<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Sounds like a great idea to me. I think the OSGeo community tend to be very vector focussed and an event like this could open (excuse pun) peoples’ eyes to what is possible with OpenRasterData and Open Source tools. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would attend and vote for OSGeo to sponsor in some way</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Aug 2016, at 22:27, AJ Graham <<a href="mailto:alastair.graham@gmail.com" class="">alastair.graham@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi everyone<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am looking to organise a one day meeting scheduled for Jan/Feb 2017 about raster processing. I want the focus to be on the use of open source software to process open data, specifically open satellite image datasets such as those from the Sentinel and Landsat missions, and other open raster datasets such as LiDAR derived elevation etc. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm sending this email to </div><div class="">a) try and gauge what sort of interest there might be for such a meeting, </div><div class="">b) see whether anyone is interested enough to want to help with the organisation :-) and </div><div class="">c) to find out if there are any specific topics that the community would like to see included. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have my ideas (see next paragraph) but it would be great to try and put on an event that addresses the needs and interests of the community.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Personally I'd like to see some beginner talks/practicals on open raster data (and satellite data in particular) moving on to more advanced topics as the day progresses e.g. data dissemination, infrastructure etc. A mix of practitioners and developers would be really useful, along with a mix of use-cases and software development in the talks and demos. For instance, there are a load of Python libraries etc that have been developed for raster processing and it would be great to have some of those discussed in detail.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyway, if this sort of meeting would be of interest then please reply to let me know. </div><div class="">Also feel free to ping back any comments and questions on this</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks</div><div class="">Alastair</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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