Hi All,
I am an Australian racing at Lake Gairdner on a Vespa
and I am doing some investigation into using satellite imaging to help with timing of races (i.e. best dates to run) and choosing the best track layout.
What I have been doing is getting the new thermal imaging satellite data from Landsat 8 and then filtering it so it highlights differences in ground temperature. This seems to show quite accurately where good and bad salt is. If looking at the lake over time is also seems to show where wet patches have dried in layers.
It would be good to team up with someone at Bonneville to see if we can do a back scratching exercise. I can generate the data for this years Bonneville (i.e. a series of processed satellite images) and it would be good to get some feedback on if it helps and how best to use them.
Here's one I whipped up today which is a recent Bonneville thermal image. I am gathering those are tracks I can see?
Is there interest in this? Does the above image look like it is telling you something you already new?
