Daliedmarie Delgado Maisonet

Project: 

The presence of ice deposits on the Moon is key for NASA’s future human-based solar system exploration, but little is currently known about the ice volume and distribution. I will be using a terrestrial lunar analog in the ESRP to evaluate morphometric relationships that arise from progressive sediment cover burying various lava flow types, and how that evolving bulk roughness influences self-shadowing. UAS equipped with LiDAR will collect high-resolution (~1cm/pixel) elevation data, visible wavelength imagery, and thermal data from ESRP lava flows. Methods like rugosity, root-mean-square height, slope, and insolation will be used to calculate terrain roughness, shadowing, and reservoir volumes for potential Ice Stability Regions (ISR). The goal of this work is to generate high-resolution digital elevation models (DEM) from aerial imagery. 

 Goals: 

• Complete a Master's degree

• Improve scientific communication skills (written, presentations, networking)

• Improve fieldwork, lab, and coding skills

• Develop leadership skills

• Improve teaching skills

For 7/19:

• Do ARI map in regular Arc

  • plot insolation vs thermal measurement on per-pixel basis. What is the relationship? 

  • After you have the TI thing sorted out: Export per-pixel values of insolation, thermal inertia, and roughness. Plot them as XY scatterplots (https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/imagery/image-scatter-plot.htm) - rasters only have one band

    • Write interpretation 

• IDEAS maps: send as printable atlas to SKN (3 sets)

• Add section numbering system to thesis draft sections

• Review thesis formatting requirements and start following them now

• If time: work on expanding Ch2

• Fix fall schedule

For 7/11:

• Implement topography algorithm to create ARI map (Finish by Monday COB)

  • plot insolation vs thermal measurement on per-pixel basis. What is the relationship? 

  • After you have the TI thing sorted out: Export per-pixel values of insolation, thermal inertia, and roughness. Plot them as XY scatterplots (https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/imagery/image-scatter-plot.htm) - rasters only have one band

    • Write interpretation 

• Finish updating IDEAS maps with alphanumeric values (Finish by Monday COB)

• Update Ch2 (moving stuff around, adding list for updating directly to document)

For 7/5: 

• For Ciazela et al.: go through the math and write out a plan to adopt it in Arc (workflow or code)

  • implement to create ATI map

• Send SKN day flight insolation summative from dawn to flight; compare with snapshot insolation calculated at time of flight  uploaded in shared drive

• plot insolation vs thermal measurement on per-pixel basis. What is the relationship? 

• After you have the TI thing sorted out: Export per-pixel values of insolation, thermal inertia, and roughness. Plot them as XY scatterplots (https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/imagery/image-scatter-plot.htm) - rasters only have one band

  • Write interpretation 

• Finish first draft of Ch1

• Ch2: start a list of intended revisions/additions

• Update IDEAS maps with alphanumeric values - all uploaded except for COTM because I messed up

For 6/20:

• Read/summarize thermal inertia papers for Mars and Earth

  • work on adapting their approach for Earth -or- keep searching

• Day flight insolation: summative from dawn until flight

• plot insolation vs thermal measurement on per-pixel basis. What is the relationship?

• After you have the TI thing sorted out: Export per-pixel values of insolation, thermal inertia, and roughness. Plot them as XY scatterplots (https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/imagery/image-scatter-plot.htm) - rasters only have one band

  • Write interpretation 

• Finish carving prospectus up into thesis chapters

For 6/6:

• Reply to Erika

• Finish N COTM inset-style guide

• Finish slope maps

• Check equations in Scheidt et al. (2010)

  • use for TI calc

  • If still an insolation echo, look for papers that adapt Scheidt method for variable slope/aspect

• Finish raster images: consider the color ramps and adjusting as needed to avoid swamping the signal on a few extreme pixel values: try using percentile symbology

• Make an insolation map for the same time of day as the daytime thermal flight

  • plot insolation vs thermal measurement on per-pixel basis. What is the relationship?

