Abigael Status Report (4/12/25)

This week I worked on several things regarding the boat with the team, including the planning for finishing up our project and waterproofing the boat. Additionally, I worked on making the output of the ML algorithm more usable/interpretable for a scientist working on the coral bleaching project. The first change I made was removing the text on the images so that the output uses just color to instead of an additional cluttering label for the images. The second major change I made was to include a text file with written information about the image (what percentage of the image falls under each classification and what the overall classification is). I am still deciding what the final written information would be most valuable so this could change but I am satisfied with where the code is right now. Once the boat is water ready I will be taking a variety of images and classifying those with the camera so that is what I anticipate spending a lot of time on next week. I also worked on the temperature and pH sensor, although I ran into significant hurdles on my end with uploading code from either Arduino cloud or Arduino IDE as both require an initial physical connection with the computer and my computer drivers were not able to detect anything in the ports. As of now I have code that I am confident in but has not been tested, so I will handle that during our group meeting tomorrow with Emma as she is able to upload to her board. The main issue I foresee with this is calibrating the sensor, but I plan to do this using regular water and then adding measured amounts of salt to mimic the ocean water.