Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator
+1 (binding) Best, Andrew. On 06/12/2013 11:22 AM, Ramirez, Paul M (398J) wrote: All, I'd like to call a VOTE for the acceptance of Apache HotdoG into the Incubator. I'll leave the VOTE open for the rest of the week and close it out Monday, June 17th early am PT. [ ] +1 Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator [ ] +0 Don't care. [ ] -1 Don't accept Apache HotdoG because... Full Proposal is pasted at the end of this email. Only VOTEs from Incubator PMC members are binding, but all are welcome to express their thoughts. This is a second pass at this vote as I canceled it to pull in more mentors. The following people voted on the first pass: Henry Saputra +1 (binding) Chris Mattmann + 1 (binding) Thanks! Paul Ramirez P.S. +1 from me (binding) = HotdoG Proposal = == Abstract == The HotdoG project is an effort and suite of tools to convert HDF/HDF-EOS format into GeoTIFF format. This is the first of a potential series of incoming projects originating from The HDF Group -- the non-profit organization is interested in evaluating the ASF as a potential home for many of its projects. The HDF Group is an independently funded organization that started many years ago with major investment from NASA as the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), version 4 and now version 5, is the ''de facto'' remote sensing data format for NASA missions, and an increasing number of other disciplines including bio medicine, radio astronomy, climate science, and other domains. HDF is both a data and metadata format, as well as a model for representing and access information. There are numerous downstream tools that can read and write HDF data, including a growing number of Geospatial data tools (ESRI-based, and also OpenGeo and other community led efforts). In addition, major interoperability efforts are also occurring between the remote sensing community and the climate modeling community (which has traditionally favored NetCDF as opposed to HDF) because of the efforts in HDF5 to leverage a common data format and model. HotdoG is poised to be a first of its kind in the form of bringing one of the major 2 data formats for science to the ASF (the other being the NetCDF format). == Proposal == HotdoG is a software converter that converts Earth Science data in HDF/HDF-EOS format into GeoTIFF format. Doing so easily enables users of remote sensing data to interoperate with common GIS tools (like WebGIS, Web Processing, image analysis, and geo computational tools). We feel that the project is an incremental step, and an appropriate focus with tangible success possibilities by restraining our focus to HDF/HDF-EOS to GeoTIFF conversion. There are numerous interesting paths that we can take the toolkit in -- as conversion from remotely sensed data to GeoTIFF involves ensuring that the HDF-EOS metadata elements can be appropriately represented using GeoTIFF headers, and the associated format. Furthermore, capturing the HDF's appropriate geo datum in GeoTIFF will be another important challenge. == Background == GeoTIFF is a data and metadata standard for Earth science applications. It is based on binary Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). A GeoTIFF file has geographic (or cartographic) data embedded as tags within the TIFF file that are used to geo-locate the image. This is required for correct integration of the image in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other popular tools like Google Earth Pro. In the recent years, GeoTIFF has gained popularity as a visualization format among NASA HDF Earth science user communities according to the NASA data user's survey. However, the conversion from HDF to GeoTIFF is not straightforward for end users because NASA HDF data products are diverse and organized in many different ways. For example, go to http://hdfeos.org/zoo and you'll see many scripting language examples because no single script can correctly visualize all NASA HDF data. == Rationale == The HEG tool is limited to some NASA HDF-EOS2 products (no support for HDF-EOS5 products) and it is not an open-source tool. The latest GDAL (version 1.9.2 and above) is an open-source tool but it cannot handle many non-HDF-EOS NASA HDF products such as TRMM (pure HDF4) and Aquarius (pure HDF5) correctly and automatically. == Initial Goals == We'll improve GDAL to support NASA HDF products better by handling geo-location information and physical meaning of data correctly and automatically. We'll handle NASA products intelligently so novice users don't have to supply many options or figure out the details about the data products. For advanced users, we'll give a full control of accessing HDF products in many different ways so that the converted GeoTIFF file is scientifically valid and meaningful. We aim to provide command line tools first and evolve them into a GUI tool. == Current Status == We're looking for people interested in HotdoG and to move the project into the Apache Community.
Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator
+1 binding. Cheers, Chris ++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++ -Original Message- From: Ramirez, Paul M (398J) paul.m.rami...@jpl.nasa.gov Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 11:22 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Subject: [VOTE] Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator All, I'd like to call a VOTE for the acceptance of Apache HotdoG into the Incubator. I'll leave the VOTE open for the rest of the week and close it out Monday, June 17th early am PT. [ ] +1 Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator [ ] +0 Don't care. [ ] -1 Don't accept Apache HotdoG because... Full Proposal is pasted at the end of this email. Only VOTEs from Incubator PMC members are binding, but all are welcome to express their thoughts. This is a second pass at this vote as I canceled it to pull in more mentors. The following people voted on the first pass: Henry Saputra +1 (binding) Chris Mattmann + 1 (binding) Thanks! Paul Ramirez P.S. +1 from me (binding) = HotdoG Proposal = == Abstract == The HotdoG project is an effort and suite of tools to convert HDF/HDF-EOS format into GeoTIFF format. This is the first of a potential series of incoming projects originating from The HDF Group -- the non-profit organization is interested in evaluating the ASF as a potential home for many of its projects. The HDF Group is an independently funded organization that started many years ago with major investment from NASA as the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), version 4 and now version 5, is the ''de facto'' remote sensing data format for NASA missions, and an increasing number of other disciplines including bio medicine, radio astronomy, climate science, and other domains. HDF is both a data and metadata format, as well as a model for representing and access information. There are numerous downstream tools that can read and write HDF data, including a growing number of Geospatial data tools (ESRI-based, and also OpenGeo and other community led efforts). In addition, major interoperability efforts are also occurring between the remote sensing community and the climate modeling community (which has traditionally favored NetCDF as opposed to HDF) because of the efforts in HDF5 to leverage a common data format and model. HotdoG is poised to be a first of its kind in the form of bringing one of the major 2 data formats for science to the ASF (the other being the NetCDF format). == Proposal == HotdoG is a software converter that converts Earth Science data in HDF/HDF-EOS format into GeoTIFF format. Doing so easily enables users of remote sensing data to interoperate with common GIS tools (like WebGIS, Web Processing, image analysis, and geo computational tools). We feel that the project is an incremental step, and an appropriate focus with tangible success possibilities by restraining our focus to HDF/HDF-EOS to GeoTIFF conversion. There are numerous interesting paths that we can take the toolkit in -- as conversion from remotely sensed data to GeoTIFF involves ensuring that the HDF-EOS metadata elements can be appropriately represented using GeoTIFF headers, and the associated format. Furthermore, capturing the HDF's appropriate geo datum in GeoTIFF will be another important challenge. == Background == GeoTIFF is a data and metadata standard for Earth science applications. It is based on binary Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). A GeoTIFF file has geographic (or cartographic) data embedded as tags within the TIFF file that are used to geo-locate the image. This is required for correct integration of the image in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other popular tools like Google Earth Pro. In the recent years, GeoTIFF has gained popularity as a visualization format among NASA HDF Earth science user communities according to the NASA data user's survey. However, the conversion from HDF to GeoTIFF is not straightforward for end users because NASA HDF data products are diverse and organized in many different ways. For example, go to http://hdfeos.org/zoo and you'll see many scripting language examples because no single script can correctly visualize all NASA HDF data. == Rationale == The HEG tool is limited to some NASA HDF-EOS2 products (no support for HDF-EOS5 products) and it is not an open-source tool. The latest GDAL (version 1.9.2 and above) is an open-source tool but it cannot handle many non-HDF-EOS NASA HDF products such as TRMM (pure
Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013, at 01:22 PM, Ramirez, Paul M (398J) wrote: I'd like to call a VOTE for the acceptance of Apache HotdoG into the Incubator. I'll leave the VOTE open for the rest of the week and close it out Monday, June 17th early am PT. [ ] +1 Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator [ ] +0 Don't care. [ ] -1 Don't accept Apache HotdoG because... Full Proposal is pasted at the end of this email. Only VOTEs from Incubator PMC members are binding, but all are welcome to express their thoughts. +1 (binding) Best, jzb -- Joe Brockmeier j...@zonker.net Twitter: @jzb http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Ramirez, Paul M (398J) paul.m.rami...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: All, I'd like to call a VOTE for the acceptance of Apache HotdoG into the Incubator. I'll leave the VOTE open for the rest of the week and close it out Monday, June 17th early am PT. [ ] +1 Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator [ ] +0 Don't care. [ ] -1 Don't accept Apache HotdoG because... +1 (binding) Thanks, Roman. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator
