Today I had the opportunity to hear three talks on various topics within the field of remote sensing. We got to hear Yue present on stray/scattered light with TIRS and TIRS GOES. He described the effects of the errors within an image and a couple ways to mitigate them, or reduce them at least. He's over in California, and will be presenting the same information at a meeting there. We went up to support Chris, an REU student who we've gotten to know during our lunches in the reading room. His presentation was excellent, he explained everything clearly, and I came away from it understanding his research pretty well. He was taking remote, hyperspectral images of large areas of land using LANDSAT to determine soil moisture content, which has potential applications in drought monitoring and agricultural management.
After the first two talks, we went to the final Tech Talk of the summer, where Rolando Raqueño talked about DIRSIG and its incredible ability to model virtual reality environments with imaging. He also mentioned my Dad, and his lab (GRIT), as they have collected a fair amount of data which has gone into DIRSIG, which was really cool to hear about.
I spent the rest of the day debugging my code in MATLAB, and at the very end of the day, right before I left (and after much messing about with timeout values). I managed to finish all our debugging and we'll have a chance to run the code tomorrow with some proper images instead of our test ones.
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