcel B and collected data. I'll start by showing some in-the-moment photos and then the images from the dataset

The Gator approaching the dirt patch to scan it

The Gator and support vehicle (Rhino) in line while scanning some shrubs

The Gator and Rhino together while scanning some grass

So, now here are some photos from the dataset

The first grass patch scan

The second grass patch scan

The dirt patch scan

Rock patch scan

Scan of shrubs

Scan of some woods

Scan of a messy section of Parcel B just for fun

With this data collected, we will now turn our attention to focus on procesing the data and trying to find classifiers that will be able to successfully classify terrain in real time.