[Board] Advisory Board?

[Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH]

Actually, I was just proposing that geo companies would just make their
software available for testing/benchmarking/etc. We (the Army Corps of
Engineers) are willing (and have been) able to provide the infrastructure
for this testing / benchmarking / etc.

Mike

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Michael Smith

US Army Corps
Remote Sensing GIS/Center



On 9/6/12 1:29 PM, "Jeff McKenna" <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:

>Hi Mark,
>
>I like your idea to engage companies such as Digital Globe.  In fact I
>recently had a discussion with Mike Smith from the US Army Corps of
>Engineers to possibly contact larger geo companies to share resources
>for testing and data.  At that time we/I were dreaming of someone like
>ESRI providing infrastructure (software/machines) to do
>testing/benchmarking - but this is very similar to someone like Digital
>Glob providing data sets (imagine the benefit to making GDAL and our
>software projects grow).
>
>I'm a strong +1 on your idea.
>
>-jeff
>
>
>
>On 12-09-06 1:05 PM, Mark Lucas wrote:
>> I recently visited Digital Globe in Longmont Colorado and reconnected
>> with their team.  They are in the process of acquiring GeoEye and they
>> are the predominant collector of commercial satellite imagery in the
>> world.  With the combine assets they sit on, if memory serves me
>> correctly, something like 12 Billion square miles of collected imagery.
>>  Their worldview sensor will introduce high resolution spectral bands.
>> 
>> I was in several discussions about open source software, OSGeo, and
>> remote sensing in general.  They are interested in potentially providing
>> imagery data sets for testing, evaluation, and to derive new application
>> areas.  It was clear that they would like to engage with us to make some
>> of these efforts happen
>> 
>> I believe Dr Walter Scott is in the process of joining the OGC board.
>>  I've know him for over a decade, here is a writeup:
>> 
>> http://www.afcea.org/events/stratcom/11/documents/scottwalter.pdf
>> 
>> Should we consider establishing an OSGeo Advisory board made up of
>> leaders in the industry that might help advance our cause?
>> 
>> Like to hear what everyone thinks of the idea.
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> 
>
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