“Fall quarter was engaging and full of discoveries.”
“Fall quarter was bumpy, but essential.”
“Fall quarter taught me more about teamwork and perseverance.”

As you can see from our team, Fall quarter was a learning and growing experience together, and we’ve since then taken what we’ve learned from and restructured to make ourselves more efficient and productive. We’ve abolished the sub-teams and have united into one team. Each team member though has taken on a specialty–Dustin and Jose in calibration, Dorsa, Sid, and Michel in coding Matlab, and Kyra in thermocouples.

We’ve purchased glass braided thermocouples in order to accurately measure the temperature of what the image is analyzing. Dustin and Kyra have been using a thermocouple breakout on our Arduino to translate the thermocouple reading into degrees F, C, K, and R. They tested the thermocouple in ice water, boiling water, a match flame, and a propane flame to test accuracy, precision, and temperature capacity.

Dorsa, Sid, and Michel have been working with MatLab code to analyze the images we take to determine the color ratio. Although the images we’ve been analyzing have a single heat spot, we recognize that if users take pictures of drifting fire embers from an actual forest fire, there will be many heat spots in the captured image. So Dorsa, Sid, and Michel have been working on a code that can analyze an image with many heat spots.

Calibration is a huge challenge that Jose is facing. To help calibrate a smartphone camera, he is using its camera Sony IMX240.