Load up those GeoTiffs and render them out as tiles with Tilemill, just sayin :)
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Banick, Robert <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi All, > > Great to see this getting time in the sun. Everyone in the humanitarian > space has been chattering about UAVs for a while now, but no one seems to > have figured it out at the non-UN scale. Would love it if the HOT community > could be the ones to make that happen. > > My two cents: it's my understanding from smarter, more remote sensing > oriented disaster responders that the main impediment to using UAVS right > now is the painfulness of imagery post-processing, particularly in low / no > bandwidth environments. A lot of UAVs are high on flight / camera > technology and low on accessible imagery processing software. Clunktron > levels of bad. Figuring out the accessibility and speed issues this creates > will make the end product much, much more user oriented, which after all is > the point. > > Best, > Robert > > > *Robert Banick* | GIS Coordinator | International Services | Ì American > Red Cross <http://www.redcross.org/> > > From: Jonas Shorn <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, July 18, 2013 3:31 AM > To: Heather Leson <[email protected]> > Cc: Joseph Pollack <[email protected]>, " > [email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [HOT] UAVs > > Joseph, > > great to see you here and in this context! You know there are > opportunities at the doorstep here :-) > > Lets connect when you are back from geneva! > > > 2013/7/18 Heather Leson <[email protected]> > >> HI Joseph, I'd be interested in seeing this research from at risk >> assessment angle. >> >> heather >> >> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Joseph Pollack < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear Hotties, >>> >>> I've been periodically (every 3-6 months or so for 3 year) been >>> posting in crisis mappers and HOT about using UAVs for mapping and other >>> stuff. I'm really happy you guys are now talking about it! >>> >>> I've been looking at low-cost UAVs for a while now, and I think that >>> technology has reached the maturity whereby we can instrument a rig with >>> sensors for a total cost of less than 5 thousand dollars. Which means we >>> can basically start shipping these to wherever VERY cheaply, with a HUGE >>> impact! This is the state of technology TODAY imho. >>> >>> I'm immensely keen to contribute in substance to a white paper, a >>> focus group and so on. And I'm even more keen to start actually >>> fundraising, buying and instrumenting these in my back yard, at the lab or >>> wherever, and to start shipping these to groups that can use them. I know a >>> couple, and I'm sure you guys know of more that could use something like >>> this. >>> >>> Civilian-led high-res imagery for civilian-initiatives : it's the >>> crowd watching over itself - we're already here! Let's make this happen. >>> Kindly consider me a ressource for however you're deciding to run with >>> this. But let's run with this most definitely! >>> >>> Warm Regards, >>> >>> -Joseph. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> HOT mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Heather Leson >> Director of Community Engagement >> *Ushahidi* >> [email protected] >> www.ushahidi.com and https://wiki.ushahidi.com >> @heatherleson / skype: heatherleson >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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