Nice ArcMAP extension allowing for simultaneous comparison of points in Arc and Google Earth. Can be downloaded….search for something like: Arc2Google ArcMAP extension.

Excellent! Making rapid progress on road mapping and validation!! Angelica has done amazing with the Quickbird imagery. Here is a small low resolution subset of our study area.

Finally, the finished river/water mask for a small subset (low res version) around Puerto Maldonado (Peruvian Amazon) in our study area!

3 sites down, 17 to go!

Calibration and installation of our sensors. Unfortunately one of our PAR sensors shorted out, will have to send it back to Apogee and have it replaced when we take them down next week.

Soil gas efflux sampling for Kye (Stanford Post-doc) project linking remote sensing with soil C02 emissions. These samples will be analyzed on a GC (Gas Chromatograph) back at Stanford in the upcoming month.

4 7 ml samples every 20 minutes for 4 cycles.

car full of gear for canopy licoring.

angelica and I heading out for the first load.

stacks of gear, including our climbing equipment and safety gear and hanging chair for long canopy sessions.

Ready to go!

Stack of climbing and LiCORing gear ready to go.

Angelica and Kai leading up georeferencing operations on the ground.

Collecting our 4th curve set!

one failed but interesting approach to classifying images using hierarchical trees.

Multi image stacking that’s been driving me crazy these last weeks. Just completed the first mosaic, 2008, comprised of ~30 images, yes! Running a despeckling program in IDL, hope it looks good.

Here is an example of the core of the despeckler procedure:

I’ve been planning to optimize it to run without the use of for loops, however at the moment this is just not necessary given we only have 3 mosaics to run (but it would go from 30 minutes processing time to probably around 30 seconds!).

Sensors and climbing gear ready to load into the truck. Leaf dryer in LL corner.

Full climbing setup for LiCOR 6400 canopy work up to 100 ft. Sweet! The climbing gear for climber is a stored in a separate larger backpack.

02/01/11

System for canopy LiCOR measurements. Allows for ground based assistants to lift the LiCOR into the canopy, then fine adjustments via the climber.

 

System now including the extension for the cuvette head. This version will be cleaned prior to starting measurements on Wed or Thur. I’ll post a photo of the final cleaned setup before we head out.

01/27/11

Close up of fern fronds used for LiCOR 6400 analyses. These are scanned at 600 dpi and used for area calculation prior to drying and lab analysis.

01/26/11

Week of Jan 24th 2011

Rapid progress on understory LiCOR curve sets.

01/13/2011

Removed the sensors for calibration. Putting them up again early next week.

Angelica carrying a full geo-referencing kit.

LiCOR 6400 on the back, essential gear on the front. Ready to go!

Set up in the woods.

01/10-12/2011–Mon-Wed

LiCORing in the rain. Good progress on understory curves. Fixed a mystery leak, hard to track down, but ultimately solved by tightening a few screws around the cuvette head. A matter of 0.8 ppm C02 variation…

Saturday–01/08/11

Friday 01/07/11

• Job/Post-doc applications.
• Bolivia analysis.
• Sensors up and running (took 3 days to set up).
• Prepping for LiCOR work starting tomorrow through late next week.
• Road delineation in the Peruvian, Bolivian and Brazilian Amazon.

Have identified nearly 5000 km of roads within our study area in the year 1986. This will also be conducted for 2000 and 2008.

Friday 12/17/2010

New upper elevation location install of microclimate sensors.

One tired pup heading home from a long day in the field.

Thursday 12/16/2010

 

 

Success. The preliminary version of the image merging procedure is functional. This will allow for highly controlled stacking of SLC-OFF Landsat imagery (2003+).

Tuesday–12/15/2010

IDL programming with help from D. Fanning. He has a great website for IDL reference available at: http://www.dfanning.com/

Image pointers are a great way to define new variables within FOR loops. Crucial for reading in multiple Landsat images of varying ZYZ dimensions.

Tuesday–12/14/2010

Sweet! Made the cover!

Monday 12/13/2010

heading out to take down our sensors with a bag full of climbing gear.

the most important knot you can learn for tree climbing. the anchor knot.

Finally up and getting to work.