Devolution

I'm a high-powered, hyperspectral remote sensor, yet I'm doing photointerpretation. How embarrassing! To my credit, I'm only going to photointerpret a couple hundred points to use as validation for my high-powered hyperspectral products. However, you could argue that if aerial photography can be used as reference data, then isn't all the high-powered hyperspectral stuff unnecessary? My response: it's context dependent. Which is exactly what I argue in the paper I'm currently working on. Stay tuned to future issues of Remote Sensing of Environment. :) (If I ever finish it, if it gets accepted...)

I had hoped to submit it a month or so ago. I wrote it very quickly: churned it out in a week! And Susan was very positive about it. Until she went on sabbatical, that is. Suddenly she had time to actually think about it and is now making me do lots of extra work :P. Of course, she's right... I already knew about the shortcomings she pointed out, I was just hoping nobody would notice ;D. But they aren't insurmountable, and I think it should turn out to be a good paper.