Who I am?

• SW Developer
• Environmental Scientist
• Open Source Advocate

Computer Science

Bridging the Gap

Environmental Science

Day Job - NOAA

Fun Job - CUGOS

Maps are layers

Types of Data

Raster and Vector

Raster - Images

"Mega Pixels"

4608 X 3456 = 15,925,248

16 million pixels!

Vector - Shapes

Shapes, Shapes, Shapes

Combine to make maps!

The Deepwater Horizon experience

Our project...

• Environmental

• Response

• Management

• Application

DWH - By the numbers

• 11 men perished
• 200+ million gallons of oil spilled
• 580+ miles of shoreline oiled
• 1.70+ million gallons dispersants applied
• 400+ controlled burns
• 4+ million feet of containment boom and 9+ million feet of sorbent boom

ERMA Shines as COP

• Less than 48 hours to deploy
• Scalable – 1400+ response users, 16,000+ layers (DWH)
• 45,000+ layers today
• Nimble – over 850 code commits in DWH first year
• Public ERMA – over 20 million hits in 24 hours!

Common Operational Picture (COP)

So how/why does this matter to you?

The nuts and bolts might not...

the philosophy does

Focus on small teams of experts

Leverage open tools,

but own the deployment

• This gives us the benefit of a large community of developers
• This gives us the freedom modify and adapt when needed

Utilize open data

and open standards

Doing more with less

(This is a good investment for NOAA)

Now the fun stuff!!!

David Shean "Ice Man" http://psc.apl.washington.edu/wordpress/people/students/david-shean/

"Google Guys"

Hardware options...

Fully DIY

Big Crazy Scary

I choose low cost RTF (Ready To Fly) and then Hack It! Phantom FC40 (~$450)

Flytrex Data Logger (~$50)

"The Rig"

Gimbal

Where is it OK to fly https://www.mapbox.com/drone/no-fly/

Video taken with my rig...

Structure From Motion (SFM) 200 of these

Load image batches

Matching

Visual SFM Sparse Point Cloud

AgiSoft Sparse Point Cloud

Dense Point Cloud

Textured Mesh

More Examples

Flying Brightwater Treatment Plant

Flight Paths

Photoscan SFM Rendering

Palouse Falls WA

Example Image

SFM Output

Grain Silo WA

Example Image

SFM Output

Chewy

School

Farm

Compare (PhotoScan vs VSFM)

Panoramic image stitching

... as good as Google gets

AgiSoft

OSM data creation / Web Maps

QGIS Warper

gdal2tiles.py --profile=mercator -z 1-22 yourmap.tif outputfolder

http://langleywa.github.io/gisdata/tiles/langley-2nd-street-2014/21/335500/1368498.png

Tiles into your App!

Edit in OSM http://ideditor.com/ https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=id#map=19/48.03979/-122.40668 http://langleywa.github.io/gisdata/tiles/langley-2nd-street-2014-tms/{z}/{x}/{y}.png

The Future

Automation (OpenDroneMap)

OpenDroneMap working hard!

DEM's

3D Print Example (Chris Schmidt)

Point Cloud

Mesh

Print Prep

Print!

My Story

* Develper turned Environmental Scientist *

* Many turn from Science to Development *

Key is that we all meet in the middle!

Open Source GIS is a

great path to bridge the gap