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*Lit review on lead classification | *Lit review on lead classification | ||
*Finalized some data visualizations | *Finalized some data visualizations | ||
| + | ===Week 5=== | ||
| + | '''''Monday 6/28''''' | ||
| + | *Attended RCR on presentations | ||
| + | *Worked on slides for presentation on Wednesday | ||
| + | *Read a paper on calculating sea ice thickness from ATL10 freeboard estimates | ||
| + | '''''Tuesday 6/29''''' | ||
| + | *Read a paper on lead classification | ||
| + | *Met with Satish to discuss verification of results | ||
| + | *Practiced for Wednesday presentation | ||
| + | '''''Wednesday 6/30''''' | ||
| + | *Attended research presentations and gave presentation in the morning | ||
| + | *Compared results to OpenAltimetry results | ||
| + | *Read up on CRYOSAT and Sentinel-1 | ||
| + | '''''Thursday 7/1''''' | ||
| + | *Read up on ATL10 Freeboard algorithm | ||
| + | *Looked at alternative machine learning classification techniques for lead detection | ||
| + | '''''Friday 7/2''''' | ||
| + | *Continued researching lead detection | ||
| + | *Set up Marquette VPN so that larger area in arctic circle could be analyzed | ||
| + | *Read literature on features and areas of interest in Arctic Circle | ||
| + | ===Week 6=== | ||
| + | '''''Monday 7/5''''' | ||
| + | *Lit review of CRYOSAT-2 lead detection algorithms | ||
| + | *Review of decision trees | ||
| + | '''''Tuesday 7/6''''' | ||
| + | *Attended training on ethical computing | ||
| + | *Code reorganization so that it will be scalable to multiple HDF5 files | ||
| + | *Meeting with Satish to discuss building a lead classifier | ||
| + | '''''Wednesday 7/7''''' | ||
| + | *Attended training on making research posters | ||
| + | *Started coding neural network for classification | ||
| + | '''''Thursday 7/8''''' | ||
| + | *Encountering difficulties with classification due to photon aggregation | ||
| + | *Reading up on how much granularity is possible | ||
| + | '''''Friday 7/9''''' | ||
| + | *Working on processing ATL07 files | ||
| + | *Exploring different types of classifiers | ||
| + | ===Week 7=== | ||
| + | '''''Monday 7/12''''' | ||
| + | *Fixing data issue with ATL07 | ||
| + | *Familiarizing self with Beaufort sea area | ||
| + | '''''Tuesday 7/13''''' | ||
| + | *Met with Satish to discuss data issue within ATL07 and ATL03 | ||
| + | *Read up on CNN | ||
| + | *Read up on Gaussian Width calculations | ||
| + | '''''Wednesday 7/14''''' | ||
| + | *Recalculating Gaussian Width is not possible | ||
| + | *Attended RCR training in the morning | ||
| + | '''''Thursday 7/15''''' | ||
| + | *Using icepyx API to download Beaufort sea coordinates | ||
| + | '''''Friday 7/16''''' | ||
| + | *Looking at time series analyses as a way to analyze data | ||
| + | *Trying to map out four year time series of Beaufort Sea | ||
| + | ===Week 8=== | ||
| + | '''''Monday 7/19''''' | ||
| + | *Continuing to struggle with icepyx (doesn't accept multipolygon shapefiles?) | ||
| + | *Continuing to struggle with data wrangling in order to directly compare ATL07 and ATL03 | ||
| + | *Trying to fix data issue, not succeeding, is there any way to count photons in segment? | ||
| + | '''''Tuesday 7/20''''' | ||
| + | *Finally imported data set to remote server! | ||
| + | '''''Wednesday 7/22''''' | ||
| + | *Read paper on applying persistent homology as an analytical approach to data | ||
| + | '''''Thursday 7/23''''' | ||
| + | *Kriging interpolation | ||
| + | '''''Friday 7/24''''' | ||
| + | *Reconstructing ATL07 classifier | ||
| + | ===Week 9=== | ||
| + | '''''Monday 7/26''''' | ||
| + | *Still working on Kriging interpolation | ||
| + | *Encountering difficulty in aligning metrics between ATL03 and ATL07 | ||
