Thomas Sayre-McCord

TL;DR: The Danger Islands appear to have avoided recent declines documented on the Western AP and, because they are large and likely to remain an important hotspot for avian abundance under projected climate change, deserve special consideration in the negotiation and design of Marine Protected Areas in the region.

TL;DR: The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Jetyak as mentioned in this paper is a small autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) designed for the collection of oceanographic data from shallow or dangerous waters, which is the result of custom modifications to a Mokai jet-powered kayak, including an A-frame and sea chest for installation of instrumentation.

TL;DR: The Blackbird dataset as mentioned in this paper is a large-scale, aggressive indoor flight dataset collected using a custom-built quadrotor platform for use in evaluation of agile perception, which contains over 10 h of flight data from 168 flights over 17 flight trajectories and 5 environments at velocities up to 7.0 m.

TL;DR: A new micro UAV platform that integrates high-rate cameras, inertial sensors, and an NVIDIA Jetson Tegra X1 system-on-chip compute module that boasts 256 GPU cores is presented and repeated agile maneuvering with closed-loop vision-based perception and control algorithms are demonstrated.

TL;DR: The Blackbird UAV dataset is well suited to the development of algorithms for visual inertial navigation, 3D reconstruction, and depth estimation, and as a benchmark for future algorithms, the performance of two state-of-the-art visual odometry algorithms are reported and scripts for comparing against the benchmarks are included with the dataset.