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- Title
Introducing HYDRA: A Multispectral Data Analysis Toolkit.
- Authors
Rink, Tom; Menzel, W. Paul; Antonelli, Paolo; Whittaker, Tom; Baggett, Kevin; Gumley, Liam; Huang, Allen
- Abstract
As these few examples illustrate, HYDRA offers several tools to interrogate multispectral and hyperspectral remote-sensing data quantitatively and to explore the correlations between radiance measurements and features in the images. Continued development over the next several years is planned in order to incorporate more multispectrai and hyperspectral instrument systems into the HYDRA menu. In addition, several improvements will be added, including 1) improving the user interface; 2) adding the capability to animate sequences in time or wavenumber; 3) introducing a state-saving device (i.e., a persistence mechanism); 4) enhancing collaboration at remote sites through granule sharing; 5) enabling more high-spectral data analysis (i.e., principal component analyses); and 6) providing more interaction between scripting and the application. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has added HYDRA to its Virtual Laboratory for Satellite Training and Data Utilization to enable research with satellite data and to enhance training capabilities. The Virtual Laboratory is designed fo provide the instructors and students with a set of easy-to-use tools for creating and conducting training sessions—HYDRA is now part of this international tool kit. The HYDRA project is an ongoing development effort. Planned future developments include features that will enable remote multiple-site viewing of and interaction with the same dataset; this will enhance use in the Virtual Laboratory and collaborations at remote sites.
- Subjects
REMOTE sensing equipment; DATA analysis; USER interfaces; WORLD Meteorological Organization; IMAGING systems; METEOROLOGICAL satellites
- Publication
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2007, Vol 88, Issue 2, p159
- ISSN
0003-0007
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/BAMS-88-2-159