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Chargers over Bills: LaDainian is going to shatter the all-time single-season TD record. How close can he come in a single game?
Bears over Vikings: Keep that
Chiefs over Browns: It's nice to know that Larry Johnson doesn't have a problem with either coach.
Jets over Packers: The "final indignities of Favre" keep piling up. The latest: Favre can't win on snowy tundra of Lambeau.
Colts over Titans: But I reeeeeeeally want to pick Vince Young to lead the upset. That would be a week late, though.
Rams over Cardinals: When does the Pete Carroll Era begin?
Pats over Lions: Avert your eyes.
Saints over 49ers: Another 300-yard day for Brees?
Falcons over Redskins: Vick plays better on the road.
Texans over Raiders: Is this the Brady Quinn Bowl?
Dolphins over Jags: Two teams going opposite directions.
Cowboys over Giants: I'm already sick of Romo Mania.
Steelers over Bucs: Not many teams have the honor of being worse than the defending champs.
Broncos over Seahawks: I've been saying it for more than a year: Jay Cutler is for real.
Panthers over Eagles: National TV debacle in Philly.
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Around 1881, Herbert Bryant, a prominent citizen who owned a large fertilizer plant in Alexandria, had a new home built near the northwest corner of North Washington and Queen streets. Designed by architect Benjamin F. Price, the Second Empire style home featuring a mansard roof was noted in a local paper: Of all the residences in the city, none are handsomer than the one recently erected by Captain Herbert Bryant. The building inside is supplied with all the modern improvements. The workmanship on this building reflects credit upon Alexandria mechanics.
Even more than 25 years later, a souvenir publication described it as a splendid modern residence. Bryant died at his home at 306 North Washington St. in 1914, and around 1918, the property became the site for a new parochial school.
The Xaverian Brothers operated the school for boys within St. Marys parish. The first two floors served as classroom space and initially, the brothers lived on the top floor. But as enrollment grew, St. Marys purchased a nearby property to provide living quarters for the brothers. Lawn parties and suppers were held on the grounds to help raise money for the St. Marys school. Student enrollment at the Xaverian School reached 154 in 1930, but the school proved to be too expensive to operate. With church officials citing the impact of the Depression, it closed around 1934.
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Death comes with the territory when you work in conflict zones. On sometimes a daily basis, those of us who have worked in Iraq and Afghanistan in particular have filed stories with headlines like, "Four troops killed during insurgent attack," or "IED kills 10 civilians and wounds six."
It's a blur of numbers and uniforms. When we get word of an incident, we scramble to determine what happened, the nationality of the victims and any other pertinent details. But it's all very anonymous and impersonal, most of the time. It's reporting. It's work.
But this war just became much more personal for the U.S. Embassy and most of the journalists here. That's because word came out that one of the five Americans killed by a suicide bomber in Zabul province on Saturday was 25-year-old Anne Smedinghoff.
She was on a mission to deliver books to an Afghan school. It doesn't get much more harmless than that. It appears she and the others who died in the attack were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Afghan officials say the intended target of the attack was the provincial governor, whose convoy was passing by. He was unharmed by the blast.
Anne was an assistant information officer in the public affairs section of the U.S. Embassy. This was only her second posting in the Foreign Service. Much of her job involved working on and promoting "good news" stories like the Afghan youth orchestra trip to the U.S. funded in part by the State Department, or promoting the Afghan women's national soccer team — both stories that I reported.
As part of the press/public affairs office, she was technically an adversary of sorts. She and her colleagues have information and access that we journalists want, and they rarely give us everything we want.
On top of that, there are many times when we write very critical stories about their colleagues and the work they are doing. It can get combative. But, even if we disagree with each other, we usually maintain professional respect.
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She was assigned to be Secretary of State John Kerry's assistant during his recent visit to Kabul. She made an impression on him.
"She was everything a Foreign Service officer should be: smart, capable, eager to serve, and deeply committed to our country and the difference she was making for the Afghan people," he wrote in a statement.
When troops are sent off to war, some won't make it home. It's a sad reality, but one that troops and their families know going in.
With diplomats, aid workers and even journalists, it's different — people expect they will make it home. They all work in hazardous environments, and they do get killed, too. And, rightly or wrongly, there's more public outcry when someone from that community gets killed compared with a soldier.
