- Las Positas College
- Drone Technology
- 3 Steve's Winery
Drone Technology
Work with the Data Yourself
- Download and Install QGIS
- Download any of the monthly data sets, see them below.
- Import the data into QGIS.
- Share what you find!
3 Steves Winery
We are grateful for a budding collaborative effort between award winning 3 Steves Winery and the Drone Tech Program. In a similar manner as our own vinard, we are currently conducting overflights at 3 Steves seven acre three varietal estate vineyard as an additional method for crop management. Below are monthly aerial images
Monthly Data Sets
Below are a selection of our monthly data sets. There are only 2 types of data available:
- RGB are color orthomosiac images in a non-compressed "tiff" format.
- NDVI are agricultural indexes saved a non-compressed "tiff" format.
- Zonal Statistics are a quantitative representation of the NDVI index, each zone is a 8' wide by 6' delineated box overlayed upon the rows, these boxes mimic a single vine, in this case there are 72 rows that contain 5,972 areas of data.
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Common statistics that we can visualize:
- Count: count the number of pixels (a proxy for biomass)
- Sum: sum the pixel values
- Mean: mean of pixel values
- Standard Deviation: how tightly all the values are clustered around the mean.
Other statistical methods to view the data
- Median: median of pixel values (a good representative of the central location of data)
- Min: minimum of pixel values
- Max: maximum of pixel values
- Range: range (max - min) of pixel values
- Minority: the less represented pixel value
- Majority: the most represented pixel value
- Variety: to count the number of distinct pixel values
- Variance: how far a set of numbers is spread out from their average value.
Data Sets
2024
2025
Daniel Cearley
Office 21156 - Building 2100 (First Floor)
(925) 424-1203
dcearley@laspositascollege.edu
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