July 25

Today I figured out how to get rid of almost all the background interference in my images, sort of. I found this program called iImage that opens out of IDL and can run several different filter and morph functions. The erode function works particularly well to destroy noise. The only problem is that the only way this program saves the images is in a weird file type (not JPEG) that I cannot manipulate in IDL. So, I need to figure out the commands in IDL to do the erode function, which is not as easy as I thought. Hopefully, with a little of help from Jake, I will be able to get this to work and actually make some forward progress, otherwise I will have to look for yet another method! Oh well, atleast it is Friday!!!