Showing posts with label The Sorting Problem Earth Observatory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Sorting Problem Earth Observatory. Show all posts

Friday, November 20, 2009

The Sorting Problem Earth Observatory

The Sorting Problem“Normally when a person wants a Landsat scene,” says Dwyer, “they go to a website, they start a geographic search, they restrict it to a certain time of year, and the system returns a bunch of browse images [small versions of the full image]. The user then looks through them all and decides which one is optimal for their purpose.” For a global picture circa 2005, an analyst