I invented a novel algorithm that can measure shapes in ways traditional geometry, and procrustes analysis, cannot. One of my high school interns is interested in bees so he applied it to bee wings. Attached is a poster. The software is open-source on GitHub (tutorial videos: https://www.tsg-lab.org/lcpc). I’d be happy to advise on adopting this technology. It applies to anything where shape is important. For NASA: microgravity affects on insect and plant morphology.
Poster: "Example Application of the Linearized Compressed Polar Coordinates
(LCPC) Transform to Analyzing Bee Wing Morphology"
Wow that is amazing! Beekeeping is so amazing when you think about how hard bees actually work. My mom is a state registered beekeeper in Texas so working around bees when I was young was always a fun little challenge because we often had the African honey bees. The intersection between bees and aerospace has always been an interest of mine though, I love that we can always learn something new from these little workers.
I remember while I was in my undergraduate learning about the colony of bees that were launched into space on an STS mission, apparently the bees problem solved and learned how to operate in space without having to use their wings. Out of the experiment only a few bees died due to the end of their lifecycle, they constructed new comb, the queen laid new eggs.
Nature is the greatest teacher!!