11.04.2004
Well...
There has been a maked silence about the election lately, here and on the BBS. Thoughts?
I was happy that at least there was a decision. I think by and large it was a fair election from the things I have heard, and I am thankful that there is not a lengthy legal battle to "appoint" a winner. I hope that everybody can pull together again and tone down the rhetoric of the last couple of years.
What did you guys think/say/do on election night?
I watched TV until 4:30 am EST, which was only 12:30 here. They kept saying there was going to be a winner, after the next commercial break. I swallowed that one for a little while, but gave up and went to bed. Mostly watched the events from my cube and laptop from school. I heard a bit of Bush's victory speech on the radio on the bus as I rode to school. Heard only that Kerry had conceeded, but not what he said.
I am trying to import landsat imagery from some files I downloaded. Fairly large files, so it is taking a while. One project is to try to accurately measure snow depth and snow water equivalent (how much water is in a column of snow), using passive microwave satellite images. The landsat stuff is to classify land cover types into a few classes (basically lakes and everything else) to try to make the current algorithm more accurate. My other project is to take the MODIS daily snow cover product and remove clouds and track break-up and freeze-up dates on large lakes (Great bear lake, great slave lake) in the canadian arctic. It is somewhat interesting. not as thrilling as i had hoped, but not bad.
There has been a maked silence about the election lately, here and on the BBS. Thoughts?
I was happy that at least there was a decision. I think by and large it was a fair election from the things I have heard, and I am thankful that there is not a lengthy legal battle to "appoint" a winner. I hope that everybody can pull together again and tone down the rhetoric of the last couple of years.
What did you guys think/say/do on election night?
I watched TV until 4:30 am EST, which was only 12:30 here. They kept saying there was going to be a winner, after the next commercial break. I swallowed that one for a little while, but gave up and went to bed. Mostly watched the events from my cube and laptop from school. I heard a bit of Bush's victory speech on the radio on the bus as I rode to school. Heard only that Kerry had conceeded, but not what he said.
I am trying to import landsat imagery from some files I downloaded. Fairly large files, so it is taking a while. One project is to try to accurately measure snow depth and snow water equivalent (how much water is in a column of snow), using passive microwave satellite images. The landsat stuff is to classify land cover types into a few classes (basically lakes and everything else) to try to make the current algorithm more accurate. My other project is to take the MODIS daily snow cover product and remove clouds and track break-up and freeze-up dates on large lakes (Great bear lake, great slave lake) in the canadian arctic. It is somewhat interesting. not as thrilling as i had hoped, but not bad.
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