It doesn't mean the entire concept is flawed, but I don't see many professionals shelling out for something like this when they could be picking up a new lens, a better tripod head, or a tried-and-true monitor.
This is especially true when monitoring hydrologic change at scales below 30 m, the resolution of one Landsat pixel.
A true autonomic monitoring system which can detect unexpected erroneous states and then return the system to an acceptable state remains an open research area.
It is in this manner that true process monitoring is attained and, if performed far enough upstream, intervention possible.
While it is true that Monitor, a consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, once had a sparkling reputation, on November 7th, it declared it can no longer pay the bills and sought bankruptcy protection.
These images were analysed using Image Pro-Plus (V 5.1, Media Cybernetics, USA) on a 17 in., 32-bit true colour monitor.
One ophthalmologist ("reader") in the Reading Center, with 12 years experience with retinal diseases, downloaded the data and read the images with a 17-inch true-color monitor (resolution: 1280 × 1024 pixels and 24-bit color; Trinitron Multiscan G500, Sony, Japan) by the end of the next business day.
Frequently, the true costs of monitoring are not recognized and are, therefore, underestimated.
However, the volume updating time now requires several seconds for a one-volume scan, and still insufficient for monitoring true, real-time motion of the fatal part.
