[rescue] Re: SGI Onyx4 - uses ATI graphics chips (sigh)

[Dave McGuire]

On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 07:56 PM, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> "That last statement really stood out when I read it - if "the human 
> eye
> "could not resolve" it, then what is the point of imaging?
>
> i was thinking of such things as ir aerial plant/soil fertility
> photography, where the color of the image carries a lot of
> information about the fields thus surveyed.

   That is very cool.  In a previous life, I did a lot of work in aerial 
spectral analysis and spectral object classification using 
pushbroom-configuration imaging spectrometers.  Sounds like the same 
stuff.  I really, really, really enjoyed that work.

         -Dave

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