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NASA support has been requested in for a state of emergency so we are all trying to help as we can. We have modified our GEOSS workflows to monitor the situation in the San Diego area. Fire threats are being detected based on MODIS data and EO-1 is being tasked twice a day to image the area.

RESTful workflows implemented using OpenWFERu are being used to process the imagery to deliver the data to the first responders. First thermal imagery processed onboard the satellite has been downlinked and is available on http://eo1.geobliki.com. Higher resolution data will be available as soon as possible.

As more than 500,000 people are being evacuated and many are loosing their homes, our prayers and thoughts are with you.

Our latest video on our GEOSS use-case finally made it to YouTube.

With Many thanks to Ingo Simonis!

RESTFul OGC Web Services were a big topic at this meeting in boulder Colorado this week. OGC has formed a REST working group and many have signed up to develop potential reference implementations of RESTful OGC Services for demonstration in December at the next meeting In Italy.

But we need more volunteers for a bake-off! We are starting to reach the tipping point and this is exciting.

After several days spent at the National Academy of Sciences in DC, we finally completed the first draft of our movie to be presented at the GEO plenary in DC, and at the GEO Ministerial Summit in Cape Town, South Africa in November.

Our use-case: Wild Fire Monitoring in South Africa, is part of a pilot effort sponsored by the OGC. We still have some work to do to bring in more satellite assets (SPOT, IRS…). Some integration will also be done as part of OWS-5.

Automation is supported by workflows (OpenWFE) integrated within a Resource-Oriented Architecture, This effort will be presented in Boulder next week at the OGC Technical Committee.

The end-product allows end-users to quickly access the published data, order custom products for additional situational awareness. Mashups can be quickly visualized and shared in Mapufacture.

Thanks to John Mettraux and AJ Turner for their support.

The Ikhana unmanned vehicle took-off from NASA-DFRC / Edwards AFB at 2:34:45 PM PDT. Mission is planned for nominal 17-hour mission to fires in ID / MT / WY. Hope you are following such on live video feed at CDE or CDE-Lite (access via WRAP website at http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sge/WRAP).

Based on the filed flight-plan, we automatically generated targets of interests based on MODIS “hot pixels” with a 6nm corridor. Draper Laboratory optimized the targets based on predicted cloud coverage in the area.

As a result, ASTER and EO-1 were tasked to image CASTLE ROCK, Idaho. It will be interesting to get the raw data, process it and overlay it on the map with the UAV imagery…

The UAV will also be able to task EO-1 to take complementary imagery as needed.

The Geo-Web in action…