The Department of Geography Colloquium Series Presents

Timbo Stillinger, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Earth Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara

This talk will give an overview of why we need better forecasts of water supply that use satellite data, the current limitations of operational cloud masks over snow covered mountainous regions, recent advances in global cloud masking algorithms, and some of our work on superpixels we are incorporating into our workflows for masking clouds, measuring fractional snow cover, and estimating snowmelt. Various approaches to creating superpixels and their feature sets will be explained along with how they can be used throughout the imaging processing workflow for reducing imaging noise, speeding up algorithms, and training machine learning models.  

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