+ 1 (binding). Suresh On Jun 12, 2013, at 2:22 PM, Ramirez, Paul M (398J) paul.m.rami...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: All, I'd like to call a VOTE for the acceptance of Apache HotdoG into the Incubator. I'll leave the VOTE open for the rest of the week and close it out Monday, June 17th early am PT. [ ] +1 Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator [ ] +0 Don't care. [ ] -1 Don't accept Apache HotdoG because... Full Proposal is pasted at the end of this email. Only VOTEs from Incubator PMC members are binding, but all are welcome to express their thoughts. This is a second pass at this vote as I canceled it to pull in more mentors. The following people voted on the first pass: Henry Saputra +1 (binding) Chris Mattmann + 1 (binding) Thanks! Paul Ramirez P.S. +1 from me (binding) = HotdoG Proposal = == Abstract == The HotdoG project is an effort and suite of tools to convert HDF/HDF-EOS format into GeoTIFF format. This is the first of a potential series of incoming projects originating from The HDF Group -- the non-profit organization is interested in evaluating the ASF as a potential home for many of its projects. The HDF Group is an independently funded organization that started many years ago with major investment from NASA as the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), version 4 and now version 5, is the ''de facto'' remote sensing data format for NASA missions, and an increasing number of other disciplines including bio medicine, radio astronomy, climate science, and other domains. HDF is both a data and metadata format, as well as a model for representing and access information. There are numerous downstream tools that can read and write HDF data, including a growing number of Geospatial data tools (ESRI-based, and also OpenGeo and other community led efforts). In addition, major interoperability efforts are also occurring between the remote sensing community and the climate modeling community (which has traditionally favored NetCDF as opposed to HDF) because of the efforts in HDF5 to leverage a common data format and model. HotdoG is poised to be a first of its kind in the form of bringing one of the major 2 data formats for science to the ASF (the other being the NetCDF format). == Proposal == HotdoG is a software converter that converts Earth Science data in HDF/HDF-EOS format into GeoTIFF format. Doing so easily enables users of remote sensing data to interoperate with common GIS tools (like WebGIS, Web Processing, image analysis, and geo computational tools). We feel that the project is an incremental step, and an appropriate focus with tangible success possibilities by restraining our focus to HDF/HDF-EOS to GeoTIFF conversion. There are numerous interesting paths that we can take the toolkit in -- as conversion from remotely sensed data to GeoTIFF involves ensuring that the HDF-EOS metadata elements can be appropriately represented using GeoTIFF headers, and the associated format. Furthermore, capturing the HDF's appropriate geo datum in GeoTIFF will be another important challenge. == Background == GeoTIFF is a data and metadata standard for Earth science applications. It is based on binary Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). A GeoTIFF file has geographic (or cartographic) data embedded as tags within the TIFF file that are used to geo-locate the image. This is required for correct integration of the image in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other popular tools like Google Earth Pro. In the recent years, GeoTIFF has gained popularity as a visualization format among NASA HDF Earth science user communities according to the NASA data user's survey. However, the conversion from HDF to GeoTIFF is not straightforward for end users because NASA HDF data products are diverse and organized in many different ways. For example, go to http://hdfeos.org/zoo and you'll see many scripting language examples because no single script can correctly visualize all NASA HDF data. == Rationale == The HEG tool is limited to some NASA HDF-EOS2 products (no support for HDF-EOS5 products) and it is not an open-source tool. The latest GDAL (version 1.9.2 and above) is an open-source tool but it cannot handle many non-HDF-EOS NASA HDF products such as TRMM (pure HDF4) and Aquarius (pure HDF5) correctly and automatically. == Initial Goals == We'll improve GDAL to support NASA HDF products better by handling geo-location information and physical meaning of data correctly and automatically. We'll handle NASA products intelligently so novice users don't have to supply many options or figure out the details about the data products. For advanced users, we'll give a full control of accessing HDF products in many different ways so that the converted GeoTIFF file is scientifically valid and meaningful. We aim to provide command line tools first and evolve them
Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator
+1 - binding Regards, Alan On Jun 12, 2013, at 11:22 AM, Ramirez, Paul M (398J) paul.m.rami...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: All, I'd like to call a VOTE for the acceptance of Apache HotdoG into the Incubator. I'll leave the VOTE open for the rest of the week and close it out Monday, June 17th early am PT. [ ] +1 Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator [ ] +0 Don't care. [ ] -1 Don't accept Apache HotdoG because... Full Proposal is pasted at the end of this email. Only VOTEs from Incubator PMC members are binding, but all are welcome to express their thoughts. This is a second pass at this vote as I canceled it to pull in more mentors. The following people voted on the first pass: Henry Saputra +1 (binding) Chris Mattmann + 1 (binding) Thanks! Paul Ramirez P.S. +1 from me (binding) = HotdoG Proposal = == Abstract == The HotdoG project is an effort and suite of tools to convert HDF/HDF-EOS format into GeoTIFF format. This is the first of a potential series of incoming projects originating from The HDF Group -- the non-profit organization is interested in evaluating the ASF as a potential home for many of its projects. The HDF Group is an independently funded organization that started many years ago with major investment from NASA as the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), version 4 and now version 5, is the ''de facto'' remote sensing data format for NASA missions, and an increasing number of other disciplines including bio medicine, radio astronomy, climate science, and other domains. HDF is both a data and metadata format, as well as a model for representing and access information. There are numerous downstream tools that can read and write HDF data, including a growing number of Geospatial data tools (ESRI-based, and also OpenGeo and other community led efforts). In addition, major interoperability efforts are also occurring between the remote sensing community and the climate modeling community (which has traditionally favored NetCDF as opposed to HDF) because of the efforts in HDF5 to leverage a common data format and model. HotdoG is poised to be a first of its kind in the form of bringing one of the major 2 data formats for science to the ASF (the other being the NetCDF format). == Proposal == HotdoG is a software converter that converts Earth Science data in HDF/HDF-EOS format into GeoTIFF format. Doing so easily enables users of remote sensing data to interoperate with common GIS tools (like WebGIS, Web Processing, image analysis, and geo computational tools). We feel that the project is an incremental step, and an appropriate focus with tangible success possibilities by restraining our focus to HDF/HDF-EOS to GeoTIFF conversion. There are numerous interesting paths that we can take the toolkit in -- as conversion from remotely sensed data to GeoTIFF involves ensuring that the HDF-EOS metadata elements can be appropriately represented using GeoTIFF headers, and the associated format. Furthermore, capturing the HDF's appropriate geo datum in GeoTIFF will be another important challenge. == Background == GeoTIFF is a data and metadata standard for Earth science applications. It is based on binary Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). A GeoTIFF file has geographic (or cartographic) data embedded as tags within the TIFF file that are used to geo-locate the image. This is required for correct integration of the image in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other popular tools like Google Earth Pro. In the recent years, GeoTIFF has gained popularity as a visualization format among NASA HDF Earth science user communities according to the NASA data user's survey. However, the conversion from HDF to GeoTIFF is not straightforward for end users because NASA HDF data products are diverse and organized in many different ways. For example, go to http://hdfeos.org/zoo and you'll see many scripting language examples because no single script can correctly visualize all NASA HDF data. == Rationale == The HEG tool is limited to some NASA HDF-EOS2 products (no support for HDF-EOS5 products) and it is not an open-source tool. The latest GDAL (version 1.9.2 and above) is an open-source tool but it cannot handle many non-HDF-EOS NASA HDF products such as TRMM (pure HDF4) and Aquarius (pure HDF5) correctly and automatically. == Initial Goals == We'll improve GDAL to support NASA HDF products better by handling geo-location information and physical meaning of data correctly and automatically. We'll handle NASA products intelligently so novice users don't have to supply many options or figure out the details about the data products. For advanced users, we'll give a full control of accessing HDF products in many different ways so that the converted GeoTIFF file is scientifically valid and meaningful. We aim to provide command line tools first and evolve
Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator
+1 binding. Good luck guys - Henry On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Ramirez, Paul M (398J) paul.m.rami...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: All, I'd like to call a VOTE for the acceptance of Apache HotdoG into the Incubator. I'll leave the VOTE open for the rest of the week and close it out Monday, June 17th early am PT. [ ] +1 Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator [ ] +0 Don't care. [ ] -1 Don't accept Apache HotdoG because... Full Proposal is pasted at the end of this email. Only VOTEs from Incubator PMC members are binding, but all are welcome to express their thoughts. This is a second pass at this vote as I canceled it to pull in more mentors. The following people voted on the first pass: Henry Saputra +1 (binding) Chris Mattmann + 1 (binding) Thanks! Paul Ramirez P.S. +1 from me (binding) = HotdoG Proposal = == Abstract == The HotdoG project is an effort and suite of tools to convert HDF/HDF-EOS format into GeoTIFF format. This is the first of a potential series of incoming projects originating from The HDF Group -- the non-profit organization is interested in evaluating the ASF as a potential home for many of its projects. The HDF Group is an independently funded organization that started many years ago with major investment from NASA as the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), version 4 and now version 5, is the ''de facto'' remote sensing data format for NASA missions, and an increasing number of other disciplines including bio medicine, radio astronomy, climate science, and other domains. HDF is both a data and metadata format, as well as a model for representing and access information. There are numerous downstream tools that can read and write HDF data, including a growing number of Geospatial data tools (ESRI-based, and also OpenGeo and other community led efforts). In addition, major interoperability efforts are also occurring between the remote sensing community and the climate modeling community (which has traditionally favored NetCDF as opposed to HDF) because of the efforts in HDF5 to leverage a common data format and model. HotdoG is poised to be a first of its kind in the form of bringing one of the major 2 data formats for science to the ASF (the other being the NetCDF format). == Proposal == HotdoG is a software converter that converts Earth Science data in HDF/HDF-EOS format into GeoTIFF format. Doing so easily enables users of remote sensing data to interoperate with common GIS tools (like WebGIS, Web Processing, image analysis, and geo computational tools). We feel that the project is an incremental step, and an appropriate focus with tangible success possibilities by restraining our focus to HDF/HDF-EOS to GeoTIFF conversion. There are numerous interesting paths that we can take the toolkit in -- as conversion from remotely sensed data to GeoTIFF involves ensuring that the HDF-EOS metadata elements can be appropriately represented using GeoTIFF headers, and the associated format. Furthermore, capturing the HDF's appropriate geo datum in GeoTIFF will be another important challenge. == Background == GeoTIFF is a data and metadata standard for Earth science applications. It is based on binary Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). A GeoTIFF file has geographic (or cartographic) data embedded as tags within the TIFF file that are used to geo-locate the image. This is required for correct integration of the image in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other popular tools like Google Earth Pro. In the recent years, GeoTIFF has gained popularity as a visualization format among NASA HDF Earth science user communities according to the NASA data user's survey. However, the conversion from HDF to GeoTIFF is not straightforward for end users because NASA HDF data products are diverse and organized in many different ways. For example, go to http://hdfeos.org/zoo and you'll see many scripting language examples because no single script can correctly visualize all NASA HDF data. == Rationale == The HEG tool is limited to some NASA HDF-EOS2 products (no support for HDF-EOS5 products) and it is not an open-source tool. The latest GDAL (version 1.9.2 and above) is an open-source tool but it cannot handle many non-HDF-EOS NASA HDF products such as TRMM (pure HDF4) and Aquarius (pure HDF5) correctly and automatically. == Initial Goals == We'll improve GDAL to support NASA HDF products better by handling geo-location information and physical meaning of data correctly and automatically. We'll handle NASA products intelligently so novice users don't have to supply many options or figure out the details about the data products. For advanced users, we'll give a full control of accessing HDF products in many different ways so that the converted GeoTIFF file is scientifically valid and meaningful. We aim to provide command line tools first and evolve them into a GUI tool. == Current Status == We're looking
Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator
Correction that is Monday, June 10th. --Paul From: Ramirez, JPL paul.m.rami...@jpl.nasa.govmailto:paul.m.rami...@jpl.nasa.gov Date: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 10:28 AM To: general@incubator.apache.orgmailto:general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.orgmailto:general@incubator.apache.org Subject: [VOTE] Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator All, I'd like to call a VOTE for the acceptance of Apache HotdoG into the Incubator. I'll leave the VOTE open for the rest of the week and close it out Monday, June 11th early am PT. [ ] +1 Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator [ ] +0 Don't care. [ ] -1 Don't accept Apache HotdoG because... Full Proposal is pasted at the end of this email. Only VOTEs from Incubator PMC members are binding, but all are welcome to express their thoughts. Thanks! Paul Ramirez P.S. +1 from me (binding) = HotdoG Proposal = == Abstract == The HotdoG project is an effort and suite of tools to convert HDF/HDF-EOS format into GeoTIFF format. This is the first of a potential series of incoming projects originating from The HDF Group -- the non-profit organization is interested in evaluating the ASF as a potential home for many of its projects. The HDF Group is an independently funded organization that started many years ago with major investment from NASA as the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), version 4 and now version 5, is the ''de facto'' remote sensing data format for NASA missions, and an increasing number of other disciplines including bio medicine, radio astronomy, climate science, and other domains. HDF is both a data and metadata format, as well as a model for representing and access information. There are numerous downstream tools that can read and write HDF data, including a growing number of Geospatial data tools (ESRI-based, and also OpenGeo and other community led efforts). In addition, major interoperability efforts are also occurring between the remote sensing community and the climate modeling community (which has traditionally favored NetCDF as opposed to HDF) because of the efforts in HDF5 to leverage a common data format and model. HotdoG is poised to be a first of its kind in the form of bringing one of the major 2 data formats for science to the ASF (the other being the NetCDF format). == Proposal == HotdoG is a software converter that converts Earth Science data in HDF/HDF-EOS format into GeoTIFF format. Doing so easily enables users of remote sensing data to interoperate with common GIS tools (like WebGIS, Web Processing, image analysis, and geo computational tools). We feel that the project is an incremental step, and an appropriate focus with tangible success possibilities by restraining our focus to HDF/HDF-EOS to GeoTIFF conversion. There are numerous interesting paths that we can take the toolkit in -- as conversion from remotely sensed data to GeoTIFF involves ensuring that the HDF-EOS metadata elements can be appropriately represented using GeoTIFF headers, and the associated format. Furthermore, capturing the HDF's appropriate geo datum in GeoTIFF will be another important challenge. == Background == GeoTIFF is a data and metadata standard for Earth science applications. It is based on binary Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). A GeoTIFF file has geographic (or cartographic) data embedded as tags within the TIFF file that are used to geo-locate the image. This is required for correct integration of the image in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other popular tools like Google Earth Pro. In the recent years, GeoTIFF has gained popularity as a visualization format among NASA HDF Earth science user communities according to the NASA data user's survey. However, the conversion from HDF to GeoTIFF is not straightforward for end users because NASA HDF data products are diverse and organized in many different ways. For example, go to http://hdfeos.org/zoo and you'll see many scripting language examples because no single script can correctly visualize all NASA HDF data. == Rationale == The HEG tool is limited to some NASA HDF-EOS2 products (no support for HDF-EOS5 products) and it is not an open-source tool. The latest GDAL (version 1.9.2 and above) is an open-source tool but it cannot handle many non-HDF-EOS NASA HDF products such as TRMM (pure HDF4) and Aquarius (pure HDF5) correctly and automatically. == Initial Goals == We'll improve GDAL to support NASA HDF products better by handling geo-location information and physical meaning of data correctly and automatically. We'll handle NASA products intelligently so novice users don't have to supply many options or figure out the details about the data products. For advanced users, we'll give a full control of accessing HDF products in many different ways so that the converted GeoTIFF file is scientifically valid and meaningful. We aim to provide command line tools first and evolve them into a GUI tool. == Current Status == We're
Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator
