Three students were accepted into M.S. program

Three students were accepted into M.S. program, Mr. Anparasan Mahalingam, Ms. Jiexia Wu and Mr. Yilun Shao. I'm excited of meeting them soon.

a paper accepted for Geocarto International

Xiaodong Zhang, Hojin Kim, Clinton Streeter, David Claypool, Ramesh Sivanpillai, and Santhosh Seelan, Near Real-Time High Resolution Airborne Camera for Precision Agriculture, was accepted for publication in Geocarto International.

buoy in Devils Lake

We will deploy a buoy in Devils Lake to monitor water quality. Haven't decided where to put, but Stump Lake sounds like a good location given recent appeals for Tolna coulee outlet. The water in Stump Lake is very saline, with values significantly higher than the surrounding water bodies.

a paper submitted to Soil Science Society of Americ Journal

'Estimating surface soil moisture in the Red River Valley of the North Basin using Landsat 5 TM data' by Santosh Rijal, Xiaodong Zhang and Xinhua Jia was submitted to Soil Science Society of America Journal for review.

a paper submitted to JGR-Ocean

"The optical volume scattering function in a surf zone inverted to derive sediment and bubble particle subpopulations" by Michael Twardowski, Xiaodong Zhang , Svein Vagle , James Sullivan , Scott Freeman , Helen Czerski , Yu You , Lei Bi , and George Kattawar was submitted to JGR for review.

Realign SLS20 after storm

A severe storm on May 30 blew the SLS20 receiver down to ground. Realigned the SLS20 on Jun 1. It went well, except initially the signal lever were too strong. However, the automatic background calibration cannot be used - the outputs would be zeros. Also checked the batteries.