More than 2,000 U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan. Anne was the first State Department Foreign Service officer killed here. A USAID FSO was killed last summer.
The names of the three U.S. troops and the DOD civilian killed along with Anne have yet to be released. It's possible I knew one of them, but I did know Anne. She's the first person I've known who has been killed here.
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Anne's family, friends and colleagues are in our hearts. She will be missed by those of us on the other side of the wall here who knew her.
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Whitey Bulger Bio Profiles Boston's Most Notorious Gangster: Reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy, who covered Bulger for years for The Boston Globe, have a new book out about the career criminal. Bulger was wanted for 19 murders when he was captured by the FBI in 2011. He faces trial in June.
How The Food Industry Manipulates Taste Buds With 'Salt Sugar Fat': From food scientists who study the human palate to maximize consumer bliss, to marketing campaigns that target teens to hook them for life on a brand, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Moss' new book goes inside the world of processed, packaged goods.
Historical Vocab: When We Get It Wrong, Does It Matter?: We're living in an age obsessed with authenticity, says linguist Geoff Nunberg, but we often choose to nitpick the wrong details. Whether it's Downton Abbey, Mad Men, Lincoln or Argo, Nunberg argues, a historical novel or screenplay should give us a translation, not a transcription.
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Cholera-dusted prawns, peanuts with a side of pesticide, salmonella-infused chilli powder and E. coli and listeria-flavored cheeses have been stopped en route to supermarket shelves this year.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service rejected almost 350 shipments of food up to October 30 for failing to meet chemical and bacterial standards, including four shipments of cooked prawns from China and Thailand blocked because of the presence of cholera bacteria.
Chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to neurological defects and developmental and autoimmune disorders, was found in peanuts imported from China on six occasions.
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Ethylene chlorohydrin, detected in chilli powder, cinnamon sticks and "garam masala" powder from India in August, can cause nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, headaches, low blood pressure, collapse, shock and coma.
The Australian National University public health and infection expert Martyn Kirk said the impact on people would depend on the amount of the bacteria or chemical consumed. "You need quite a high dose of cholera to get infected," Dr Kirk said.
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French cheeses were not up to standard on 43 occasions.
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A judge has rejected a plea agreement from the former head of a sports memorabilia auction house who admitted to using shill bidders to drive up prices and to altering the most valuable baseball card ever sold.
William Mastro of Mastro Auctions admitted to doctoring the 1909 Honus Wagner cigarette card that was once owned by hockey great Wayne Gretzky. The card sold for $2.8 million in 2007.
According to The Chicago Sun-Times:
"Mastro had denied doctoring the card to fraudulently improve its appearance and value, but according to a government court filing last week, he has now 'candidly' spoken to investigators about how he 'cut the sides of the ... Honus Wagner card despite prior statements to the contrary.' "
Wagner, who played shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates, is considered perhaps the best ever to play the position. In 1909, the American Tobacco Co. issued his likeness as part of a much larger set of baseball cards sold with packs of cigarettes. But Wagner, who didn't want kids to buy cigarettes to get the card, insisted it be withdrawn. Only about 200 were ever issued, and only 57 are known to exist today, according to ESPN.
Mastro, charged with mail fraud, agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a prison term of no more than 30 months, says Bloomberg, quoting an April 2 court filing. If convicted at trial, Mastro faces a possible 20-year sentence.
The Sun-Times says Mastro, 60, also allegedly sold a phony lock of Elvis Presley's hair and a fake 1869 Cincinnati Reds Stockings trophy.
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Rhubarb is in full season right now and I have been enjoying several sweet (some not so sweet) experiments with this wonderful ingredient in my kitchen.
I was not always a rhubarb fan though. I remember getting served some kind of funny looking, greenish, slop that tasted so chemical I was under the impression rhubarb only came in cans!
It was much later that I learned to appreciate the spectacular versatility of rhubarb. I am inquisitive by nature and I am always keen to experiment with fruit and vegetables that I once upon a time did not like. I bring it home to my kitchen and work on recipes – often for several weeks in a row. My two men are great and patient, hardly ever complaining that they've been eating one type of ingredient for weeks. Probably because the dishes are prepared so differently they hardly realize! LOL!
