Open ADP lacks a mosaicing module. Georectification process needs a w option, like registration has, that will dump data directly onto the disk. This ...

Screen Tabs Here are my notes on what I think needs to be present in the configurator. You might find ElectronicFootlocker a useful crossreference. BobKrzaczek ...

WASP WaspTerrapix A description of the Terrapix (VNIR) camera used in WASP WaspIndigo A description of the Indigo (IR) cameras used in WASP WaspCameraCalibrations ...

Example results Here are some sample images in ENVI format with registration transformation results from Sam's code. ortholwir 2049s.hdr: ortholwir 2049s.hdr ...

Table of Contents Introduction The Bayer Pattern is used to turn a pan chromatic CCD array into a color sensitive CCD array. The way this is done is that each of ...

Bayer Decoding Techniques Notes for IBM Initial development tasks should target the WaspTerrapix camera subsystem. We have several years of flight with this camera ...

All boresight angles are in the format: Cameranameomegaphikappa 2007 Flying Season After camera repair beginning on 7/4/2007 flight VNIR 9.10420 arc min 19.7116 ...

A long time ago, I mentioned that ACE and most of TAO build and work under OS X. Finding myself rewriting and rebuilding some WASP ADP software, and wanting to test ...

JasonFaulring 20 Dec 2007 ImageCompressionSDKSourceCode3.3Setup 20070509.zip: libecwj2 3.3

Building OSSIM OSSIM is a powerful open source geospatial image processing package that builds under just about any modern platform. OSSIM provides several useful ...

Overview CAMMS airborne component Quasonix air to ground RF link DGX CAMMS image processor and network device GDP ground based adaptation of ...

WASP (v1) ADP Controller Code Review Overview Although the rest of the ADP is a distributed set of objects communicating via CORBA, the ADP Controller is different ...

Color Balancing General Notes Typically, when processing color imagery, there is a required adjustment to the "raw" colors of an image to produce more aesthetically ...

This document is an attempt at formalizing the computing overhead costs for a CIS research group with significant software development interests, such as LIAS. Please ...

Is there any support yet in RSI's IDL? PatrickStein 24 Mar 2005 Nope. Nor will there be. As of a meeting between me, DIRS, RSI, and others in May, 2005, they ...

Darcs can be downloaded via their website, in binary form for most machines. I was using it on my OS X 10.4 PowerBook G4 1.67ghz, as well as on a OS X 10.4 PowerMacintosh ...

dcraw is a free utility for converting raw Bayer CFA encoded imagery into color RGB. It supports a range of Bayer CFA decoding algorithms; because it is newer and ...

DCS Web Tools User Guide This user guide covers routine use of the DCS tools provided on the web for General Investigators and SSMOC staff. Introduction to the Data ...

Demonstrations and Collections of Data for Presentation GinnaFlight January 18, 2007 flight over the Ginna nuclear plant LiasStorageLayer Overview of ...

The "electronic footlocker" (a term coined by Mike Richardson) will be one or more directories loaded onto the ADP that support a flight. This topic will define the ...

This topic is a collection of notes on how to fix the addresses of various CORBA objects to a specific location on the network. There are situations for WASP that ...

The GeoServer Project From their website: http://geoserver.sourceforge.net/html/index.php The GeoServer project is a full transactional Java (J2EE) implementation ...

HarveyRhody 09 Aug 2005 GeoVault is an image data manager product from Leica Geosystems (LGGI). http://gis.leica geosystems.com/Products/geovault/default.asp We are ...

ADP Movies ADPGui shore vnir FULL.mov is 300 MB, 11:47, from the mouth of the bay, up over to the plant, and back over land ADPGui shore vnir TRIMMED ...

Just place your new event at the top of this list, and it will automatically appear in the calendars above. Visit CalendarPlugin for details on the Event Syntax used ...

Table 1: Indigo JPG compression times and sizes Quality Time (seconds) Size (kb) 5 0.160 29.9 10 0.165 46.7 20 0.168 74.3 ...

As of August 2005, the Leica distribution is still a little iffy in terms of what it delivers. Obtaining It It comes as a single zip file. Unpacking it will yield ...

Iris This is the HP Color LaserJet located in Colleen's office area. OS X If you haven't already done this before, you'll need to add some software to your system ...

Various emails, queries, and texts being written in support of ISSI . I'll dress this page up later; right now, I just want to focus on getting information into ...

This is the text we're considering for use in the ISSI proposal. The first version of this doc presents the initial text written by HarveyRhody. This second version ...

