MODIS Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) Colour Pallet for ArcGIS/ArcMap

I’ve made a little colour pallet for ArcGIS for the MODIS MOD13Q1 EVI data (16 Day, 250m Resolution Enhanced Vegetation Index).

This package includes the 10 individual colours for the main points, 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 and 1.0 and the colour gradient.

Compared to the legend given by the C5 User guide:

I also included one of my layer (.lyr) files that can be used as a style reference to get EVI to present nicely.

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Enjoy, Skipper

Next project: Drone Mk1

Now I’ve finished my hydrophone.. I’m moving onto my next project.. Building a UAV. This is going to be part of my dissertation, hopefully, so I probably can’t go into too much detail or it’ll count as plagiarising.. myself…

This is part 1… I’ve ordered all the bits, but as of yet, only the controller has arrived. For the controller I’ve got the Spektrum DX6i (2.4Ghz) transmitter and receiver that begins with AR6… something something…

Using my Arduino as a power source (It’ll convert the input from a 9V battery to a nice and stable 5v power supply that the receiver needs.) I managed to bind the receiver to the transmitter, so they now talk to each other.

I got the Arduino starter kit, with a load of cool little bits, including a servo, so I hooked the servo up to the throttle output of the receiver, and managed to get it to turn through about 60 degrees using the throttle input on the transmitter, very cool I thought!

When the rest of the parcel arrives… whenever that is… I’ll be able to hook up the transmitter to the flight control board of the drone, and hopefully be able to control the drone with the DX6i. This will be the basic control, there is no GPS on the flight control board, so there will be no return home, or hold position, but hopefully I’ll find a decent one for not too expensive soon!

Anyway, fingers crossed!

-Skipper out

Agricultural Simulator 2011: Animals and Breeding

This is what I set out to write.. then I got carried away and did a review…
So, I’ve been wasting time, procrastinating, conducting serious research, playing Agricultural Simulator 2011 to find out how to become rich from the animal breeding aspect of the game. Buying low and selling high didn't really work, till I found out that there is slightly more to it than that.
Let me explain… Each animal has a maximum age, when it reaches this age, the price is greatest. If you sell it before this age, the price will be less. Animals will breed over time and make more of themselves (Even bulls… dunno how that works…). If you have too many in a single pen their health will go down from Excellent to Crowded or Catastrophic and then they’ll start to die off.
Each animal must be fed, they all accept Corn, so that's usually the best product to buy to feed them.
The stables can be upgraded to have auto cleaning, and feeding, which is recommended, or you’ll use your entire day up just cleaning animals out (Just like in real life!).
If you’ve done all this, you’ll be wondering which animals to get.. well, let me help you out!
Each animal has a maximum age, these are measured in days from the day you buy it (So the day you buy it is Day/Age 1).

These are the maximum days each animal will grow to. Chickens and Rabbits have the fastest growing time.
Once the animal gets to its max age, it won’t get older, or die of old age, but you’re wasting resources if you keep them longer. (These graphs are all for the buying the maximum amount for each stall in the stables)

When you sell your animal at the max age, you’ll get a profit (As long as you don’t choose a stupid one like pigs, the only profit you get is from reproduction).  The larger species cost more, and you get a greater profit selling them. The total profit is not hugely helpful to be honest. Rabbits have a low overall profit per cycle, but they cycle every 3 days, so profit/day is a better graph to see…

Rabbits turn one of the greatest profits per day, since they only take 3 days to mature, and you can get 4 lots into the same time it takes the deer to mature. The deer is still a greater profit/day, so it is actually worth farming deer for the longer 12 days as you still get a greater overall profit per day, and profit in general…
Conclusion: Buy deer…. Improve every stall to the maximum, with all the upgrades, fill them with deer and pump corn into them, within a few weeks you’ll be crazy rich.
You can skip days ingame, but you have to wait a few minutes every day before skipping to the next day…
Enjoy.
here is the data.. it is a bit of a mess I know.. but it might be useful to you for some reason…

	Pigs	Rabbits	Goats	Bulls	Deer	Sheep	Horse
Number Init	97	2799	139	55	111	139	41
Cost Init	7000	11000	3800	22000	30000	12600	24350
Cost/Unit	72.16495	3.929975	27.33813	400	270.2703	90.64748	593.9024
age 2 no	97	3826	140	55	111	140	41
Age 2 cost	6700	10300	3500	20700	28500	12500	22900
Cost/Unit	69.07216	2.692107	25	376.3636	256.7568	89.28571	558.5366
Age 3 No	100	3247	141	55	112	143	41
Age 3 Cost	6860	55880	3590	20700	28350	20450	23020
Cost/Unit	68.6	17.20973	25.46099	376.3636	253.125	143.007	561.4634
Age 4 No	104		143	56	113	147	42
Age 4 Cost	7083		3750	20900	55835	28196	23580
Cost/Unit	68.10577		26.22378	373.2143	494.115	191.8095	561.4286
Age 5 No	108		144	56	114		42
Age 5 Cost	7100		3550	20900	89038		32500
Cost/Unit	65.74074		24.65278	373.2143	781.0351		773.8095
Age 6 NO	112		146	56	114		43
Age 6 Cost	7600		13800	35180	117500		41288
Cost/Unit	67.85714		94.52055	628.2143	1030.702		960.186
Age 7 No				57	115		43
Age 7 Cost				51800	144800		49422
Cost/Unit				908.7719	1259.13		1149.349
Age 8 No				57	115		43
Age 8 Cost				68000	176180		58520
Cost/Unit				1192.982	1532		1360.93
Age 9 No				57	115		44
Age 9 Cost				84500	202112		68890
Cost/Unit				1482.456	1757.496		1565.682
Age 10 No				57	116		44
Age 10 Cost				101050	229800		77600
Cost/Unit				1772.807	1981.034		1763.636
Age 11 No				57	116
Age 11 Cost				117800	257654
Cost/Unit				2066.667	2221.155
Age 12 No				57	116
Age 12 Cost				134700	302090
Cost/Unit				2363.158	2604.224
	Pigs	Rabbits	Goats	Bulls	Deer	Sheep	Horse
Age at end	4	3	6	12	12	4	10
No at end	112	3247	146	57	116	147	44
Cost at end	7600	55880	13800	134700	302090	28196	77600
Profit	600	44880	10000	112700	272090	15596	53250
Profit/day (€)	150	14960	1666.667	9391.667	22674.17	3899	5325