This season I have been indulging in 2 particular types of ingredients. Rhubarb is one of them. The farmers at my Farmer's Market have provided me with several varieties of rhubarb and are educating me about the vegetable.
Did you know that Rhubarb is in actual fact a vegetable? I will be honest – I did not and thanks to the lovely lady at my favorite organic stall at the Farmer's Market, I was informed of its origins.
Rhubarb is a vegetable with an incomparable taste, which makes it a favorite in many pies and desserts. It originated in Asia over 2,000 years ago and was initially cultivated for its medicinal qualities. It was not until the 18th century that rhubarb was actually grown for culinary purposes in Britain and America.
Often rhubarb is commonly mistaken to be a fruit but rhubarb is actually a close relative of garden sorrel, and is therefore a member of the vegetable family.
Rhubarb's crisp sour stalks are rich in vitamin C, dietary fibre and calcium. The leaves of rhubarb should never be eaten as they contain toxic levels of oxalic acid.
Rhubarb is in season from April through to September. It can be grown forced which accounts for its availability early in the year when other crops are scarce. Forced rhubarb, which is grown in the dark, has yellowish leaves and usually appears in January. The field-grown variety replaces it around April and is less tender but often more flavorful.
Nowadays Rhubarb is grown in many areas. Greenhouse production allows it to be available throughout much of the year. Rhubarb is ready to be consumed as soon as it is harvested, and freshly cut stalks will be firm and glossy.
The color of the Rhubarb stalks varies from the commonly associated deep red, through speckled pink, to simply green. The color, which results from the presence of anthocyanins, varies according to both rhubarb variety and production technique. The color is not related to its suitability for cooking. The green-stalked rhubarb is more robust and has a higher yield, and the red-colored stalks are more popular with consumers.
The stalks, which are petioles, may be prepared in a variety of ways. Stewing them will produce a tart sauce that can be eaten with sugar and other stewed fruit or used as filling for pies, tarts, and crumbles. This was the popular way rhubarb was enjoyed, which led to the common term for rhubarb, "pie plant". Rhubarb makes excellent jam and can be easily paired with other fruit like strawberries or apples. It can also be used to make wine and as an ingredient in baked goods.
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When buying rhubarb look for fresh crisp, firm, plump stalks with good color. Peel off any stringy covering before use. Stand the stalks in cold water for an hour or so to refresh them before cooking.
Kept in the fridge, fresh rhubarb will stay in reasonable condition for 1-2 weeks. However to enjoy its full flavor eat within three days of purchase. Raw and cooked rhubarb freeze well.
Preparing rhubarb is easy but not everyone knows what to do with it, if they have never worked with the ingredient before. So here are my tips to help you enjoy this vegetable with an identity crisis. Wash and trim both ends of the stalks. Discard the poisonous green leaves. If the rhubarb is a bit stringy, using a sharp knife, peel off the stringy covering. Rhubarb is very tart and requires considerable sweetening.
Rhubarb is incredibly versatile and has many culinary uses. Try it in cakes and desserts, pastries, jams, pickles, conserves, sauces and, of course, wine.
This is currently my favorite way to enjoy rhubarb in its simplest form. Compote is perfect because you can make large batches and use them in several ways. My rhubarb compote was used as a pastry filler, as a sauce for pancakes, in muffins and of course pure with rich vanilla sauce drizzled over the top.
Hope you enjoy your rhubarb season too!
Updated: You'll find all the different types of rhubarb varieties here.
Printable version of recipe here.
For the Rhubarb Compote
750g rhubarb, cleaned, scraped and cut into larger sized pieces
50-70g + 2 tablespoons sugar
1-2 tablespoons lemon juice
30g cornflour
For the Vanilla Sauce
3 egg yolks
20g sugar
15-20g vanilla sugar
20-30g cornflour (cornstarch)
3/8 liter milk
1 vanilla pod
For the Rhubarb Compote
Place the rhubarb with about 2 tablespoons of sugar in a saucepan. Set aside for approx. 15 minutes until the juices are drawn out. Pour in about 100 ml water and the lemon juice into the sauce pan and bring to a boil. Covered, simmer for 4-5 minutes. In a small cup or bowl mix the cornflour with 6 tablespoons of water to a smooth mixture. Pour into the rhubarb mixture and simmer for a further 3 minutes.
