Minutes from the October 11 Teleconference

Discussion

• Ed Knuth (UAS) has been working on the geoserver, and we should be able to download data from UAS now. There isn't much client code yet, but there are plans to work on that next, as time permits. GSD is also planning to start working in this area. UAS will be converting Postgres into PostGIS.
• Ed has added more information to the wiki.
• There are 3 FAA profilers in the Juneau area, and UAS may be taking over operations of them. One is in the Lemon Creek area. This is still in the early stages of discussion. We can currently get hold of the profiler data via JAWS.
At the University of Minnesota, Fernando has been coming up to speed on the computers, the university, etc.
• GSD has been working on the pilot project code. The pilot project supports ISET, and also an OGC investigation taking place at GSD. The OGC project has a deadline of early November, when the pilot project code needs to be finished. So far, Ashvin has been able to display topo and snow grid data using nvidia and shaders. Next, he'll work on registering the data, and getting it on the same scale. That will allow us to apply algorithms to redistribute the snow and come up with an improved snow grid.
• The pilot project design included handing off the new snow grid to UAS, where it would be used to initialize a snow melt model. The developer of the model, Josh Jones, may not be able to be involved before the November OGC deadline. This should not have an impact - we can do this part after the deadline.
• It was suggested that we look into Elluminate, which is application- sharing software. We could use it for demo-ing and discussing the pilot project software as we go along. It is a java application, and can be downloaded from the UAS web site.
• The rest of the group needs to have access to the pilot project code soon, to continue making progress in their own areas. As soon as the code is stable, Ashvin should update the web site, and the rest of the group should be notified.
• For the second phase of the pilot project, the plans are to incorporate NCAT data. Kawana Fuller and Michael Burns from NCAT, and Michael Grossberg from CUNY will be involved. CUNY has some scripts that download satellite data from the MODIS database using OGC standards, and compute mutual information from two channels.
• There were problems with dialing into the conference call: the passcode wasn't always accepted. We'll keep an eye on this, and if it happens again we'll get someone to investigate.
• Next meeting: October 25, 9:00 am MST