Notes on Kepler pennington.pdf: presentation on SEEK and Kepler My take on this presentation is that there are Bio folks who really wish they had a system that lets ...

LIAS Database Architecture Overview Patrick Stein stein@cis.rit.edu 2006 03 28 Preview Shot Block Diagram Major Pieces Database Server (Java) Database ...

LIAS Data Architecture Database Access Language I wrote a small language that I use to generate the database access classes. At the moment, it's line based ASCII ...

The Larch image database uses !PostgreSQL as its backend. In order to deploy Larch, !PostgreSQL must be installed on some kind of high availability machine and configured ...

LIAS Data Description Machine readable description of data. The intention is to have a way to describe data so that a thin library in an application can read the ...

LIAS Data Indexing xref: WaspDataFormats We need to track data items (example: frame 360 from the visible camera of WASP taken at 2:23:23pm on June 15th, 2005). We ...

This topic hosts the discussion on the database platform on which we host the LiasArchitecture. Note: you should definitely review LarchDataIndexing to see what ...

LarchFSIdea So, here's an idea. We want some way to query specific attributes of meta data from an object as well as the get the whole blob as well as get just parts ...

Data Sometimes Is Part Of A Set Suppose you do some search on Google about how to use the Crypto package in java. Often, in searches like this, the actual Google ...

What Is Your Epsilon Suppose the user's only interested in data that was taken at 10,000 feet. Well, the user doesn't really mean 10,000 feet. He means within some ...

Data Is Finer Grained Than Documents Consider Google's task. Google has to index every document on the web. That's fairly honerous. But, indexing means that they ...

There Is No Global Keywords Standard So, with a LarchDataDescription, you'd like to be able to say: "Here's a blob. Here's it's data descriptor. When was this data ...

Some Data Is Hard To Describe This is a challenge to overcome in making a LarchDataDescription language. Some data is fuzzy. For example, if you have to query a web ...

LIAS Architecture Hurdles LarchHurdleFineGrainData How to handle fine grain (possibly for sale) data LarchHurdleDataSets How to handle data that belongs ...

Notes from meetings 2005 03 16 through 2005 03 18 Here's the whiteboard in Harvey's office from the three days of design meetings we had. It's likely they are only ...

Just notes I was taking as we talked... Discussion about Kepler proposal "Technology enabled science" really good idea, but rest of presentation's screenshots ...

LIAS Architecture Meeting 2005 03 31 We talked a bit more about the Kepler Project. It's very Java centric. We had much discussion about steering clear of tying ourselves ...

Meeting 2005 04 28 The Bob Kremins thing is going to use some computer vision stuff to operate. "Engineering notebook" paradigm. Kepler fits with this a great deal ...

Lias Architecture Meeting 2005 05 05 Let's not get too bogged down in how all the searches are going to go, just yet. Even just rudimentary searching of notebooks ...

Meeting 2005 05 12 Went over the "High Level Requirements" in ScientistsNotebookParadigm. Questionable whether people will actually want others to annotate their ...

LIAS Architecture Meeting 2005 06 02 talked about XPath versus XLink as I described in SNEntryXML. PatrickStein will look over Monotone for comparison to ...

LIAS Architecture Meeting 2005 06 16 discussion of url http://maps.google.com/maps?sll 43.130829, 77.653988 sspn 0.037720,0.051098 hl en maps.google.com /url ...

LIAS Data Architecture Meeting 2005 06 23 Discussed Pedigrees and Process tracking Don't get too bogged down on Process tracking yet... K.I.S.S. ...

Lias Data Architecture Meeting 2005 07 06 WASP going into the plane again today make sure to look over the Geospatial Metadata standards again First ...

LIAS Architecture Overview The components to be built from the ground up are: LarchIndexer s which keep track of information used for efficient searching ...

LIAS Data Architecture Prototype For each of the RIT components in the above diagram, I will briefly describe the current capabilities, the current shortcomings, and ...

Larch Schedule Currently, in no particular order. Job Depends Component Description ~Days Effort Percent Complete 0.1 Various Convert ...

This next bit is mostly thinking out loud. I'm putting it here so that I don't lose track of it. I'd welcome your comments and criticisms. But, you also shouldn ...

Lias Architecture Overarching Theme ScientistsNotebookParadigm ScientistsNotebookExample Dream Scenario You are scientist Dr. Q. R. Ius. You are pulling ...

Various documents we're considering or already writing for publication. Wasp System Description and Overview Who: DonMckeown and JasonFaulring Summary: ...

