February 2010 Archives
Tue Feb 23 09:39:29 EST 2010
Phased Array Doppler Sonar
I'm at the AGU Ocean Sciences meeting in Portland, OR this week. There have been many fascinating talks. One that particularly caught my eye was by Jerry Smith (Scripps), which compared theory with results from a newly developed “phased array doppler sonar”.
Heres an animation of some results from Dr. Smith’s web site.:
Thu Feb 11 12:11:11 EST 2010
Fink Commander Fix for Snow Leopard
After my upgrade to Snow Leopard I was having trouble getting Fink Commander working right. The app would load but not display anything in the table. After some searching I found this link which suggests that I follow the directions, install perl588, and set the path to perl in the Fink Commander preferences to the new version. It works!!!
Wed Feb 10 06:16:41 EST 2010
Aviary
I just stumbled across a fascinating and exiting looking image editing site Aviary (that’s browser based and fee!). Check it out!
Thu Feb 4 09:35:33 EST 2010
Gavia captured in Echo-sounder
I just got back from New Zealand where we ran our Gavia AUV in several lakes and Tasman Bay. Most of our work was related to water chemistry rather than seafloor mapping but it was super fun and very interesting. On one of our adventures in Tasman Bay we drifted over Gavia’s path and caught a glimpse of here on the boat’s echo-sounder. I took a snapshot. Its the blob about 19.5 m down under the cross-hairs.:
