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What if predicting the flu was as common as forecasting the weather? That’s the concept behind Sickweather, a Baltimore start-up that mines public data from Facebook and Twitter for key words and phrases about symptoms of sickness. The Signal’s Lisa Morgan interviews Sickweather’s Graham Dodge. News link is https://www.wypr.org/podcast/5313-cloudy-chance-influenza
This study is also utilizing our machine learning approach.
Overflight of turf plots and NDVI estimates
Dust Sources are generally point sources. We have devised a new approach to identify them using spectral signatures and machine learning. Continue reading “High Resolution Dust Sources”
Middle school girls participating in the UTD Physics Girls Camp 2012 came to our lab for a test flight of an acrobatic helicopter and demonstration of the thermal imaging.
Portable Gas Sensors Improve Atmospheric Pollution Measurements
The newest member of our airborne fleet nears completion. This plane also has floats that enable it to make water landings as a sea plane. Once tests are complete we hope to install the multiple camera systems for air-borne surveys.
A video of the plane in flight is available here: pc6_footage_640x360