<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi,<br><br>I'm hoping to kick off a discussion on a possible new QGIS plugin, which may be more appropriate as a new dedicated application based on QGIS. I'd like to discuss it with any interested developers.<br><br>The program is intended to enable users to record observations from a video. <br><br>This is both live video feeds from a mobile underwater camera, and post capture from a recording. <br><br>We have real time data, including GPS via TCP ports. <br>The tool displays a high resolution seabed bathymetry hillshade raster as the background (from our on board multibeam system)<br>It receives real time "Video on, video off, still taken, platform location" data via the LAN.<br>The user is to be able to quickly record observations of substrate, morphology, anthropogenic features, animals, plants, etc. Each observation is timestamped & point
stamped.<br>The trackline represented by the points can be splined to a best fit linestring (in 5km of water, positional accuracy is not that good)<br>Recorded observations can be assigned new (additional) positions fitted to the spline.<br>Multiple runs of the same video by different or the same user are supported.<br>Embed a video controller capability for post capture (as opposed to real time) operation.<br><br>I figure a SpatialLite db, with a taxonomic database, including substrates & other types of observations would be adequate & convenient.<br><br>The UI would allow users to set up a pick list of the most likely observations, assigned to buttons, so the top 20 (say) are a simple click, without searching or keyboard use.<br><br>The application has a spatial component, hence QGIS as the enabling tool, but has a significant non-spatial requirement .<br><br><br>If anyone is interested in discussing or undertaking such a development, please
let me know.<br><br><br>Cheers,<br><br> Brent Wood<br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br></td></tr></table>