Available Information Software Development BuildingAceTaoOnOSX How to build ACE and TAO under Mac OS X. This is "beta" quality software. BuildingAceTaoOnSolaris ...

% LIAS Storage Layer Concepts and Design BobKrzaczek 2008 Jun 09 Goals No Special Protocols or Software Required Basic Access From a Web Browser ...

NURI Projects The document below is a primer to get the user started with calculating the exterior orientation of an aerial image over the RIT campus utilizing Imagine ...

Libferris Project The Libferris Project is here: http://witme.sourceforge.net/libferris.web/ This is related to the LarchFSIdea. It presents a file system type ...

Compressing LIDAR Data This page will discuss the results of various tests and attempts to reduce the size of observed LIDAR data, with hopes of finding a solution ...

Wasp ADP GUI ADP is a distributed system Decoupled from the control system Can be started and stopped independantly GUI can be on any machine ...

Written for the Mar 22 LIAS Seminar on Llama Gui. code { color: #333300; } pre { color: #333300; } tt { color: #333300; } Llama Gui Llama GUI .ScottLawrence ...

Metadata Catalog Project The project URL is: http://www.isi.edu/~deelman/MCS/ They've developed a Grid service for metadata management. Their first paper on their ...

I noticed on the last collection done during the 2007 collection season that the MISI high speed D/A computers were having random data drop issues. After a couple ...

.sect { clear: both } .pic { float: right; text align: center; width: 300px } .pic img { display: block; align: center } .pic p { margin: 0; font style: italic } ...

MogileFS Just ran across the MogileFS they use it over at LiveJournal. My initial reaction was "a filesystem written by LJ? Oh, swell ." But, on reading it, it actually ...

Move Dates Current best estimate is "by the end of January", due to problems with certification of the fire alarm system. Previously Jan 16, due to ...? Previously ...

!MySQL is a popular and widely available database system. It's home page is http://www.mysql.com/ Interesting Note its licensing is a thorn in the side of some developers ...

Amazon: A Data Driven Company Amazon is way nutty with data. They have buckets and buckets of it. They've got more than 10 million customers. They've got more than ...

Collaborative Systems (U of Washington CSE Colloquium 2004) So, I was hoping that this talk would be right up our alley.... how do we help Scientists work with each ...

Online Geospatial Data Sources This talk centered mostly on mining web sites with phone book and property tax information combined with vector data for roads and bodies ...

Open Archive Initiative The Open Archive Initiative is pretty much what it sounds like. Important stuff from them: Protocol for Metadata Harvesting http://www ...

The !OpenGIS standards are managed by the Open Geospatial Consortium. Their homepage is http://www.opengeospatial.org/ The !OpenGIS standards are at http://www.opengeospatial ...

The Ours2 Project From their freshmeat page: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ours2/ OURS2 consists of two modules, the DWFMS and the MTBI. The DWFMS allows ...

We're going to try developing some of our papers and proposals online. I'm guessing that it might be easier to comment on and develop a proposal collaboratively, rather ...

Philyra This is the Phaser 5500DN located just outside of Jason and Krem's offices. OS X You do not need to install any special software to access this printer from ...

!PostGres? What's that? You must mean PostgreSQL. BobKrzaczek 26 Jul 2005

!PostgreSQL is a popular and widely available database server. It's home page is http://www.postgresql.org/ !PostgreSQL is released under the BSD license, making it ...

Here is a list of all presentations available for reference over the web. We make this available reference by attendees; there's a good deal of information, contextual ...

Utilizing a Condor Cluster to do Batch Ortho Rectification with OSSIM I should first mention that it only makes sense to take advantage the Condor cluster for processing ...

Presentations Preliminary Summary of Power Plants for ICE rev3.ppt: Power station summary for ICE project Images BC Cobb plant: HarveyRhody 25 Feb ...

Project Diary This is just an informal way to keep the team appraised of your projects and progress. We're growing, we're distributed, and we're collaborating. So ...

Project Diary 2004 This is just an informal way to keep the team appraised of your projects and progress. We're growing, we're distributed, and we're collaborating ...

Project Diary 2005 This is just an informal way to keep the team appraised of your projects and progress. We're growing, we're distributed, and we're collaborating ...

Projects CammsGdp Proof of concept integration of WASP ADP with GSI Camms ProjectDOEICE

Ptolemy Project The Ptolemy project is a project at Berkeley. Their home page is http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/ . The KeplerProject is closely affiliated ...