Sprinkle in the 50-70g of sugar. Give it a taste if the compote is still too tart then add another few teaspoons. Set aside to cool completely.
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In a bowl, beat the egg yolks with the cornstarch, sugar and vanilla sugar to a smooth paste. Make sure there are no lumps in the mixture. Whisk in the milk.
Split the vanilla pod lengthways and scrape out the seeds. Add the seeds and pod into the egg-milk mixture.
Heat mixture in a pan over a medium heat until the sauce thickens. Do not allow to boil. Remove the vanilla pod and serve either still warm or chilled.
Fruit served in this way is a treat. Soeren always enjoys a good compote with vanilla sauce. They are also simply perfect for the school lunchboxes or a little treat for us mums in between. Tom loves this compote with vanilla ice cream and often serves himself a little portion a little later in the evenings. On the weekends we enjoy the compote with pancakes or waffles. So you see it really is worthwhile making large batches - because even those do not last too long!
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UFC Lightweight Champion Frankie Edgar checks in with his final blog leading up to his UFC 125 title defense against Gray Maynard
In Las Vegas, fight night is a couple days away and I can't wait to get in there. The whole fight week preparation makes the anticipation build for me. It's such a waiting game and you try to keep a level head and keep focused, and when you get into the cage, it's like 'ah, I can finally let it all out now.' There's nothing that really triggers the switch into fight mode, it's just my will to win that makes me want to compete hard and fight hard.
A lot of people think you have to be angry or hate your opponent to fight hard, but that's not the case for me, and I don't think it is for Gray either. Gray and I come from wrestling backgrounds and we compete. Sometimes we compete against our friends, and that's what it is. It's definitely a fight and you have to come in there expecting to take damage and do damage, but realistically, it's still a competition. You want to bring the attitude of a fight into it just so you have that chip on your shoulder, but there's no animosity for me.
In fact, I kinda go in there doubting myself a little bit because it keeps me on my toes. I always believe in my skills, but I never think I'm gonna have such a strong edge in one area because that might slow me down. I like to think that this guy's a lot better than he may be because it's gonna keep me fast and keep me aware.
So we survived the Blizzard that hit Jersey, got into Vegas, took care of our business with the UFC, and since then it's been smooth sailing. When I'm on site for the fight, I'll train at night, close to the time when I think I'll be fighting. In the mornings I try to run outside and try to get that air and sun in. Friday morning I'll cut the little bit of weight that I have to. There's not a lot, so it's more of just a run through with my team. I'll hit pads with sweatpants on and when I'm done with that, weigh in, and then relax. Saturday morning I'll get in the Octagon, and Saturday night it's go time.
The waiting is definitely the toughest part though. Fight week is fun and relaxing because you're not training as hard and you get to hang out with your teammates and there's a lot of downtime. We're close, we're all buddies, so we cut on each other, watch some good movies, and have fun, so I enjoy it in that sense, but waiting for the fight is the toughest part.
I feel great for Saturday night though and I'm ready to go five hard rounds if necessary. I've been five rounds twice against BJ (Penn), and I've been sparring five rounds for quite a while now, even before training for BJ just because I like doing extra. So I'm pretty accustomed to it, and even though Gray hasn't fought five rounds yet, he comes from a great camp, he has Randy (Couture) in his corner and Randy's fought many championship fights, so I'm sure he's made the adjustments. For me, there really should be no difference between rounds four and three as long as you're preparing in the gym.
Like I wrote in the last blog, I don't really go on the internet that much to see what people are saying, so I don't know whether I'm seen as the underdog or not. If I am, that's not a big deal because I've been dealing with that my whole career. Will that change after beating Gray? I think it will help, but it just seems that's the way it is for me. There are still people out there doubting me, and that's fine because whether I win or lose this fight, I'm still the same fighter and I'm still the same person, so it doesn't matter. It matters more to them than it does to me.
And if I go into my next fight as a favorite, that's gonna be something new for me, but I think I'll just go about training, go about preparing and always keep my opponents on a high pedestal because that will keep me motivated.
But right now, it's all about Saturday night. Nothing else matters to me right now, and when the cage door closes, all I'm thinking is focus, relax, and perform. I believe in everything I did to this point, and let it all hang out.
