OWS-6 Movies are finally available!
With the OGC TC in Boston this week, the pressure was up to make those movies available.
The first one is related to RESTFul workflows:
The second one provides more information on the underlying security archtecture:
Security Requirements for RESTful Web Services
A RESTful web service approach is great but it needs to be somewhat secure to survive in the wild Internet.
Here are some of our requirements that we tried to address with our OGC OWS-6 demonstration. I will try to upload the videos to YouTube next week.
Here is another presentation given at the 2009 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2009) in Baltimore this week. More later…
Guatemala Landslide Detected by EO-1 ALI
Upon request from SERVIR, EO-1 took an image of a landslide in Guatemals on Jan 9, 2009, three days after the event. The landslide is showing in pink on the left handside of the image. Approximately 240 acres of land were affected by the landslide. Reports earlier last week had indicated that some 36 individuals had been killed and 50 more missing. The news report also indicates that a large portion of the road has been destroyed.
30m Hyperspectral data is being used to analysed the damage. An underused EO-1 asset that can be used for Disaster Managment: the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) actually produces 10m Pan-sharpened data. A product that we routinely generate for burn scar detection shows the landslide in astonishing details. ALi has a wider swath (37km) than Hyperion (7.5km) and seems to produce more valuable information for disaster management application.
Our goal for the SensorWeb is to automatically generate these data products on-demand for our end-users based on themes of interest.
This might very well be a new theme we will support in the near future.
Two Degrees to SensorWeb 2
For SensorWeb to be relevant, we believe that any of its data and assets can be no further away than two degress of separation from anyone in the world. This does assume that those users would be from trusted domains and would have been granted the proper permissions from their organizations. We are coining this our SWE "Bacon" number or Two. So, you are doing SWE? What is your Bacon number?
LA Freeway Fire
This is a snapshot of a higher resolution image taken by the EO-1 Advanced Land Imager. The actual pan-sharpened images (10m resolution) are about 250MB each. Our goal is to generate these products in less than 12 hours of an emergency to the fire management authority.
