Is it a bird? It's a ... cool toy for hydro - remotesensing

R-Pod is a project of imaging robot dedicated to geomatic applications. It consists of hardware developed by senseFly, an EPFL spin-off (micromechanics) and software developed by Pix4D, also an EPFL spin-off (Computer Vision). Both components were reliable and flexible enough, two conditions needed in order to optimize the workflow for photogrammetric and remote sensing applications. During the demonstration, the concept and the mission preparation will be shown, and then the flight will be carried out, weather depending. A new, simple FCIR camera will be used over the Irchel Park at a flying height of 150 m. Finally, first results will be displayed and commented and the complete workflow will be explained. The whole demonstration should last about an hour, the duration of a typical punctual mission, in time and in space. This should lead to a
discussion about “Kleenex” geodata, easy to acquire, very useful, yet rapidly obsolete.(From RSL Flyer)    For demo play VDO below

The drone

The drone (Click to enlarge)

The result a remote sensing picture of Irchel

Irchel park (Click to enlarge)

'Faster than the speed of light'

CERN scientists 'break the speed of light' 

Scientists said on Thursday they recorded particles travelling faster than light - a finding that could overturn one of Einstein's fundamental laws of the universe. (telegraph.co.uk)

If it does not, one of the pillars of modern science may come tumbling down.

(.bbc.co.uk/news/)

Cern UPDATE 23 February 2012

The OPERA collaboration has informed its funding agencies and host laboratories that it has identified two possible effects that could have an influence on its neutrino timing measurement. These both require further tests with a short pulsed beam. If confirmed, one would increase the size of the measured effect, the other would diminish it. The first possible effect concerns an oscillator used to provide the time stamps for GPS synchronizations. It could have led to an overestimate of the neutrino's time of flight. The second concerns the optical fibre connector that brings the external GPS signal to the OPERA master clock, which may not have been functioning correctly when the measurements were taken. If this is the case, it could have led to an underestimate of the time of flight of the neutrinos. The potential extent of these two effects is being studied by the OPERA collaboration. New measurements with short pulsed beams are scheduled for May. (Cern)

So we Einstein was wrong? A problem with our conceptual model of the Universe or just a software problem or cable connection like we face some time in hydrology  see Hydrologist vs. nature ... PART III


More on Einstein http://www.alberteinsteinsite.com

Hydro vs. Nature. An overestimation of the speed of light/ rain... ?

Cloud @ CERN