BBQ

OK everybody,

Its time again for another BBQ, this Friday. Same prices as usual.

BUT THE TIME HAS CHANGED.

It appears that the reason first years haven been turning up is that they have a timetable clash. So to fix this the timehas changed, we have a presentation at 12.30 and then the BBQ will befired up 1.

The presentation this week will be from Arko Lucieer on the research work that he does. The title of his presentation is "about wavelets, pixels, and patterns" (the abstract can be seen below). The aim of this presentation (and hopefully further presentations) is to be an informal opportunity for students to meet with lectures and see what they actually do. Contrary to popular belief lectures do more than play with MATLAB and mark our assignments!. The presentation will be held in the former engineering tea room.

The society is trying to provide students with a direct link to lecturers and the spatial industry with these BBQs so we would really appreciate your support (by turning up!).

So I hope to see you all there.

Abstract: This study presents a new approach towards combining spatial information from the panchromatic band with spectral information from the multispectral bands of a high-resolution Quickbird image. A wavelettexture measure is computed from the panchromatic band and merged with the multispectral bands to form a new image stack combining spectral andspatial information. This new image is then classified using a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification algorithm. This technique is illustrated with a case study on a vegetation classification of a Quickbird image of subantarctic Macquarie Island.

CheersFrenchy

El Presidente