University of Nebraska Lincoln has all my transcripts and my recommendation letters. I have written my “Letter of Purpose” statement, but have not turned it in until my buddy Troy has a chance to look at it and tell me if I am going the right direction. After that, all I have left is to take the GRE, then it is out of my hands and in the hands of the people of UNL. I am still agnostic about whether I am going to do this, but I expect that if we can work out a way for me to do this does not cost a ton of money and allows me both to go fairly slowly and have a decent quality of life, I will pull the trigger.
Veterans Day is a holiday at my current employer, so I spent the day working on the reincarnation of the GaugeCam project. It will be either a base for my PhD research or a contribution to those who are interested in remote water height measurement in the wild or both. The image below is a screenshot from my phone as it accesses the new software that runs on a Raspberry Pi in the house. The yellow lines show the result of the automatic pixel to world coordinate calibration calculation. There is more to do on it, but the technical part is complete–the rest is just nuts and bolts (saving/loading calibrations from/to disk, associating calibrations with ranges of images to which they apply, adding motion detection to determine if the camera or target has moved, etc.