"Push pull" is one way for two actors (objects, functions, whatever) to communicate with each other in a system. It is best understood in comparison with the simple ...

Scientist's Notebook Annotation XML Very similar to the SNEntryXML. It may have different header information, but the rest of it should be basically identical. The ...

Scientist's Notebook Entries DB Obviously, the main thrust of the application will be the notebook entries. We need some place to store those (SNEntryXML). It needs ...

Scientist's Notebook Entry XML Things it needs to support: some header information: what notebook(s) it is part of entry dates: (creation, modification ...

Scientist's Notebook Format For Pending Online Actions If we're going to eventually support editing things offline and synching later, we'll need to track all kinds ...

Scientist's Notebook Login and Preferences DB Obviously, we need at least the minimal authentication of knowing who you are so as to distinguish which notebooks, notebook ...

Scientist's Notebook Header Info for Notebooks Obvious bits that need to be tracked in the header information for a notebook are: title creator links ...

Scientist's Notebook Preferences XML Stuff that should go in the preferences is covered in the SNLoginAndPreferencesDB. PatrickStein 19 May 2005

Scientist's Notebook Searching DBs Definitely need to have some search indexes for the text in notebook entries (SNEntriesDB) and annotations (SNAnnotationDB) the ...

Scientist's Notebook Web Front End It might be nice to have some way to browse and search notebooks outside of the application. This would be nice so that we could ...

SampleImages sample image data. SampleKMLImages sample image data in KML format. BillHoagland 24 Jun 2008

WASP RIT 2007 Thumbnail: vnir campus .25meter lias.zip: .25 Meter Resolution WASP Terrapix of the Rochester Institute of Technology WASP Airport ...

Sample image data of the Van Lare Wastewater Treatment Plant. These images were collected with the WASP airborne sensor and have been formatted using KML for viewing ...

Scientist's Notebook Application The intention is for you to be able to use a context menu in the viewer to add annotations... or to just drag n drop stuff into the ...

An example is provided by scientists notebookv1.html uploaded below. HarveyRhody 06 Jun 2005 scientists notebookv1.html: This is a generic notebook structure ...

Scientist's Notebook Paradigm The basic idea Conscientious scientists keep a notebook in which they log what they've been working on, how the work has been going ...

LIAS Seminar Series This page contains links to all of the information, and materials relating to the various seminars and discussions that the LIAS group has held ...

Here Most of these are (or will be) restricted access, due to their contents... SofiaBudget2008Task1 There Stuff that should be on the USRA SOFIA DCS wiki, but ...

Source Control Discussion: Darcs homepage: http://darcs.net documentation: http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki this page: http://tinyurl.com/9shxl Overview ...

The following is a presentation given as part of the LIAS Revision Control Discussion. Friggin' I can't upload the .key because it's a directory... and if I zip it ...

Written for the Jan 11 LIAS Seminar on source control systems. .ScottLawrence will write one for darcs and .PatrickStein will write one for monotone . Shouldn't ...

I almost desperately want to switch LIAS away from CVS. CVS has been "creaky" for years, and its limitations are finally becoming a problem instead of a mere nuisance ...

Overview Update We were accepted on 2007 May 08. Letter is included below. Abstract submitted: 2007 Feb 26 19:53 EST. This included final changes ...

SDSC Storage Resource Broker Project The project URL is: http://www.sdsc.edu/srb/ It claims to be a uniform interface to the heterogenous data resources indexed with ...

This page will eventually have links to all of the research done by students. It will include old as well as current projects, links to presentations, theses, images ...

Configuration information for accessing common resources in the LIAS group from your system. PhilyraConfig Using philyra , the Phaser 5500 outside of Jason ...

Commands tagged with osx are run on a Mac OS X system. Commands tagged with win are run on a Windows XP system using Cygwin . If you don't have Cygwin , get ...

Unidata LDM Project From their site: http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/ldm/index.html The Unidata Local Data Manager (LDM) is a collection of cooperating ...

M3500 ICD 081504.doc: DRS E3500 Interface Manual E3500 Digital Output InfoManual.pdf: DRS E3500 Serial Communications Protocol JasonFaulring 20 Jul 2007

XCL U1000 Manual.pdf: Sony XCL U1000 Camera Technical Manual cinegon compact 14 12mm.pdf: Schneider 12mm Lens on Pan Camera JasonFaulring 20 Jul 2007

Here is some of the spectral response information for some of the filters used for the WASP LT Spectral Cameras Response of the various Bandpass filters currently ...

xclx700 v500techm.pdf: Sony XCL V500 Technical Manual cinegon compact 14 8mm.pdf: Schneider 8mm Lens on Spectral Cameras Spectral Band Pass Filters Currently Available ...

