Some of you might find this an interesting challenge and a good cause... -Perry
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [ESIP-all] URGENT: calling all image interpreters/exploiters Date: Sunday 04 February 2007 15:02 From: James Frew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello ESIP Federation, As you may know, Jim Gray (Turing awardee and one of the fathers of modern database technology) sailed out of San Francisco a week ago and hasn't been seen since (see http://tinyurl.com/3ab6a8 for news coverage). After 4 days of searching more than 100,000 square miles, the Coast Guard suspended searching for him (see http://tinyurl.com/3azgyx ), pending any credible leads. Many of Jim's friends and colleagues have self-assembled online for the purpose of generating exactly those leads. With help from MDA Geospatial, Google, and NASA, we've acquire RADARSAT, QuickBird (0.6m pan), and ER-2 (2m vis/IR) imagery of areas where Jim's boat might have been. Groups at MBARI and JPL have set up current/wind models that we can seed with any sightings to predict where Jim's boat is now, which is what the Coast Guard needs to resume the search. Here's where you-all come in. 1) All the raw imagery is available via FTP. If you have some expertise in small (i.e. 1..10x resolution) target extraction from visible or radar imagery, please consider applying it to this problem. 2) The non-radar imagery has been tiled into Amazon.com's "Mechanical Turk", where ~1500 possible sightings have been identified by volunteers on the web. We need image interpreters to evaluate these identifications and winnow them down to serious potential sightings. If you would like to participate in either of these activities, please email David Tennenhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who's coordinating our image interpretation/exploitation activity, and cc me: James Frew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> so he knows you're jumping into this at my invitation and aren't some random web crazy (unfortunately those are already starting to crawl out of the woodwork.) Give a *brief* summary of your qualifications and what you'd like to work on, and David (or I, if I catch it first) will send the appropriate URLs. Thanks a bunch (and sorry for spamming your super-sunday), /Frew _______________________________________________ ESIP-all mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rtpnet.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-all ------------------------------------------------------- -- Perry Nacionales Dept. of Forest Resources University of Minnesota [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
