FW: SAXTA/Satella

[Ned Horning]

All,

Would someone be interested in taking a look at SAXTA and providing
feedback? It's for peer-to-peer file sharing of geocoded imagery. It's open
source and it might be nice if there was some OSGeo involvement. This has
been in the works for a few years but I think they recently got a bunch of
money to get it working. I'd like to follow what's going on but I expect
there are people who could better evaluate this than me.

For what it's worth, I think this is being funded primarily with NASA money
and interacting with these projects should help get OSGeo on NASA's radar. 

Ned 


-----Original Message-----
From: Saxta Help [mailto:SaxtaHelp at ssaihq.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 1:31 PM
To: Ned Horning
Cc: SaxtaHelp at ssaihq.com
Subject: Re: SAXTA/Satella

Hi Ned,

Thanks for you Email. Satella is the "predecessor" of SAXTA, a sort of 
proof of concept actually.  Satella has been replaced with SAXTA.
SAXTA is currently in beta test and we are currently gathering external 
user feedback to refine the functionalities to be proposed in SAXTA 
version 1. SAXTA is a very active project and while the web site home 
page has not been updated in a while, we release a new beta version 
about a week ago (http://saxta.geog.umd.edu/download.html).

Saxta rely on the idea of the scientific and education communities 
sharing satellite images among themselves. Currently the targeted 
sensors are  Landsat 7 (http://landsat.usgs.gov/index.php) and  Aster 
(http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/).  If you are interested in trying out 
the software, please let us know. We would really like to hear what you 
think of it and how we can make it better.

Bruno








Ned Horning wrote:
> Bruno,
>
> I found out about the Satella project from a colleague a few months ago
and
> am trying to get a sense for where it is going. I also see there is a
SAXTA
> project and wonder if those are one in the same. I am a member of the Open
> Source Geospatial Foundation (http://www.OSGeo.org) and I expect that
> community would be interested in learning more about this project as well
as
> plans for future development. I am also interested to see how this could
> benefit the conservation community. 
>
> I looked at the SAXTA web site but it hasn't been updated for about a year
> so I wasn't sure if the project is still active. Can you give me a brief
> overview of the current status and if there are plans to continue
> development? If it is easier, I can give you a call sometime.
>
> All the best, 
>
> Ned Horning
> Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
> American Museum of Natural History
> Central Park West @ 79th St
> New York, NY 10024
> e-mail: horning at amnh.org
> tel: 212-313-7947
> fax: 212-769-5292
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>
>
>