| + | '''''Tuesday 7/27''''' | ||
| + | *Met with Satish to discuss upcoming plan for the week | ||
| + | *Looked into LSTM for time-series predictions | ||
| + | *Successfully replicated ATL07 classification with 97% accuracy (but at the same granularity as the ATL07 data) | ||
| + | '''''Wednesday 7/28''''' | ||
| + | *Mainly reading LSTM papers | ||
| + | '''''Thursday 7/29''''' | ||
| + | *Returned to Kriging vs learning comparison | ||
| + | '''''Friday 7/30''''' | ||
| + | *Worked on visualizations for final poster | ||
| + | *Am still having problem with Kriging grid!!! WHY? | ||
| + | ===Week 10=== | ||
| + | '''''Monday 8/02''''' | ||
| + | *Working on poster for symposium | ||
| + | *Still trying to get Kriging to work | ||
| + | *Attended RCR in morning | ||
| + | '''''Tuesday 8/03'''''' | ||
| + | *Finished poster, working on presentation slides | ||
| + | *Gave up on Kriging for now, producing grid for BF Sea area | ||
| + | '''''Wednesday 8/04'''''' | ||
| + | *Finished presentation slides, working on manuscript | ||
| + | '''''Thursday 8/05'''''' | ||
| + | *Attended presentation meeting in the morning | ||
| + | *Attended symposium and presented poster | ||
| + | *Worked on manuscript | ||
| + | '''''Friday 8/06'''''' | ||
| + | *Presented project | ||
| + | *Turned in manuscript | ||
| + | *Have plans to make Kriging work for me! | ||
Latest revision as of 19:12, 6 August 2021
Contents
About Me
Hello! I'm Theresa Chen, student at Carleton College, class of '22. I am a double major in environmental studies and computer science.
Work Log
Week 1
Working part-time due to still being in school
Tuesday 6/1
- Attend REU orientation
- Attend mini data science boot camp
Wednesday 6/2
- Continue mini data science boot camp
Thursday 6/3
- Attend Good Research Practices Talk by Dr. Brylow
Week 2
Tuesday 6/8
- Meet with Dr. Puri, discuss overall research goals
- Begin literature review
Wednesday 6/9
- Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training
- Attend REU event on technical writing
Thursday 6/10
- Continue lit review
- Familiarize self with different ICESAT-2 data products
- Watch some tutorials from ICESAT-2 hackweek
Friday 6/11
- Lit review- looking at articles related to areas of interest in the arctic
- Meet with Dr. Puri
- Narrow down interest to ATL03 files, start pre-processing data
Week 3
Monday 6/14
- Continue lit review
- Explore captoolkit, used to process ATL06 open altimetry data
- Try to reduce HDF5 file to only variables selected for project
Tuesday 6/15
- Visualize raw photon height data from selected study area in the arctic
- Experiment with data visualizations
- Review past paper from old REU participant Erin Doyle
- Meet with Dr. Puri, decide to expand variable selection
Wednesday 6/16
- Working on processing HDF5 to csv
- Went to REU Professional Event
- Created REU Wiki pages
Thursday 6/17
- Double checking data sets by visualizing photon heights to see if elevation makes sense
- Obtaining datasets for several areas near the arctic circle
- Beginning machine learning tutorials using "keras" package
Friday 6/18
- Working on creating neural network
- Mostly debugging tensorflow installation
- Experimenting with hyperparameters like epochs and batch size to reduce loss and increase accuracy
Week 4
Monday 6/21
- Predicted results from NN still have very low accuracy, still trying to fix
Tuesday 6/22
- Fixing uneven output types for NN model
- Fixing low accuracy for NN model
- Met with Satish to discuss expectations for the coming week
Wednesday 6/23
- Finally got working results for NN model
- Working to visualize and compare results for height prediction
- Learning how to use geopandas and geoplot
Thursday 6/24
