Archive for September, 2006
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Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Google Earth user function for ENVI
There have been suggestions recently that Google Earth is a “powerful tool” for science. Some disagree. At least one amateur used Google Earth to find an asteroid impact crater.
I just wanted to give context to imagery viewed in ENVI (similar to my Google Maps user function). mg_write_kml produces a KML file and an image suitable […]
3 Comments » - Posted in ENVI, Information design by Michael Galloy
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Chernoff face symbols
Chernoff faces are a way to present a small number of highly multivariate data points to check for outliers. My code allows visualization of eight parameters: head eccentricity, eye size, eye eccentricity, eye spacing, pupil size, eyebrow slant, nose length, mouth size. Along with x and y positions, you can graph ten variables in one […]