Note Yep, this topic is officially out of date. The interfaces and design, in particular, are migrating to CVS and noweb (literate programming). I still want to hear ...

This is the technical portion of the meeting we held with the US Forest Service, Leica, GSI, IAGT, and others. It introduced the Airborne Data Processor, explained ...

Note: This topic is out of date, and does not accurately reflect the current WASP ADP implementation. It's kept around solely for its historical reference value. ...

At the moment, this is specific to accessing the WASP ADP software tree. In the future, I'll generalize it to cover other projects we're maintaining. Basic CVS Information ...

2007 Flight Season Calibration Reports vnir 2007 report.txt: VNIR (Terrapix) Calibration Report 2007 swir 2007 report.txt: SWIR Calibration Report 2007 ...

Because of the changes to the strategies we use to publish and locate objects on the network, I've adopted some changes in the aid library that affect our command ...

I've done some ACE/TAO benchmarking on fake Indigo and Terrapix data. I'll flesh this out later with more details, but here's a brief summary. vulcan, Indigo Data ...

Intro The WASP Airborne Data Processor generates two classes of data for each flight. Raw Data When the WASP software is started, the system controller creates a ...

In a typical WASP scenario: WASP lands, and its main flight drive is removed and taken to your ground processing location. There, it is mounted onto hercules ...

WASP Finder 2000 Screenshots Overview The WASP Finder 2000 is a standalone application in the Wasp ADP that uses positional information to display information ...

This topic tracks the conversion of the fire detection algorithm developed by YingLi into WASP software by XiaofengFan (Sam). CVS Rather than attaching versions of ...

JasonFaulring 24 Sep 2004 Current Hardware Interaction General Overview Hardware control for operating the current non ADP WASP system is buried in with the Visual ...

#drop { padding: 1px 3px; float: left } WASP , the Wildfire Airborne Sensor Program, is a sensor platform that can identify wildfires as small as six inches across ...

As a part of the WASP system, these cameras are nominally fired every 4.7 seconds, in sync with the WaspTerrapix camera. They are sometimes run without the Terrapix ...

2006 Flight Season Reports Camera1 2006 report.txt: camera1 2006 report Camera2 2006 report.txt: Camera2 2006 report Camera3 2006 report.txt: Camera3 ...

Telecon number: 866.603.2146 access code 4538594 August 18, 2004 Installers are mostly done. Files are placed onto the target system "mostly" the way they ...

I am working with absorption spectra of algae and whatever else was in the water. I have two samples of absoption spectra. What I want to do is run hydrolight with ...

September 8, 2004 Next Flight Date: Backup: Actuator is installed Plan to test gimbal and camera sweeping Civil Air Patrol ...

Initial documentation on the WASP netmap file format and support. See FixingObjectAddresses for background on why this exists. Location and Usage My intent is to ...

Wasp Network vulcan Primary 1000bT 10.0.0.4 Applanix Secondary 100bT 192.168.0.4 RIPCom badger le0 10bT 192.168.0.1 RIPCom ...

12:15 Before we began testing, during initial setup: "accidentally" reproduced problem by attempting to use Remote Desktop connection from the trailer to vulcan (in ...

WaspFileTranslation techniques for file format changes immediately after a flight

Since the goal here is to simply visualize the data and not perform any hard science on it, I'm gearing this work towards visualization from a web browser. Registration ...

For the time being, this will be the simple template for WASP presentations. I'll dress it up later. Slide of COPYRIGHT by the contributing authors

If you're designing software development for WASP, list it here. Data Acquisition The in flight software system that collects and processes WASP data for delivery ...

As a part of the WASP system, this camera is nominally fired every 4.7 seconds, in sync with the WaspIndigo cameras. It is sometimes run without the Indigo cameras ...

JasonFaulring 08 Sep 2004 Here are some suggestions for features that should be included in the graphical user interface: Necessary Items Screen Size The resolution ...

April 3, 2006 Moved things around in c:/temp so that we don't lose previous releases. cd c:/temp mkdir Leica 2006Jan04 mv WASP Leica 2006Jan04 mkdir Leica 2006April03 ...

TWiki's LIAS web

Pardon the dust while we reorganize here. All the previous topics are still present, nothing has been lost; see WebIndex for details. We're "starting over" with a ...