• After you have the TI thing sorted out: Export per-pixel values of insolation, thermal inertia, and roughness. Plot them as XY scatterplots (https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/imagery/image-scatter-plot.htm) - rasters only have one band

  • Write interpretation 

For 5/30:

• Finish: each image set, include inset-style guide - in process, doing slope map and waiting for feedback

• Email Brent/Erika/Donna for image feedback

• Redo thermal inertia calc to determine whether process was correct before

  • if process seems fine, check insolation and daytime thermal image -- appears to be an insolation time-of-day artifact

• Raster images: consider the color ramps and adjusting as needed to avoid swamping the signal on a few extreme pixel values

• start with visual inspection of similar/different patterns

  • Does the insolation map used make a big difference?

• Export per-pixel values of insolation, thermal inertia, and roughness. Plot them as XY scatterplots (https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/imagery/image-scatter-plot.htm) - rasters only have one band

  • Write interpretation 

• Create a shared Drive with SKN for the thesis document

  • Make a subfolder for each chapter

  • put in copies of prospectus, relevant figures

  • Start an outline/draft in each chapter folder

For 5/22:

• Send close/med/wide view imagery sets to Erika and Brent, hopefully via Erika's OneDrive folder

  • For each set, include inset-style guide - in process

• Add letters/numbers to grids -- make sure that lines keep their same names between views - in process 

• Put thermal inertia map, insolation map, and roughness map together as layers within GIS

  • start with visual inspection of similar/different patterns

    • Does the insolation map used make a big difference?

  • Export per-pixel values of insolation, thermal inertia, and roughness. Plot them as XY scatterplots - did something in arcpro, not sure if it's correct

    • Write interpretation - started it with the visual comparison; the graphs interpretation needs to be added

• Lunar thermal model: increase number of time steps (decrease duration of step)

  • for full sun: depth to freezing? (what is freezing/sublimating temp for water on moon?) - Sublimation rate for ice on the moon (Andreas, 2007), https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/ice/ice_moon.html

  • For 75%, 50%, 25%, 1%?

  • Write summary/interpretation

For 5/9:

• Finish map gridlines

• Check on bottom (deep) temperature used in thermal code (lower boundary?) and how the rock and regolith are handled

• Play with lunar thermal model to get stable output

  • for full sun: depth to freezing? (what is freezing/sublimating temp for water on moon?)

  • For 75%, 50%, 25%, 1%?

• Make thermal inertia map using the day/night thermal images

• <Hold: finish thermal inertia map questions below>

For 5/2:

• Finish prospectus final draft

• Maps (key thing: grids MUST stay consistent across zooms; Priority)

  • Bear Trap: make much wider view option to see lava flow context

  • COTM Caves: make a zoomed in version on the main set of caves; check Weng et al. for other cave coordinates; add maps for Needles, Last Chance, etc.

  • Cerro Grande: make series of zoomed-in maps; suggest targets of high interest

  • Grand View: zoom out

  • HHA: zoom in

  • The Breaks: zoom in on E-W chain and N-S chain of craters

  • N Robbers: zoom in (series)

  • Split: Zoom in and out

  • Northern COTM: make series

• Remove vegetation, fill holes, and re-run roughness (3x3 and 7x7)

• Check on bottom (deep) temperature used in thermal code (lower boundary?) and how the rock and regolith are handled

• Play with lunar thermal model to get stable output

  • for full sun: depth to freezing? (what is freezing/sublimating temp for water on moon?)

  • For 75%, 50%, 25%, 1%?

• Make thermal inertia map using the day/night thermal images (did something, not sure if it's right)

• <Hold: finish thermal inertia map questions below>

For 4/25:

• Geostats final project presentation and MATLAB project

• 6603 prospectus presentation

• Work on prospectus revisions

• Export map copies as pdfs and upload to Floe (server)

  • Make zoomed sections, too (Mud Lake and N COTM splits, in particular) - Mud Lake is done

• Remove vegetation, fill holes, and re-run roughness (3x3 and 7x7)

• Check on bottom (deep) temperature used in thermal code (lower boundary?) and how the rock and regolith are handled

• Play with lunar thermal model to get stable output

  • for full sun: depth to freezing? (what is freezing temp for water on moon?)

