July 11th

First we had a short morning meeting. Then Emily and I learned a new enhancement process called high pass on ENVI. We focused on the circle and writing in Taiwan, trying to make out what is written inside the circle. I saved many of the images to go back through later. Then I took pigment samples from many of the images including
greens, blue, red, orange and tan. Then, I made graph comparisons between the pigments of different sections. This will hopefully answer some of the questions from Robert/Bob's email.

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  1. UnknownJuly 19, 2017 at 11:33 AM

    :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

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  2. UnknownJuly 19, 2017 at 11:35 AM

    Bob/Robert is a lucky man to have you helping :))))

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