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Austin M. Jensen's visit to MESA Lab and his SNRI Invited Seminar

February 17, 2014
The Head of AggieAir Flying Circus (AAFC) Austin M. Jensen visited MESA LAB in UC Merced's Castle Research Facility on Feb. 14, 2014 showing his love in seeing AggieAir's multiplying in California's Central Valley. Morning visitors include a team led by Andy Moreno as well as Dr....

10th MESA LAB R&R Symposium and MESA LAB 2013 top 10s

February 17, 2014
The first R&R was on Feb. 9, 2012 started by Brandon Stark, the MESA LAB MANAGER. The 10th MESA LAB R&R Symposium held on Feb. 8, 2014 from 2-6PM. Details can be found here. The event flyer is here. Dr. Chen announced the MESA LAB 2013 top 10s as follows: Top 10 DRONE News of MESA LAB @...

MESA LAB water data drone featured in CITRIS Newsletter

February 17, 2014
Article title: Elevated Research: Peaceful Apps for a New Generation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (PDF form) http://citris-uc.org/elevated-research-peaceful-apps-for-a-new-generation-of-unmanned-aerial-vehicles-2/ CITRIS: The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society...

MESA LAB welcomes two new visiting professors: Prof. Guimei Zhang and Prof. Xiaodong Sun

January 26, 2014
Dr. Guimei Zhang earned her Ph.D. in 2006 from NWPU, China. She is a full professor in Institute of Computer Vision, Nanchang Hangkong University, since 2011. Her research ares are in Image segmentation theory and method, including extraction surface defection using Otsu algorithm based on...

MESA LAB @ UC MERCED got 9 FAA CoAs! (Certificate of Authorization)

January 26, 2014
It is exciting to announce that UC MERCED MESA LAB has obainted FAA CoA! According to this Map of Domestic Drone Authorizations: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=214769660919529725423.0004bde31d74fe6eb1ece we probably are number 1 in UC system in terms of approved (not applied) FAA...

Fox 26 news story on DATA DRONE @ MESA LAB @ UC MERCED

January 26, 2014
"DATA DRONE" term will be spreading. "DATA DRONE VALLEY" will being forming. Watch the news story and the live eNDA-DRONE demo http://www.kmph.com/story/24486432/u-c-merced-students Next: How to address liabilities and insurance coverage of routine data drone missions? New...

MESA LAB @ UC MERCED listed among top tier

January 26, 2014
We are listed! (see entry #16)

UC Merced Magazine Inaugural Issue features MESA LAB story

November 18, 2013
http://issuu.com/ucmerced/docs/uc_merced_magazine_fall_2013 for whole issue The extracted pdf of our story article from http://communications.ucmerced.edu/node/126 is  here   ENJOY!

California Institute of Drone Engineering Research (CIDER) - A UCM 2020 Strategic Academic Focusing Initiative Proposal

November 18, 2013
For details: check this link California Institute of Drone Engineering Research (CIDER) For other 2020 proposals, check Strategic Academic Focusing Initiative. Good research from a good vision.

Professor Kevin L. Moore and Prof. Deyuan Meng's visit to UC Merced

November 2, 2013
We are very excited to have hosted Professors Kevin L. Moore and Deyuan Meng's visit from 10/31-11/2. Professor Moore gave a ME Seminar (detailed info below). Prof. Deyuan Meng and Prof. Moore together presented at MESA LAB R&R Symposium, their latest developments in ILC (iterative...

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