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This thesis has taken over my life. I live it. I sleep it. I breathe it. But at least some of the indices that I create as part of the process are pretty to look at. A Tasseled Cap Transformation of the Landsat 8 OLI scene over my study area in early October last year.

It is a long and painful process. The birth of a Master’s thesis. I’ve devised a reward system. I say to myself: After I’ve read this article, I may go and get my sheepskin slippers to warm up my chilly toes. And after this one, I may go and get a glass of orange juice,Continue reading “#14: The birth of a thesis (March 12th)”

And for the umpteenth time, I got the same frustrating result: an index map that lacked any kind of useful data. Sure, at first glance it looks pretty: Looks kind of like the blood vessels in a lung – not a very far-fetched analogy, considering that the white and the grey is supposed to showContinue reading “#2: The frustration of working with poor data (February 12th)”

It’s already Monday morning and I have been writing since I woke up Sunday noon. I have a dead-line in eight hours, but I’m going to sleep now. Enough is enough. I wonder if I’m ever going to grow out of this drowning behavior. Being completely consumed. There’s a fire in it, which is goodContinue reading “*”

Let me just tell you this: I’ve created a folder in my bookmarks bar where I save any links to Youtube clips or articles that I’ve been recommended to watch or read. And I’ve made sure I really want to watch or read them – just not now. My read! folder now has 37 links. The documentContinue reading “¤”

You know it’s time to call it a day when the land cover classification process has developed into goofing around with the colors for the Landsat bands. It is pretty, though. The Earth.