Thanks for the support, see you at the MGM Grand.
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Bradenton Police arrested Charles Ross on Sunday. A police report says Ross likes to video pranks and is known for harassing and annoying people in Manatee County then putting the footage on YouTube, similar to a "Jackass"-style show.
One of his recent videos - of Ross kissing strangers - has gotten nearly 400,000 views. Police say Ross grabbed people by the back of the pants and pulled them up, hard. Several victims said they were too embarrassed to press charges.
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Have you ever noticed how water can flow through rocks and leave a trace of its passage by covering the surface with a patina, like white stripes? The whole process is quite complex but can roughly be explained by breaking it down into two coupled effects: gravity and chemical reactions. Gravity causes the water to infiltrate through discrete fractures (hard rocks) or pores (sedimentary rocks), until it charges the groundwater supply below to a point where excess water will surface on the face of the rock, like an overflowing glass of water. Chemical reactions, on the other hand, allow water to dissolve carbonates and similar substances present in the rock. Such chemical compounds will start sticking and accumulating on the surface.
White stripes due to discrete fractures in the rocks
at Halibut Point State Park, Cape Ann, MA, United States.
Water Flowing Through Rocks
The phenomena of water flowing through rocks can be witnessed in nature, such as in the Halibut Point State Park in Cape Ann, MA (shown above). These rocks are made of 400+ year-old layers of granite, one of the most common types of rock, named for its granular texture. As you can see in the picture, the flux of water in those rocks is visible on their surface, giving way to streaks of a lighter color on their surface. The free flow of fluids through a fracture, in a block of solid or porous media, is what's called a discrete fracture.
Simulating Discrete Fracture
If you are interested in simulating discrete fractures, you can use COMSOL Multiphysics together with the Subsurface Flow Module. In fact, our Model Gallery features a great Discrete Fracture documented example. The image below to the left shows the geometry used in this model, which consists of two blocks sharing a common interior boundary representing the discrete fracture. To the right you can see the analysis of time-dependent flow in the fractured porous blocks after 1000 seconds.
Geometry of the discrete fracture. | Analysis of time-dependent flow after 1000 s. |
The two blocks are made of porous media, while the shared interior boundary represents a discrete fracture. The Darcy's law physics interface is used to solve both the porous media flow and the fracture flow. The fracture is represented as an interior boundary, meaning Darcy's law is solved on the surface instead of in a volume by adding the Fracture Flow feature to the Darcy's law interface. Doing so avoids creating a very thin domain representing the fracture that would lead to a dense mesh consisting of very small elements. In other words, this is a very efficient way of solving this type of subsurface flow problem.
The isosurfaces in the plot to the right show how pressure is continuous across the fracture, a characteristic of subsurface flows, while arrows indicate the velocity field along the fracture. The fluid is moving from the inlet (right) to the outlet (left) because of an imposed pressure difference.
Further Reading
Now we know that water will surface thanks to discrete fractures in the rock and white stripes will appear because of chemical reactions happening on its external surface.
You will find more details on how to run a discrete fracture simulation yourself in the documentation available in our Model Gallery.
Comments (2)
Dennys Armando Lopez-Falcon
May 27, 2019Thank you for your interesting contribution about modeling fractures in porous media.
I followed the documentation in the Model Gallery but I suspect that I am doing something wrong because there is no response to fracture width (d_f). Have you got any suggestion?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Best regards.
Victoria McGuire
June 29, 2023Hi Dennys, I am currently trying to follow the documentation for this model from the Model Gallery but the .mph file containing this Discrete Fracture seems to be missing from the download options. If there is any possibly you have still this file on hand or know where to retrieve one I would greatly appreciate a response back or a copy that I can download. Apologizes for any inconvenience this brings.


