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Tommy JasminUniversity of Wisconsin

SSEC/CIMSS18 Jul 2012

About me

http://metobs.ssec.wisc.edu/aoss/cameras/hawkcam-flash.html

SSEC HawkCam

Geospatial in my words

• Add “when” and “where” to data• Find and retrieve that data• Visualize and analyze that data

* Turning Earth-located data into useful information

Ok, but what’s “data”?

• Almost anything, since we’re all walking GPSs, generating data

• Firehose analogy 10x today

Even simpler…

“Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things.”

- Waldo Tobler

The First Geospatial Analysis Case

London cholera epidemic, 1854, cause found by Dr. John Snow

Finding Bin Laden

GerryMandering

Gang Turf

Foreclosures

Find less distressed and high-amenity neighborhoods to minimize cost

A peek into Netflix queues

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/10/nyregion/20100110-netflix-map.html

And of course Remote Sensing

NorthEast India as viewed by VIIRS, RGB generated by McIDAS-V

Suomi NPP Day/Night Band

North Dakota oil boom – 30 April 2012

Hurricane Wilma

Hurricane Ike

In Summary…

• X-Over! MetaData, Interop, Doc, etc…

• Everybody equal, Everybody participates, NO dumb questions

• Let’s solve some problems together

A peek ahead #1, Morphing MetaData

• From metadata doc to tagging

• From catalog portals to search engines and social networks

• From proprietary data to crowd-sourced

A peek ahead #2, Interoperability

• As Geospatial data creation and distribution becomes easier across various technology and platforms, Interoperability increases dramatically in importance.

• Interoperability standards like OGC become increasingly vital.

A peek ahead #3, SDIs

A spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is a data infrastructure implementing a framework of geographic data, metadata, users, and tools that are interactively connected in order to use spatial data in an efficient and flexible way.