Purdue Terrestrial Observatory

Gilbert L. Rochon, Ph.D., MPH

The focus of the PTO will be to facilitate and engage in state-of-the-science, cutting-edge research and applications, including high performance computing applications, high band width remotely sensed data transfer, parallelizing code for image analysis, data fusion, data mining, knowledge-based classification, signal processing, spatial/temporal geomorphology relationships, and advanced visualization functions, including immersive environments, virtual worlds, and decision-support informed by virtual exploration of the archival remotely sensed data, with on-the-fly change detection, and generation of alternative what-if future scenarios. Calibration and ground truthing will be enabled by in situ imaging spectrometers, radiometers, acoustic signature devices, ground penetrating radar, laboratory analysis of biogenic and anthropogenic surface features and, for specialized applications, ultra wide band analyzers.

http://www.itap.purdue.edu/pto/