Week 2: Slooow

Research:
Finished interferometry processing. Layerstacked and PCA'd results to aid in decisionmaking. Narrowed down area of interest for South African multi-temporal study based on interferometry results. Prepared data & calibration reports for stereo processing of 2003 Reunion aerial photography but ran into software issues. Contacted "tech support".

I am purposely not going into the details of the research I am doing since there is an amount of intellectual capital involved, and I don't want to give everyting away on the internet :-)

Writing:
Didn't write enough. Read the three seminal works that will support Chapter 1, but only wrote few sentences of "Problem statement" section. Fell into the trap of trying to write and edit at the same time instead of just writing. Have to get over this.

Week 1: Small step for man

Research:
Been processing ERS, ALOS and ASAR interferometry this week and creating derivative products. Updated the existing DEM of Réunion with a more up-to-date one to assist in correct geocoding of radar imagery (which necessitated redoing a lot of the inteferometry). Studied the concept of interferometric coherence (still some stuff I don't understand, but getting there).

Writing:
Not much, having only decided yesterday that the time for writing is NOW and not "later". So (embarassingly) belatedly, I have written the first sentence of my PhD today - as in sentence 1, chapter 1. After much deliberation about where one should actually start a PhD (some are of the opinion that chapter one is the last thing you write) I have decided that I need chapter 1 finished and done as soon as possible - if only for my own sanity. And, as always, the "Do it badly, but do it" rule will apply. In fact, I will need to tell myself to "Do it really, really badly, but do it", otherwise I won't ever get anywhere... Damn perfectionism!