Automated Forest Harvest Detection Using a CubeSat Imagery Timeseries

CubeSats are an exciting new remote sensing technology, but require new approaches to fully leverage the data they produce. The aim of this research was to develop and test such a method with applications to the field of forest management and monitoring. Below you will find a brief introductio...

Quantifying Image Quality of a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) System

The purpose of the experiment was to understand and characterize a Positron Emmission Tomography (PET) imaging system. In this write up, I provide a brief background of PET technology, describe the experimental setup and hardware used, and outline the methods used to characterized the system. ...

Data Cleaning by Interpolation for Optical Satellite Imagery Timeseries

Context: breakpoint detection in satellite imagery timeseries.Breakpoint detection in optical satellite imagery timeseries is a promising area of development, especially with the rise of commercial cubesatimaging plat...

Characterizing the London Penetration Depth in a High Tc Superconductor Across the Phase Transition

This experiment sought to characterize the London penetration depth in Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide (YCBO), a high temperature superconductor. It is known as a “high temperature” superconductor because of its relati...

Empirical Measurement of the Kelvin-Boltzmann Constant from Johnson Noise Power Spectra

I found this experiment to be particularly interesting for its use of inexpensive sound recording equipment to make scientific insights into quantum phenomena. It was also one of the first times I applied concepts of fourier analysis outside of a math class, in an experimental/real world setti...

Building Distributed Mode Loudspeakers

A Distributed Mode Loudspeaker (DML) produces sound from a large panel surface, by driving one or multiple points on the surface, inducing vibrations along its face. The driving is provided by an electro-magnetic coil, called an exciter, connected via speaker wire to an amplifier and signal so...

Simulating Elastic Collisions in O2 Gas

IntroductionThe aim of this project was to simulate elastic collisions in a gas. Then, visualize and analyze the system by the following:1) generating an animation representing the gas particles motion2) analyzing the speed and energy distributions...