  • For 75%, 50%, 25%, 1%?

• Make thermal inertia map using the day/night thermal images

• <Hold: finish thermal inertia map questions below>

For 4/18:

• Clip NAIP images, overlay with 50 x 50 m grid, and upload to server by Monday morning

• Combine caves imagery/info into a single file; email a copy to Brent

• Roughness via 3x3 and 7x7 

  • check on whether veg was removed, whether holes were filled

  • convert to multi-color ramp

• Run thermal code (single point)

• Make thermal inertia map using the day/night thermal images 

• Put thermal inertia map, insolation map, and roughness map together as layers within GIS

  • start with visual inspection of similar/different patterns

    • Does the insolation map used make a big difference?

  • Export per-pixel values of insolation, thermal inertia, and roughness. Plot them as XY scatterplots

• <SKN: feedback on prospectus>

For 4/11:

• Combine/trim NAIP images to target features of interest - in process

• Finish last documentation for caves imagery

• Roughness rasters; compile outputs into a ppt

• replace all instances of cmd_inputs

  • run thermal code

• Add grids to NAIP images (50 x 50 m - needs to be checked) - in process

• Prospectus draft!

For 4/4:

• Combine/trim NAIP images to target features of interest

• Add documentation for caves imagery

• Roughness rasters; compile outputs into a ppt

• run thermal code

• Add grids to NAIP images (50 x 50 m - needs to be checked)

For 3/28:

• Check remaining NAIP groups

• See if less hazy coverage in another year

• Clean up NAIP folders

  • in each area, add an explanation file that includes an outline of where the NAIP images cover (use target polygons) and citation information

• Keep running roughness rasters

For 3/14:

• Finish revising poster and give awesomesauce presentation

• continue to download and organize NAIP imagery for field areas (floe) 

• Calculate roughness rasters

• Update python code for inputs

• Run thermal code

• Meet with CoSE IT for compiler installation (schedule visit this week for next week)

For 3/7:

• Why those scales (0.1, 0.5, 1, and 2 m)?

• Revise Methods section

• Calculate roughness rasters

• Contact geohelp@isu.edu for compiler fix (fortran90 for RMS and AreaRatio)  - they don't know a lot of fortran

• Run thermal code 

• Work with Brooks to install rugosity calculator (Brooks is available to do it today-Thursday)

• download and organize NAIP imagery for field areas (floe) - working on it

• Set up VPN

For 2/29:

• Get rugosity tool installed (talk to Donna/Brooks) - talked with Donna and she told me Brooks can get it installed by next week

  • calculate roughness rasters

• Get help from a PC user on fixing the matplotlib installation/path/whatever (working with Kyleigh on this; matplotlib is installed but now is giving me permission error)

• Run thermal code

  • After running code, return to roughness and insolation vs TI correlation

• Methods section to SKN by 8 pm Saturday (don't forget to include thermal stuff)

For 2/22:

• Calculate roughness rasters (try using rugosity tool in Arc; will need to install)

• Ask Kyleigh about how she installed her compiler(s)

• Use Tyler's thesis as a guide to reading the TI code; add comments to the code (almost done)

  • depending on how this goes, try running the code

    • After running code, return to roughness and insolation vs TI correlation

• Write and submit abstract for ISU Research Symposium (due 2/21)

For 2/15:

• Put insolation rasters on the same color ramp

• Extend cumulative to 24 hours and put on same color ramp

• Re-load roughness rasters

• Use Tyler's thesis as a guide to reading the TI code; add comments to the code

  • depending on how this goes, try running the code

    • After running code, return to roughness and insolation vs TI correlation

• Add content to TI paper summary

• Update Background, email SKN when re-uploaded

For 2/8:

