People are computer literate when they understand software is not a product

Who I am?

• SW Developer
• Environmental Scientist
• Open Source Advocate

Computer Science

Bridging the Gap

Environmental Science

Day Job - NOAA

Fun Job - CUGOS

The Deepwater Horizon experience

Our project...

• Environmental

• Response

• Management

• Application

What is ERMA?

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

DWH and ERMA

• Over 180 Individual Federal/State GIS Staff
• 30-40 specifically ERMA (up from 4 normally)
• 3 ERMA developers

ERMA Shines as COP

• Less than 48 hours to deploy
• Scalable – 1400+ response users, 16,000+ layers (DWH)
• 30,000+ 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

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

CUGOS "Google Guys"

Video the bikes!

Hardware options...

Fully DIY

Big Crazy Scary

I choose low cost RTF (Ready To Fly) and then Hack It!

Phantom FC40 (~$450)

FPV camera (FC40)(720p)

Canon (elph 130 16MP) downward facing (CHDK) (~$130)

Flytrex Data Logger (~$50)

CHDK

Prop Guards + Extra battery + Camera mount(~$50)

"The Rig"

Gimbal

Why is this so interesting now...

$$$$$ Cheap $$$$$

Technology is easy to use

FUN!

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

Workflow #1

... as good as Google gets

200 of these

ICE

AgiSoft

Workflow #2

QGIS Warper

MapKnitter http://mapknitter.org/

nearblack -of GTiff -setalpha -o outfile infile

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

git checkout gh-pages
git add outputfolder
git commit -m "Yes... TILE DATA"
git push

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

Workflow #3

Load image batches

Matching

Visual SFM Sparse Point Cloud

Dense Point Cloud

MeshLab

AgiSoft Sparse Point Cloud

Dense Point Cloud

Textured Mesh

More Examples

Flying Brightwater Treatment Plant

Flight Paths

Photoscan SFM Rendering

Chewy

School

Farm

Compare (PhotoScan vs VSFM)

The Future

Automation (OpenDroneMap)

OpenDroneMap working hard!

DEM's

3D Print Example (Chris Schmidt)

Point Cloud

Mesh

Print Prep

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

My Advice

Dev chops are the differentiator

My kids are learning Python...

in 1st grade!

Choose a stack and become an expert

• (os) Linux
• (database) Postgresql/PostGIS
• (render) Mapserver/Mapnik
• (cache) TileCache/TileStache
• (frontend) MapBox/Leaflet/OpenLayers

All the rest are an easy jump

Learn to code... and script...

• (backend) Shell Scripting, Python, Javascript
• (frontend) Javascript, HTML, CSS
• (code management) GIT, GitHub
• (editing) Emacs, VIM

All the rest are an easy jump

Build Cool Stuff

Come to CUGOS!!!