SPIE Europe Remote Sensing (Cardiff) Debrief

Posted by matt
on Wednesday, September 17

Well, I’m now back from UWIC, in Cardiff, so I thought I’d write down my thoughts of what’s currently happening in the world of image processing for remote sensing.

First of all though, an aside. The venue totally sucked. It was hard to get to, and was in the scummy outskirts of what’s an otherwise really pretty city. I hope they didn’t put anyone off what’s an otherwise really beautiful country!

Anyway, now that the rant is done with, I found the actual conference quite interesting, especially since there was more image processing content that at IGARSS 2008. The conference chair, Lorenzo Bruzzone gave an interesting introduction, which summed up how the content was distributed.

I made a quick pie chart to illustrate:

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I’m pretty sure I’m in that teeny slice! He also gave a quick breakdown of the number of abstract submitted (63), along with how many oral presentations there were (31, minus a few who weren’t there), and how many posters (11).

I’ve put my slides online at Slideshare so if you’re so inclined you can have a look (no audio).

The exhibition didn’t have a lot for those of us who weren’t looking to buy very high resolution hyperspectral imagers, and the like, but it was still interesting.

Overall, it was worth going, but it was hard to get to (even from Bath), using public transport, and the location left a lot to be desired.

Paper: Segmentation and Tracking of Ionospheric Storm Enhancements

Posted by matt
on Monday, August 25

I’ve just submitted this paper for the SPIE Europe Remote Sensing Conference due to be help in Cardiff on 16th September, 2008.

It can be posted online provided I display the following notice:

Copyright 2008 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. This paper was (will be) published in Proceedings SPIE Europe Remote Sensing 2008 and is made available as an electronic reprint (preprint) with permission of SPIE. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic or multiple reproduction, distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.

You can find the paper online at: Segmentation and tracking of ionospheric storm enhancements M. P. Foster and A. N. Evans ~1 MiB

IGARSS Buzzwords

Posted by matt
on Wednesday, July 16

It’s probably impossible to go to a conference without picking up some kind of idea of the current trends in the areas being discussed. IGARSS 2008 was certainly no exception. Here’s a list of what I think were probably the most trendy techniques in remote sensing. You can probably make a list like this just by graphing the frequency of word use:

And trendy instrument types:

So there you have it… the must use remote sensing techniques for 2008! I’m sure I’ve missed some though.

Code Updates and I'm Off To Boston

Posted by matt
on Sunday, July 06

I’ve just added a new repository to GitHub, called octave-scattered-image, into which I’ve started cleaning up, and pushing my Octave functions for processing scattered image data. Have a look, and feel free to contribute. My current plan is to distribute it as an octave package, but that’s currently untested.

Also, in other news, I’m off to Boston this week, for IGARSS 2008, the first conference of my PhD. The only disadvantage of this jaunt, is that I have to present a paper. I’ll put the sides up when I get back, provided I wasn’t laughed/heckled off the stage! Wish me luck!