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Flight line 01_06 runs between these coordinates (NAD83, Decimal Degrees):Start: 39.560492, -76.086556 End: 39.630189, -76.149986
Multispectral aerial imagery acquired in 2017 to monitor the distribution and abundance of submerged aquatic vegetation in Chesapeake Bay and coastal bays
The 2017 aerial photography was obtained primarily by Air Photographics (Martinsburg, West Virginia) from multispectral digital imagery. The multispectral imagery was acquired using a ZI DMC-II 230 multispectral (RGB,NIR) digital mapping camera and IMU with a 92 mm focal length, a 5.6 μm pixel size, and a 15552 x 14144 image size. That imagery was acquired at an approximate altitude of 13,200 feet, yielding a ground sample distance (GSD) of approximately 24 cm. The 170 flight lines, which cover 3,937 flight line kilometers, were flown. These lines were designed to include land features necessary to establish control points for accurate mapping, augmenting and checking the IMU data. The flight lines used to obtain the photography were positioned to include all areas known to have SAV, as well as most areas that could potentially have SAV (i.e., all areas where water depths were less than two meters at mean low water). Flight lines were prioritized by sections and flights were timed during the peak growing season of species known to inhabit each area. In addition, specific areas with significant SAV coverage were given priority. Guidelines for acquisition of aerial imagery address tidal stage, plant growth, sun angle, atmospheric transparency, turbidity, wind, sensor operation, and land features. Adherence to the guidelines assured acquisition of imagery under nearly optimal conditions for detection of SAV, thus ensuring accurate photo interpretation. Deviation from any of these guidelines required prior approval by VIMS staff. Quality assurance and calibration procedures were consistently followed. The altimeter was calibrated annually by the Federal Aviation Administration and the aerial camera was calibrated by USGS. Camera settings were selected by automatic exposure control. To minimize image degradation due to sun glint, lines and frames were designed 60% line overlap and 20% sidelap. The scale, altitude, camera settings, and focal length combination was coordinated so that SAV patches of one square meter could be resolved. Ground-level wind speed was monitored hourly. Under normal operating conditions, flights were usually conducted under wind speeds less than 10 mph. Above this speed, wind-generated waves stir bottom sediments, which can easily obscure SAV beds in less than one hour. The pilot used experiential knowledge to determine the acceptable level of turbidity that would allow complete delineation of SAV beds. During optimum flight conditions the pilot was able to distinguish bottom features such as SAV or algae at low tide. Excessively turbid conditions precluded photography. Determination of maximun cloud cover level was based on pilot experience. Records of this parameter were kept in a flight notebook. Every attempt was made to acquire imagery when there was no cloud cover below 13,000 feet. Cloud cover did not exceed 5% of the area covered by the camera frame. A thin haze layer above 13,000 feet was generally acceptable. Experience with the Chesapeake Bay has shown that optimal atmospheric conditions generally occur two to three days following passage of a cold front, when winds have shifted from north-northwest to south and have moderated to less than 10 mph. Within the guidelines for prioritizing and executing the photography, the flights were planned to coincide with these atmospheric conditions when possible. Air Photographics coordinated the processing of all imagery. Digital imagery was delivered on a portable hard drive. Digital multispectral imagery is georectified and orthographically corrected to produce a seamless series of aerial mosaics following the standard operating procedures (SOP). ERDAS IMAGINE Photogrammetry image processing software is used to orthographically correct the individual flight lines using a bundle block solution. Camera lens calibration data is used to define the interior camera model. Control points from USGS DOQQ, National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), MD Dept. of IT, Virginia Base Mapping Program (VBMP), and ESRI Word imagery provide the exterior control, which is enhanced by a large number of image-matching tie points produced automatically by the software when IMU data were not available. The exterior and interior models are combined with a 10-meter resolution digital elevation model (DEM) from the USGS National Elevation Dataset (NED) to produce an orthophoto for each aerial photograph. The orthophotographs are combined using a set of ArcGIS mosaic datasets for each flight line that are mosacked into a single Baywide mosiac dataset that is shared as an ArcGIS image service. Files in the originals folder are the raw geotif imagery with a rough georectification. Files in the orthos folder are in JPEG 2000 format and have been orthorectified. All files are organized by flight line. Filenames follow this format: Section_Line-Frame_MonthDay-Year Ex: 01_10-02_aug23-16.tif
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Orth, Robert J.; Wilcox, David J.; Whiting, Jennifer R.; Kenne, Anna K.; and Smith, Erica R., "Section: 01 Line Frame: 06, 27 August 2017: Aerial Imagery Acquired to Monitor the Distribution and Abundance of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in Chesapeake Bay and Coastal Bays" (2018). Data. William & Mary. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/data/169