OSGeo-Live 7.0 has been released! For this release, geospatial applications have been updated to their latest stable release. OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual Machine based upon Ubuntu Linux (version 12.04 LTS). OSGeo-Live is pre-configured with a wide variety of robust open source geospatial software. All applications can be trialled without installing anything on your computer, simply by booting the computer from a DVD or USB drive, or running in a Virtual Machine environment. Each featured package is accompanied by both a publication quality one page descriptive summary and a short tutorial on how to get started using it. more >
Three new Journal Articles on Sensor Plug & Play
I’m happy to announce that we got three new articles accepted for publication:
- Diaz, L., A. Bröring, D. McInerney, G. Liberta & T. Foerster (2013, accepted): Publishing Sensor Observations into Geospatial Information Infrastructures: A Use Case in Fire Danger Assessment. Environmental Modelling & Software. [paper]
In this article, an approach is presented to improve the registration of sensors and the publication of their observations via the Web Processing Service (WPS) and the Sensor Observation Service (SOS) interface. Therefore, those services are combined with our Sensor Interface Descriptor (SID) concept. The approach is evaluated by applying the developed approach to the example of integrating in-situ weather observations into the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) for assessing fire danger in Spain.
Welcome Google Summer of Code 2013 students!
52°North is pleased to welcome the following students to work with us closely this summer on four Google Summer of Code projects!
- Mohammad Ahmed Hamed Yakoub (from Cairo, Egypt) will tackle the ” Open Sensor Search” project (Sensor Web Community) and implement a one stop shop for finding sensor data.
- Khalid Alqinyah (from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) will spend the summer working on the “52°North Processing Server Admin Interface” (Geoprocessing Community) and transfer the current HTML/JSP approach to a modern and flexible web application framework.
- Patrick Noble (from San Luis Obispo, CA, USA) will make seismic data from a variety of different sources available through the SOS in the “Seismic Data Modeling in SOS” (Sensor Web Community) project.
- Jinlong Yang (From State College, PA, USA) will implement and/or improve generic classes, methods and tools for handling and analyzing large-scale trajectory data with R in the “Trajectory Analysis in R” (Geostatistics Community).
enviroCar crowd-funding initiative – spread the word!
enviroCar invites you to use your car’s sensor data for exploring the effect of your driving style on environmental aspects such as fuel consumption, CO2 production, or noise emission. All you need is an OBD2 adapter (available at Amazon starting from 18,-€) and our enviroCar App.
enviroCar enables you to share your car’s sensing data. With your data you can contribute to better urban planning and smarter cities and answer questions such as:
- what are the actual spatial characteristics of fuel consumption in your city?
- how to optimize traffic planning to reduce emissions effectively?
- what to learn from average speed maps?
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