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A new episode of the Our Alien Earth series from NASA was released! It includes planetary analog field research that we did in Hawaii using LiDAR, and a UV lighting system I made, from 2022. See the full episode at: https://plus.nasa.gov/video/our-alien-earth-the-lava-tubes-of-mauna-loa-hawaii/

Introduction The planetary stereophotogrammetry and high-resolution surface modeling work I do requires compute resources that span traditional workstation, server, and mobile platforms. Large institutional teams can use, or provide access to, shared clusters or centralized HPC environments. Postdoctoral scientists, graduate students, and small-team investigators often have to assemble and optimize their own compute workflows in … Read more

I’ve been making trips to do fieldwork for RISE projects at Kilbourne Hole since the summer of 2017. My contribution has been to provide high resolution topography data to the team using stereophotogrammetry or structure from motion (SfM) methods. Although you can collected more direct measurements of the terrain using LiDAR, I use a methodology … Read more

It was amazing to see everyone in person again this year at LPSC 2023. It was the first time I had been to a conference in person since the pandemic. Even though people wore masks and everything appeared to be relatively safe, still a number of people came down with a COVID infection. (To my … Read more

My main function: analyze geospatial data on the computer. The data show images looking down at Earth and Mars and are interesting to look at: lava flows, sand dunes, river channels, mountains. These are valuable to science, but the patterns and abstractness have artistic value. Many people recognize this and celebrate this by contributing to … Read more