February 3, 2015, Tuesday - Seminar Series at the SAFL

Time: 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Location: St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL), 2 3rd Avenue SE

The Minneapolis Parks Foundation Executive Director, Tom Evers, will kick off the 2015 weekly seminar series at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (also known as the Stream Lab).

What do we do with Nearly Unlimited Global Sub-meter Imagery? Applying the NGA Commercial Imagery Program to Polar Science

Over the past 5 years, the Polar Geospatial Center (PGC) has worked to task, archive, and process commercial sub-meter satellite imagery for both poles. We now have near-seamless orthorectified and mosaicked panchromatic imagery for Alaska, Greenland, and Antarctica, with the rest of the Arctic expected in the next 12 months. This same imagery collected in stereo is also being used to produce 2-meter posting digital elevation models for all of Greenland and key areas of Antarctica, Alaska, and the rest of the Arctic.

The challenge now is to apply this resource to the federally funded science community outside the poles. We have learned how to deal with an unexpected series of obstacles including crushing data flow, bizarre formats and an irregular collection schedule. 

This talk will focus on the journey from a single scene to being able to generate 2m posting elevation models in near-real-time almost anywhere on earth.

Upcoming Seminars:

Feb. 10 
Cari Dutcher, Benjamin Mayhugh Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
Tuning Complex Fluids for Environmental and Energy-Saving Applications: Exploring Aerosols, Flocculates, and Spheres

Feb. 17 
Joseph Nichols, Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota 
TBA
 
Feb. 24 
Joseph Magner, Research Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota
Watershed Management in the Eastern Himalayas