August 3rd

We went over two more peoples' abstracts this morning. Since I had finished all of the cubes yesterday, I could focus in the images. Then Emily and I began running PCA and SAM on the new C73 data. Creating single band gray images and false color overlays. That got some interesting results and I made sure to organize all of them so I know where they are and remember how I got them. At the end of the day Emily and I began to look at our presentation again. Focusing on cutting it down and creating the second section.

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