<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Greetings dear members,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white;">I would like to develop an algorithm that uses remote geographic sensing data </span>to automatically identify, highlight, and measure rooftops and buildings surfaces and contours using Geospatial data. My preference is to overlay the results on one of the existing map providers such as Google Earth/maps or Bing . </span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font style="font-size: 13px;"><font color="black"> </font><font color="black"><u></u><u></u></font></font></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font style="font-size: 13px;"> My aim is to get the following outputs from the proposed model:<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></font></p></div><ul type="disc" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font style="font-size: 13px;"><font color="black">Accurately highlighted and identified rooftops on Google maps (using geo sensing data, elevation? and </font><u></u><u></u></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font style="font-size: 13px;"><font color="black">Property Address or GPS coordinate.<u></u><u></u></font><u></u><u></u></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font style="font-size: 13px;"><font color="black">Surface and square footage available for solar power generation including the position of the property(N-S or E-W). At the exact surface of the south facing portion of the roof.<u></u><u></u></font><u></u><u></u></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font style="font-size: 13px;"><font color="black">Integrate sun tool in google maps to calculate shading for each building.</font><u></u><u></u></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="black" style="font-size: 13px;">Total surface/square footage of the roof. </font></li></ul><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font style="font-size: 13px;"><br></font></div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font style="font-size: 13px;">I would appreciate your guidance on the following:</font></div><ul><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Any individual developers or companies active in this area who would be willing to undertake this challenge</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">View on technical do-ability of the </font>project…</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 13px;">What free geospatial data is available/needed to build the model and who the providers are? (I understand that US cleared higher resolution imagery for domestic )</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font style="font-size: 13px;">An idea about the overall cost for such a model.</font></li></ul></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Best regards,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Sid </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div></div></body></html>