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Article in cnn.com/technology

Updated 1:55 p.m. EDT, Fri October 26, 2007

“It’s kind of like going to the weather channel for fire,” says Dan Mandl, the EO-1 mission manager at NASA. “Every sensor in the world becomes a data feed, and we’re using RSS technology [so] anyone can locate and subscribe to it.”

Instead of having people intercept the data, the process has become automated, which speeds up the information-gathering process, Mandl says. An image from the EO1 used to take two weeks to analyze, but the first images from the fire in Southern California were analyzed in less than 10 hours.

“The fire workers need to have as much data as possible about the location of the fires,” Mandl says, “because the big problem is that fires don’t stay still.”

The GeoBliki workflow kicked off this morning after the the Level 1G data was processed by JPL. Many OGC services were orchestrated using our GeoBusiness Management Process (GeoBPMS): Sensor Planning Service(SPS), Sensor Observation Service(SOS), Web Feature Server(WFS) from GeoBliki; Web Processing Service from JPL WPS; Web Coverage Service(WCS) from GMU. This workflow produced a new data product for the thermal overlay of task #73.

Here is the Google Earth kmz file .

If you want to know about new data products as they happen, then follow EO-1 GeoBliki on twitter.

A new PubSub service will be coming online soon!

Stay tuned.

NASA support has been requested in for a state of emergency so we are all trying to help as we can. We have modified our GEOSS workflows to monitor the situation in the San Diego area. Fire threats are being detected based on MODIS data and EO-1 is being tasked twice a day to image the area.

RESTful workflows implemented using OpenWFERu are being used to process the imagery to deliver the data to the first responders. First thermal imagery processed onboard the satellite has been downlinked and is available on http://eo1.geobliki.com. Higher resolution data will be available as soon as possible.

As more than 500,000 people are being evacuated and many are loosing their homes, our prayers and thoughts are with you.

Our latest video on our GEOSS use-case finally made it to YouTube.

With Many thanks to Ingo Simonis!

RESTFul OGC Web Services were a big topic at this meeting in boulder Colorado this week. OGC has formed a REST working group and many have signed up to develop potential reference implementations of RESTful OGC Services for demonstration in December at the next meeting In Italy.

But we need more volunteers for a bake-off! We are starting to reach the tipping point and this is exciting.