Space Image Processing Classes are Go!
Apologies, short notice, but maybe of interest to some of you. It would appear to be an interactive webex session - COOL!
I. Images Are Data, tentatively scheduled for
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 10:30 Pacific (18:30 UTC). In this session you'll learn to look at images differently -- not as snapshots of objects, but as scientific data. We'll cover some very basic image processing techniques (brightness and contrast adjustment and other ways to monkey with an image's histogram), which I'll explain in terms of how they manipulate the underlying data. Even if you're quite comfortable with such basic image adjustments, I encourage you to follow along with this class or at least download and read the slide set, as it'll be important to shift your way of thinking about images to a more quantitative, scientific viewpoint.
II. Getting Started with Space Image Data: Rover and Cassini Raw Images, tentatively scheduled for
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 10:30 Pacific (18:30 UTC). We'll dip into the two most accessible catalogs of images, the "raw images" from the Mars Exploration Rovers and the Cassini orbiter. I'll show you how to locate interesting images and do some basic processing, including but perhaps not limited to: level adjustment; making RGB color images; making 3D anaglyphs; and making animations. Then I'll explain the drawbacks of working with these raw images and why you should want to dig deeper!
I will follow these with classes giving some more detailed background on how space cameras work and introducing the Planetary Data System, and (if people are excited about the idea) I may get in to some special cases of how to access and process data from specific missions, but these won't happen until after the Thanksgiving holiday, which is November 26.
More information - Please follow the link.
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002195/
