[OSGeo-UK] Raster meeting

[Jo Cook]

Hi,

I'm in agreement with Steven here. My vote/plea would be that there is at
least one talk/demo aimed at real beginners to raster processing.

Regards

Jo

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> I would attend and vote for OSGeo to sponsor in some way
>
>
> ______
> Steven
>
>
> On 20 Aug 2016, at 22:27, AJ Graham <alastair.graham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone
>
> 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.
>
> I'm sending this email to
> a) try and gauge what sort of interest there might be for such a meeting,
> b) see whether anyone is interested enough to want to help with the
> organisation :-) and
> c) to find out if there are any specific topics that the community would
> like to see included.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Anyway, if this sort of meeting would be of interest then please reply to
> let me know.
> Also feel free to ping back any comments and questions on this
>
> Thanks
> Alastair
>
>
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