Abstract The Geometer is a new handheld USB device that facilitates a relatively accurate measurement of the declination to a target with instantaneous recording of this and other data. The […]
Geometer and Mysticetus software
Our team flew an aerial survey for cetaceans in the Canadian Arctic in the summer of 2020, using four observers split between two platforms on a DeHavilland Twin Otter aircraft. Our […]
Testing of Geometer, February 2020
Thanks to the collaboration of Baldur Thorgilsson (Pi Technology, Reykjavik-Iceland) and Javier Hevia (Grup Air-Med, Tarragona-Spain) ALNILAM was able to test the geometer, a new device developed by Pi […]
Meet us at WMMC19
Meet us at the World Marine Mammal Conference 2019 in Barcelona 8-12 December See you there 🙂
Survey in Canada 2019
Our team flew an aerial survey for cetaceans around Newfoundland and Labrador in 2019, using three observers split between two platforms on a DeHavilland Twin Otter aircraft. This is the […]
Geometer version 2 Status report 2016-10-06
Introduction The Geometer is a device to measure 3D orientation and is intended for areal surveys of whales and similar. It works with the PiAttitude software that runs on Windows […]
Using the Geometer in a cetacean survey, Iceland 2016
Our team flew an aerial survey for cetaceans around Iceland in July 2016, using four observers split between two platforms on a DeHavilland Twin Otter aircraft. This is the second […]
Survey in Iceland 2015
An image taken when testing the facilities in the airplane The Geometer V1 was used successfully in an aerial cetacean survey around Iceland in the summer 2015. The development […]
Inclinometer replacement
Experiments during a whale survey around Iceland in the summer 2015 showed that the Geometer V1 could replace the readings of a traditional inclinometer. In stead of having to manually […]