+1 (binding). Cheers, Chris ++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++ -Original Message- From: Ramirez, Paul M (398J) paul.m.rami...@jpl.nasa.gov Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Date: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 10:28 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Subject: [VOTE] Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator All, I'd like to call a VOTE for the acceptance of Apache HotdoG into the Incubator. I'll leave the VOTE open for the rest of the week and close it out Monday, June 11th early am PT. [ ] +1 Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator [ ] +0 Don't care. [ ] -1 Don't accept Apache HotdoG because... Full Proposal is pasted at the end of this email. Only VOTEs from Incubator PMC members are binding, but all are welcome to express their thoughts. Thanks! Paul Ramirez P.S. +1 from me (binding) = HotdoG Proposal = == Abstract == The HotdoG project is an effort and suite of tools to convert HDF/HDF-EOS format into GeoTIFF format. This is the first of a potential series of incoming projects originating from The HDF Group -- the non-profit organization is interested in evaluating the ASF as a potential home for many of its projects. The HDF Group is an independently funded organization that started many years ago with major investment from NASA as the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), version 4 and now version 5, is the ''de facto'' remote sensing data format for NASA missions, and an increasing number of other disciplines including bio medicine, radio astronomy, climate science, and other domains. HDF is both a data and metadata format, as well as a model for representing and access information. There are numerous downstream tools that can read and write HDF data, including a growing number of Geospatial data tools (ESRI-based, and also OpenGeo and other community led efforts). In addition, major interoperability efforts are also occurring between the remote sensing community and the climate modeling community (which has traditionally favored NetCDF as opposed to HDF) because of the efforts in HDF5 to leverage a common data format and model. HotdoG is poised to be a first of its kind in the form of bringing one of the major 2 data formats for science to the ASF (the other being the NetCDF format). == Proposal == HotdoG is a software converter that converts Earth Science data in HDF/HDF-EOS format into GeoTIFF format. Doing so easily enables users of remote sensing data to interoperate with common GIS tools (like WebGIS, Web Processing, image analysis, and geo computational tools). We feel that the project is an incremental step, and an appropriate focus with tangible success possibilities by restraining our focus to HDF/HDF-EOS to GeoTIFF conversion. There are numerous interesting paths that we can take the toolkit in -- as conversion from remotely sensed data to GeoTIFF involves ensuring that the HDF-EOS metadata elements can be appropriately represented using GeoTIFF headers, and the associated format. Furthermore, capturing the HDF's appropriate geo datum in GeoTIFF will be another important challenge. == Background == GeoTIFF is a data and metadata standard for Earth science applications. It is based on binary Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). A GeoTIFF file has geographic (or cartographic) data embedded as tags within the TIFF file that are used to geo-locate the image. This is required for correct integration of the image in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other popular tools like Google Earth Pro. In the recent years, GeoTIFF has gained popularity as a visualization format among NASA HDF Earth science user communities according to the NASA data user's survey. However, the conversion from HDF to GeoTIFF is not straightforward for end users because NASA HDF data products are diverse and organized in many different ways. For example, go to http://hdfeos.org/zoo and you'll see many scripting language examples because no single script can correctly visualize all NASA HDF data. == Rationale == The HEG tool is limited to some NASA HDF-EOS2 products (no support for HDF-EOS5 products) and it is not an open-source tool. The latest GDAL (version 1.9.2 and above) is an open-source tool but it cannot handle many non-HDF-EOS NASA HDF products such as TRMM (pure HDF4) and Aquarius (pure HDF5) correctly and automatically. == Initial Goals == We'll improve GDAL to support NASA HDF products better by handling geo-location information and
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On Jun 4, 2013, at 1:28 PM, Ramirez, Paul M (398J) paul.m.rami...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: We're looking for developers and sponsors. Sponsors?? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
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Jim, Thanks, nice catch updating the Current Status to: We're looking for people interested in HotdoG and to move the project into the Apache Community. --Paul On 6/4/13 10:55 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jun 4, 2013, at 1:28 PM, Ramirez, Paul M (398J) paul.m.rami...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: We're looking for developers and sponsors. Sponsors?? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator
