NASA is planning a hyperspectral space mission, Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) which is founded on findings of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) 2017 Decadal Survey titled Thriving on Our Changing Planet: A Decadal Strategy for Earth Observations from Space. http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DEPS/ESAS2017/index.htm The decadal survey identified several ‘Very Important’ priorities, which stand […]
Author: Bradley Evans
Seeing floods through the trees
Dr Leo Lymburner has published a new article in Hydrological Processes (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.15174) in which he uses adaptive shortwave infrared (SWIR) thresholding to map water inundation (i.e. flooding!) under wooded wetlands. This is a very exciting advance for understanding the extent of flood waters in Australia, especially as we have been experiencing more extreme wet weather […]
OpenHSI ~ How it all began…
Firstly, if you don’t know what OpenHSI is, then I suggest you go and read it’s very excellent github site/pages: https://openhsi.github.io/ The ‘story’ is I was a chief investigator in the ARC Training Centre Cubesats, UAV’s and their applications, see: https://www.cuava.com.au/ I had a number of PhD students at the School of Physics at The […]