Software for sorting satellite images.
NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NASA
in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Independent U.S. satellites generate enough data daily to fill 1,500 copies of
the Encyclopedia Britannica, but satellite data maps often have blank
spots where a satellite wasn't able to record data on a particular
day. Now statisticians Statisticians or people who made notable contributions to the theories of statistics, or related aspects of probability, or machine learning: A to E
- Odd Olai Aalen (1947–)
- Gottfried Achenwall (1719–1772)
- Abraham Manie Adelstein (1916–1992)
at The Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. have developed new
software that can help researchers rapidly process incoming data to
produce complete, detailed maps. In an example given by lead
statistician Noel Cressie, it could take one person 500 years to fill in
the gaps in a map depicting the thickness of the ozone layer ozone layer or ozonosphere, region of the stratosphere containing relatively high concentrations of ozone, located at altitudes of 12–30 mi (19–48 km) above the earth's surface. , while the
same job would take three minutes with the new software. The software
also calculates a measure of map precision.
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