+1 (binding) Looks like a good project with awesome initial contributors, good luck guys. - Henry On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Ramirez, Paul M (398J) paul.m.rami...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: All, I'd like to call a VOTE for the acceptance of Apache HotdoG into the Incubator. I'll leave the VOTE open for the rest of the week and close it out Monday, June 11th early am PT. [ ] +1 Accept Apache HotdoG into the Incubator [ ] +0 Don't care. [ ] -1 Don't accept Apache HotdoG because... Full Proposal is pasted at the end of this email. Only VOTEs from Incubator PMC members are binding, but all are welcome to express their thoughts. Thanks! Paul Ramirez P.S. +1 from me (binding) = HotdoG Proposal = == Abstract == The HotdoG project is an effort and suite of tools to convert HDF/HDF-EOS format into GeoTIFF format. This is the first of a potential series of incoming projects originating from The HDF Group -- the non-profit organization is interested in evaluating the ASF as a potential home for many of its projects. The HDF Group is an independently funded organization that started many years ago with major investment from NASA as the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), version 4 and now version 5, is the ''de facto'' remote sensing data format for NASA missions, and an increasing number of other disciplines including bio medicine, radio astronomy, climate science, and other domains. HDF is both a data and metadata format, as well as a model for representing and access information. There are numerous downstream tools that can read and write HDF data, including a growing number of Geospatial data tools (ESRI-based, and also OpenGeo and other community led efforts). In addition, major interoperability efforts are also occurring between the remote sensing community and the climate modeling community (which has traditionally favored NetCDF as opposed to HDF) because of the efforts in HDF5 to leverage a common data format and model. HotdoG is poised to be a first of its kind in the form of bringing one of the major 2 data formats for science to the ASF (the other being the NetCDF format). == Proposal == HotdoG is a software converter that converts Earth Science data in HDF/HDF-EOS format into GeoTIFF format. Doing so easily enables users of remote sensing data to interoperate with common GIS tools (like WebGIS, Web Processing, image analysis, and geo computational tools). We feel that the project is an incremental step, and an appropriate focus with tangible success possibilities by restraining our focus to HDF/HDF-EOS to GeoTIFF conversion. There are numerous interesting paths that we can take the toolkit in -- as conversion from remotely sensed data to GeoTIFF involves ensuring that the HDF-EOS metadata elements can be appropriately represented using GeoTIFF headers, and the associated format. Furthermore, capturing the HDF's appropriate geo datum in GeoTIFF will be another important challenge. == Background == GeoTIFF is a data and metadata standard for Earth science applications. It is based on binary Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). A GeoTIFF file has geographic (or cartographic) data embedded as tags within the TIFF file that are used to geo-locate the image. This is required for correct integration of the image in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other popular tools like Google Earth Pro. In the recent years, GeoTIFF has gained popularity as a visualization format among NASA HDF Earth science user communities according to the NASA data user's survey. However, the conversion from HDF to GeoTIFF is not straightforward for end users because NASA HDF data products are diverse and organized in many different ways. For example, go to http://hdfeos.org/zoo and you'll see many scripting language examples because no single script can correctly visualize all NASA HDF data. == Rationale == The HEG tool is limited to some NASA HDF-EOS2 products (no support for HDF-EOS5 products) and it is not an open-source tool. The latest GDAL (version 1.9.2 and above) is an open-source tool but it cannot handle many non-HDF-EOS NASA HDF products such as TRMM (pure HDF4) and Aquarius (pure HDF5) correctly and automatically. == Initial Goals == We'll improve GDAL to support NASA HDF products better by handling geo-location information and physical meaning of data correctly and automatically. We'll handle NASA products intelligently so novice users don't have to supply many options or figure out the details about the data products. For advanced users, we'll give a full control of accessing HDF products in many different ways so that the converted GeoTIFF file is scientifically valid and meaningful. We aim to provide command line tools first and evolve them into a GUI tool. == Current Status == We're looking for developers and sponsors. === Meritocracy === We will discuss the milestone and the future plan in an open forum. We
