[gdal-dev] Re: Wildfire mapping

[Ben Discoe]

I'd add that wildfire simulation and visualization has been done on a Open
stack, such as:

"Application for planning assistance suppression forest fires based on free
software."
2008, in Spanish.
http://dugi-doc.udg.edu/bitstream/10256/1182/1/VicedoLinares_Art.pdf
gvSIG, PostGIS, VTP (GDAL, OpenSceneGraph) etc.

-Ben

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:gdal-dev-
> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mark Zaller (AerialFireTech)
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:41 AM
> To: Brent Fraser; Peter Baumann
> Cc: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Re: Wildfire mapping
> 
> Peter & Brent,
> Thanks. Some of those are new to me & very interesting. [..]
> 
> On 08/16/2011 04:35 PM, Brent Fraser wrote:
> Mark,
> 
>   There are a few Open Source projects you could look into
> 
> 3D visualization environment:
>     VTP
>     WorldWind
>     OssimPlanet
> 
> Orthorectification of Video:
>     OSSIM OMAR?
> 
> Image Processing / Feature Extraction
>     OTB
>     GRASS
> 
> And I'm sure there are others.
> 
> The system you describe would be a lot of work, but it does sound
> interesting!
> 
> Best Regards,
> Brent Fraser
> 
> On 8/15/2011 10:35 PM, Mark Zaller (AerialFireTech) wrote:
> Hello, I'm pursuing a project to automatically map wildfires, and
am looking
> for people who could contribute to this.
> 
> I volunteer as an Air Attack pilot over wildfires, and have developed an
in
> cockpit Augmented Reality system that allows us to work at night and over
> smoke.