THE PI PROPOSES TO EXTRACT/UNDERSTAND DETAILED THERMO-FLUID MECHANICS OF PREVIOUS EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED BY NASA'S PHYSICAL SCIENCES INFORMATICS (PSI) STDCE-1 (SURFACE TENSION DRIVEN CONVECTION EXPERIMENTS). STDCE PROVIDED INVALUABLE VIDEO RECORDINGS (QUALITATIVE DATA) BUT ONLY A FEW PAPER/REPORTS WERE PUBLISHED WITH AN OUTDATED PARTICLE TRACKING METHOD IN EARLY 1990. SINCE THEN THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF PARTICLE TRACKING METHODS DEVELOPED WITH VARIOUS FILTERING