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2D Analysis Software Clarifies Medical, Weather, Intelligence Images
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
In the 1990s, a Goddard Space Flight Center oceanographer developed a mathematical formula to analyze ocean and atmospheric data, now called the Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT), but it only worked on a one-dimensional signal. Another Goddard scientist later created software that could apply the transform across two dimensions. Arlington, Virginia-based Syneren Technologies Corporation licensed the HHT2 software and developed its own program, which can tease information out of images for medical, defense, and meteorological applications, among countless others.