New Media Research Institute

The 2008 DIAL workshop will be held in conjunction with the ESIP Federation Summer Meeting.

When: Tuesday, July 15, 2008

View the: ESIP Meeting Page

Who can attend: Please contact Bruce Caron [bruce AT NMRI.org] for information about attending this workshop.

This ONE DAY workshop will cover the basics of how to apply DIAL technologies to develop stand-alone, data-rich software applications. The DIAL technology is described below:

DIAL description

The workshop will cover the code resources that are available and the remaining coding required to customize the authoring environment for your data distribution needs.

The Morning Session will cover an overview of the technology, and hands on with existing modules and prototype applications. The Afternoon Session will be a "Create an Application" from parts supplied, and a discussion about individual needs for further shared code and GUI resources.

For more information please contact Bruce Caron [bruce AT NMRI.org]

The DIAL NO2 Data Desktop Explorer is an outcome of the NASA funded DIAL ACCESS Project (NNX06AB08A).

DATA Resources: Courtesy of NASA and the EPA

DATA Resource Services: Courtesy of NASA AURA Science team at Goddard, and the DATAFed REASON project.

Viewer Programming in IDL and Lingo/JavaScript: Martin Landsfeld

User Interface Design: Bruce Caron and Martin Landsfeld

User Interface Graphics: Hajime Narahara

User Interface Usabillity: Bruce Caron

The Explorer was built at the New Media Research Center of the New Media Studio in Santa Barbara, CA.

The Data Desktop Explorer uses Data from NASA and the EPA.

The OMI NO2 data sets are from the NASA Goddard OMI science team:

EOS Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) OMNO2 Level 3 Data

The EPA AQS datasets are from the DataFed service:

AQS_H

Information about these datasets are available from the websites listed above.

The NO2 Desktop Data Explorer Prototype will allow NASA and EPA professionals to browse the available NO2 data for the US and request the features that decision makers need to use these data in their workplaces.

The Data Explorer uses OMI NO2 data from the Goddard Data Pool, and updated data from the DataFed. In the future these will be suplemented by other NO2 column data (GOME, etc.) and EPA ground sensor data sets (to be determined).

The Client Side Technology Infusion Working Group is looking at issues of data access, analysis, and display in the world outside the Internet browser environment. Today, as it was ten years ago, probably 95% of the scientists who use NASA/NOAA (etc.) data sets do so with commercial software products such as Matlab, IDL, ENVI, or ARCgis.

Started July 4, the Zaca fire burned for nearly two months before it was contained on September 2, 2007. Nearby Santa Barbara City residents watched and waited while this, the largest fire in the history of the county (240,207 acres total), moved ever closer to the inhabited front country. As firefighters battled, NASA's MODIS Active Fire Mapping Program captured the active burn area several times a day. At the end of August, with towering heat clouds in the sky and ash covering the ground in Santa Barbara City, ACCESS DIAL project technical lead, Marty Landsfeld, noticed satellite data images in the local papers and determined that an animation of the progression of the fire would help inform the population. In one afternoon, using the DIAL technology, he was able to assemble an animation of 104 MODIS data images, including their date and time information. On August 28, the Zaca Fire NASA Data Animation was hosted on the web at NASA Zaca fire data animation.

The DIAL project is working with the ESIP Air Quality Working Group to develop model smart clients to access, visualize, and analyze air quality data. If you have an air quality data access need, please email Bruce Caron at bruce_at_tnms.org.

The DIAL Project 2007 Workshop was held at the Summer ESIP Federation meeting in Madison Wisconsin. Participants from NASA labs, universities, and museums learned how DIAL authoring tools can put real data into easy to use software applications.

The DIAL 2007 Workshop Image Gallery shows the group hard at work.