2007 April Meeting in Mammoth

Agenda

• Tues. April 3
  • MODSCAG algorithm issues
• Wed. April 4
  • MODSCAG processing at UCSB
    • automate processing so no manual intervention required
      • for near-real time processing
      • for Web based requests
      • Painter says that his MODSCAG scripts are very close to being fully automated
        • we did not resolve any code sharing issues (Configuration Management)
          • if MODSCAG is integrated into the EIL automatic processing, there will most certainly be changes to scripts
            • how will changes be made at UCSB that will not be destroyed when updates to MODSCAG are made?
            • Frew says that Peter should setup a Subversion repository
              • code running at EIL must be checked into Subversion before it can run here
      • two kinds of requests
        • ROIs that we current have defined
        • ROIs that we do not have currently defined
      • clusterizing processing
        • currently one day runs on one cluster node
        • each spectral library for one day should run on a node
  • space-time interpolation (using MATLAB)
    • automate processing
    • need for database system to keep track of products and files
    • how propagate to cluster
    • Dozier wants Peter to create an SQL Server db that contains info he needs to find snow granules from Matlab
      • i.e. field, ROI, time, URL
      • can use the Python package 'pymssql' for this (http://pymssql.sourceforge.net/)
  • MODSCAG product distribution
    • browsing existing products
      • Dozier asks if we need a WMS for this
    • request additional products
    • any GUI should be extremely simple, Dozier gives the example of http://patrol.mammothmountain.com/ as a useful UI that allows access to much info with simple navigation
    • Dozier wants us to try out World Winds (http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/) for distributing the snow products
      • this is a Windows only solution
      • we all need to start using Windows komputers
        • Painter agrees wholeheartedly with this proposal
        • we are still contractually obligated to use Windows for Microsoft support of SnowREASoN
        • Microsoft funding may be available for MEaSUREs so we should begin making the change now
    • for current ROIs
    • for new ROIs
  • Microsoft involvement
    • Tony Hey (MS VP for high-performance computing) is interested in funding
    • Catharine van Ingen (MS research) is interested in helping

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