- Debugging geoplot, issues with conda installation
- Working on data visualizations
- Started using cartopy
Friday 6/25
- Lit review on lead classification
- Finalized some data visualizations
Week 5
Monday 6/28
- Attended RCR on presentations
- Worked on slides for presentation on Wednesday
- Read a paper on calculating sea ice thickness from ATL10 freeboard estimates
Tuesday 6/29
- Read a paper on lead classification
- Met with Satish to discuss verification of results
- Practiced for Wednesday presentation
Wednesday 6/30
- Attended research presentations and gave presentation in the morning
- Compared results to OpenAltimetry results
- Read up on CRYOSAT and Sentinel-1
Thursday 7/1
- Read up on ATL10 Freeboard algorithm
- Looked at alternative machine learning classification techniques for lead detection
Friday 7/2
- Continued researching lead detection
- Set up Marquette VPN so that larger area in arctic circle could be analyzed
- Read literature on features and areas of interest in Arctic Circle
Week 6
Monday 7/5
- Lit review of CRYOSAT-2 lead detection algorithms
- Review of decision trees
Tuesday 7/6
- Attended training on ethical computing
- Code reorganization so that it will be scalable to multiple HDF5 files
- Meeting with Satish to discuss building a lead classifier
Wednesday 7/7
- Attended training on making research posters
- Started coding neural network for classification
Thursday 7/8
- Encountering difficulties with classification due to photon aggregation
- Reading up on how much granularity is possible
Friday 7/9
- Working on processing ATL07 files
- Exploring different types of classifiers
Week 7
Monday 7/12
- Fixing data issue with ATL07
- Familiarizing self with Beaufort sea area
Tuesday 7/13
- Met with Satish to discuss data issue within ATL07 and ATL03
- Read up on CNN
- Read up on Gaussian Width calculations
Wednesday 7/14
- Recalculating Gaussian Width is not possible
- Attended RCR training in the morning
Thursday 7/15
- Using icepyx API to download Beaufort sea coordinates
Friday 7/16
- Looking at time series analyses as a way to analyze data
- Trying to map out four year time series of Beaufort Sea
Week 8
Monday 7/19
- Continuing to struggle with icepyx (doesn't accept multipolygon shapefiles?)
- Continuing to struggle with data wrangling in order to directly compare ATL07 and ATL03
- Trying to fix data issue, not succeeding, is there any way to count photons in segment?
Tuesday 7/20
- Finally imported data set to remote server!
Wednesday 7/22
- Read paper on applying persistent homology as an analytical approach to data
Thursday 7/23
- Kriging interpolation
Friday 7/24
- Reconstructing ATL07 classifier
Week 9
Monday 7/26
- Still working on Kriging interpolation
- Encountering difficulty in aligning metrics between ATL03 and ATL07
Tuesday 7/27
- Met with Satish to discuss upcoming plan for the week
- Looked into LSTM for time-series predictions
- Successfully replicated ATL07 classification with 97% accuracy (but at the same granularity as the ATL07 data)
Wednesday 7/28
- Mainly reading LSTM papers
Thursday 7/29
- Returned to Kriging vs learning comparison
Friday 7/30
- Worked on visualizations for final poster
- Am still having problem with Kriging grid!!! WHY?
Week 10
Monday 8/02
- Working on poster for symposium
- Still trying to get Kriging to work
- Attended RCR in morning
Tuesday 8/03'
- Finished poster, working on presentation slides
- Gave up on Kriging for now, producing grid for BF Sea area
Wednesday 8/04'
- Finished presentation slides, working on manuscript
Thursday 8/05'
- Attended presentation meeting in the morning
- Attended symposium and presented poster
- Worked on manuscript
Friday 8/06'
- Presented project
- Turned in manuscript
- Have plans to make Kriging work for me!
