Today was my last day at work so I had to clean up my work area and wrap things up. At 9 AM I went over to the remote sensing building with Don, Paul, Hank and Ciska to listen to a talk by Dr. Grud?? about using computer classified Landsat data to detect changes in vegetation. He went through a bunch of overheads that were very difficult to read and gave a long discussion on the mathematical process used to calibrate the images and classify them using a vegetation map that was manually interpreted. He was somewhat critical of the Forest Resource Assessment Project’s method of having countries manually interpret images which he felt was too labor intensive and time consuming. It seemed a bit ironic however that his method used a manually interpreted vegetation map to classify his Landsat imagery. He advocated putting a computer in each country for them to use with an image processing program to classify and map their forests and agricultural lands. Unfortunately, at this time, it didn’t seem like most countries would have the ability to support that type of technology. Anyway, Carol will arrive tomorrow, and I was trying to figure out how I would take the train to the airport and bring her back to the hotel. I was looking forward to seeing her again and hoped all goes well for her trip and our upcoming trip to Denmark. Later, I went to dinner to a restaurant near the Colosseum with Don and Ron. Ron thought he knew a good restaurant but when we got there, it was closed. So, we had to find another place. The place we chose ended up being not very good. So, we left disappointed and went to the Hotel Lancelot where Ron and I had a drink and said goodbye.
Wednesday, November 25, 1992
Italy - Denmark Trip - Day 27
Wednesday November 25, 1992 – Rome, Italy
Today was my last day at work so I had to clean up my work area and wrap things up. At 9 AM I went over to the remote sensing building with Don, Paul, Hank and Ciska to listen to a talk by Dr. Grud?? about using computer classified Landsat data to detect changes in vegetation. He went through a bunch of overheads that were very difficult to read and gave a long discussion on the mathematical process used to calibrate the images and classify them using a vegetation map that was manually interpreted. He was somewhat critical of the Forest Resource Assessment Project’s method of having countries manually interpret images which he felt was too labor intensive and time consuming. It seemed a bit ironic however that his method used a manually interpreted vegetation map to classify his Landsat imagery. He advocated putting a computer in each country for them to use with an image processing program to classify and map their forests and agricultural lands. Unfortunately, at this time, it didn’t seem like most countries would have the ability to support that type of technology. Anyway, Carol will arrive tomorrow, and I was trying to figure out how I would take the train to the airport and bring her back to the hotel. I was looking forward to seeing her again and hoped all goes well for her trip and our upcoming trip to Denmark. Later, I went to dinner to a restaurant near the Colosseum with Don and Ron. Ron thought he knew a good restaurant but when we got there, it was closed. So, we had to find another place. The place we chose ended up being not very good. So, we left disappointed and went to the Hotel Lancelot where Ron and I had a drink and said goodbye.
Today was my last day at work so I had to clean up my work area and wrap things up. At 9 AM I went over to the remote sensing building with Don, Paul, Hank and Ciska to listen to a talk by Dr. Grud?? about using computer classified Landsat data to detect changes in vegetation. He went through a bunch of overheads that were very difficult to read and gave a long discussion on the mathematical process used to calibrate the images and classify them using a vegetation map that was manually interpreted. He was somewhat critical of the Forest Resource Assessment Project’s method of having countries manually interpret images which he felt was too labor intensive and time consuming. It seemed a bit ironic however that his method used a manually interpreted vegetation map to classify his Landsat imagery. He advocated putting a computer in each country for them to use with an image processing program to classify and map their forests and agricultural lands. Unfortunately, at this time, it didn’t seem like most countries would have the ability to support that type of technology. Anyway, Carol will arrive tomorrow, and I was trying to figure out how I would take the train to the airport and bring her back to the hotel. I was looking forward to seeing her again and hoped all goes well for her trip and our upcoming trip to Denmark. Later, I went to dinner to a restaurant near the Colosseum with Don and Ron. Ron thought he knew a good restaurant but when we got there, it was closed. So, we had to find another place. The place we chose ended up being not very good. So, we left disappointed and went to the Hotel Lancelot where Ron and I had a drink and said goodbye.
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