Multimedia Team
Spring Semester 2014
Elizabeth City State University

Keywords:
GOES
PHP
TeraScan
ImageMagick
Macintosh OSX
MySQL
Remote Sensing

Mentor: Jeff Wood

Abstract:

The Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research (CERSER) on the campus of Elizabeth City State University is currently tasked with the responsibility of receiving remotely sensed data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES). This data is collected by SeaSpace TeraScan systems installed in the CERSER labs in Dixon-Patterson Hall.
In 2005, the processing system underwent a major update due to a migration to a new operating system. A minor update was needed at this time to deal with a second operating system migration and display of the processed images on the CERSER web site. Since then, a second transfer to a new server was made in 2013. The cataloguing system went down at this time and was not repaired due to technical issues with the TeraScan system. The 2014 team corrected issues within the current server directory system and updated the data script to process images from the GOES-13 satellite received by the TeraScan system. Software and languages utilized for this task included ImageMagick, PHP, HTML, Dreamweaver, phpMyAdmin, and MySQL.
Along with this operating system update, a major script development was needed on the TeraScan processing equipment due to an upgrade in hardware. The ground station upgrades included a 3.7m X/L band, a 3.6m C band, and a 5.0m L band dishes, along with accompanying computing hardware.
This project implemented new script on the TeraScan and CERSER servers.  This new script processes both infrared and visible light images received from the GOES-13 satellite into the Tagged Image File (TIFF) Format.

Anayzle of Traditional Herb on Brine Shrimp
June 2013
Elizabeth City State University

Keywords:
            Brine Shrimp
            Refluxation
            Dilution

Mentors:
            Mrs. Shante Armwood Outlaw

Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to test the behavior patterns of Brine Shrimp based on the extracts of Thyme and Rosemary mixed in their water. The hypothesis was Rosemary would affect the brine shrimp’s behavior, specifically movement more than thyme; however, based on this study the hypothesis was incorrect.  The processes used in this experiment were Refluxation and Dilution.