[SoC] GSoC 2010 , Ecological Toolbox

Massimo Di Stefano massimodisasha at yahoo.it
Fri Apr 9 09:00:55 EDT 2010


Hi all

i'm intersted to propone myself as student for the GSoc 2010 :-)

the idea is dedicated to develop a Tool for Ecological Toolbox, 
the aim of the project will be to provide geostatistical capabilities inside Qgis.    

This summer i'll go to the WHOI [1] institute in the USA to work as "guest student" 
At WHOI i'll work in a team that develops optical and acoustic tools for benthic habitat characterization. 
We will develop the capability for an image-based GIS database for temporal/spatial queries 
along with software for image processing, segmentation and classification of organisms 
and substrate composition from a rapidly growing library of images [2]. 

The data will be processed using and experimenting variouse interpolation tecnique like kriging 
and method to quantify the accuracy of the interpolation method.

[1] : http://www.whoi.edu/

[2] : http://habcam.whoi.edu

The main aim of the project will be to develop a tool in Python to perform data interpolation based on different kriging tecniques.
The tool will be based on a gui (as Qgis Python plug-in) to allow the user to choose between different kriging algorithms,
set parameters and input data to perform the calculation, adding the ability to store the results in a relational database (postgis) 
or also on more portable file-based data storage  as spatialite, shape-file and kml. 
The project will also have an accuracy evaluator to check the interpolation resutls and analize its error.

R seems to be a good choice but i’m also impressed by : HPGL (http://hpgl.sourceforge.net/)   
so the first step will be to evaluate and compare this two computational environment - choice will be done on speed and ability to handle huge dataset

This tool will be easily  integrated in Planet-Sasha (GSoC 2009), it will be released finally 
as a stable cross-platform tool (i can perform testing on Linux, MacOSX and Windows), 
to provide a fast and easy way to visualize data in a 3d gis-environment.

for further details and timeline i published the application on the GSoC site.

thanks to All, any comments is really welcome.

cheers,

Massimo.
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