Greetings from Portugal! Matt and I arrived safely yesterday. After a long trip we picked up our truck in Lisbon and drove to our rental house in Alvaiade. The house , shown in the centre of the panorama below, is very nice!
The view from the patio is great:
After settling in nicely yesterday, we started this morning to prepare for the deployment of our instruments. After a short briefing in the operation center, we went to check out the containers in which all the instruments were shipped. Unfortunately, not everything was perfect when we opened the containers: the straps of the trailer had become loose and it moved inside the container, which caused some damage of the trailer lights and also of the lidar enclosure. The lidar itself (and also the other instruments) has no obvious physical damage, which is good. We already brought it to our deployment site:
We found a sheep skull and decided to mark our spot by the skull! The valley looks different now with all the towers and some of the lidars from other groups already installed:
Tomorrow, our goal is to move some of the other instruments and the data system to our site!
-Petra