• Take a screengrab of the insolation error message

• put instantaneous insolation images into a shared Google folder

• run cumulative insolation examples and add to folder

• Calculate thermal inertia (TI) of HHA dataset

• organize roughness rasters alongside thermal inertia and insolation rasters

• Correlate roughness - TI and insolation - TI

• Read/summarize a TI or other temperature modeling paper cited in Paladino Ch 5

For 2/1:

• Re-run insolation using the newly updated tool

• Identify the contribution of local lava roughness to thermal inertia or insolation in the HHA dataset

• Revise methodology plan to describe how you could use a 1D heat model like from Paladino to estimate regolith thickness. (Assume flat lava surface and a clean/dry regolith.) (Concentrate on Paladino)

For 1/25:

• Keep going with insolation maps (add the summation outputs)

• Put together a methodology plan (bullet points is fine) to identify the contribution of local lava roughness to thermal inertia or insolation in the HHA dataset

• Put together a methodology plan to describe how you could use a 1D heat model like from Paladino to estimate regolith thickness. (Assume flat lava surface and a clean/dry regolith.)

• Chat with Kyleigh

• Do first draft of problem statement

For 1/18:

• Revise Paladino summary to focus on what did(not) work and why

• Revisit Karki thesis and make a list of questions

• Do HHA insolation maps for 10 am, 2 pm, and 8 pm on July 1 (are you getting an instantaneous output or summation output?)

• Read/summarize lunar PSR paper

For 12/18 (zoom):

•  Read/summarize Paladino dissertation chapter about lava tubes and thermal inertia

• Meet with Kyleigh

• Calculate time-specific insolation on HHA data

• Read/summarize Karki thesis

For 12/5:

•  Read/summarize Paladino dissertation chapter about lava tubes and thermal inertia

• Meet with Kyleigh

• Calculate time-specific insolation on HHA data

• Read/summarize Karki thesis

For 11/28:

• Read/summarize Lopes-Gautier

• Try to identify source of plot error

• review proposal

• Try to meet with Kyleigh about what she's been working on

For 11/7 (email update):

• Focus on UAS stuff

• Scan book (send to SKN) and return it to library (if time, start reading)

• Plot U vs MgO and U vs SiO2; look to see if anything else is worth plotting (concentrate on trace)

For 10/31:

• ILL request for Lopes-Gautier, R. M. (2022). Extraterrestrial lava flows. Active Lavas, 107-144.

• Read/summarize Cao and Cai (2018)

• Review geochem maps: label key features, check scale bar, reduce number of breaks in scale

For 10/24:

• Read/summarize Theilig and Greeley (1986)

• With Geochem file: pick 3-4 elements and make a heat map of their distribution (ignore actual contacts, etc., and just look for major trends)

For 10/17:

• Read/summarize Magma Composition chapter in Encyc. of Volc.

• Read/summarize Greeley (1982)

• Revise planetary section of Hughes summary

For 10/10:

• Read/summarize Magma Composition chapter in Encyc. of Volc.

• Read/summarize Hughes et al. (2020)

• (for next week's readings: Greeley (1982)?)

• Study for Volc midterm

For 10/3:

• Read/summarize Xu et al. (2020), Warren (1985)

• Snag gear for field trip

For 9/26 (skipping Seminar week):

• Look for paper on lunar highlands

• Condense last week's summaries into <300 words each

For 9/12:

• Read/Summarize: Spudis (2000) and Kilburn (2000) (see big book)

• More social things

• Email Kyleigh to schedule time to talk about existing datasets; compare to the proposed flight polygons

For 9/5:

• Read/Summarize: Cai and Fa (2020), Neish et al. (2017); add text about project relevance

• Do another social thing... in addition to the department cookout

• Join IDEAS telecon

For 8/29:

• Populate upper part of website (ex. photos, simple project summary, mid- to long-term goals, etc.)

• Read IDEAS proposal, write ~1 paragraph summary (include any questions, critiques, etc.)

• Read Hester's thesis and write summary

• Do something fun/social unrelated to Geology

• {SKN: bring bike to campus; send Hester's thesis and proposal}