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Tug and barge going under the SF Bay Bridge
Our talks on ships at Google I/O are tomorrow.
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All the ships in the world at Google I/O
We are still in the process of getting the talk videos out, but here is a start. I'll flush out this list as the related videos are published. Google I/O 2013 - All the Ships in the World: Visualizing...
View ArticleCat nap
Cleaning out the email this morning, I ran into older images from our web cam. The rough life of our cat... we'd had him for 8 months at this point. Terrible quality with this webcam, but it was cheap...
View ArticleUK Hydrographic Office 5 minute video
Thanks to GeoGarage for linking to this 5 minute video about the UK HO.
View ArticleMassimo di Stefano - Ipython Notebook for GIS
Lightning Talk - Massimo di Stefano - Ipython Notebook from PyData on Vimeo.
View ArticleProcessing and visualizing {ship/sensor} data - the matched set
In case it wasn't clear, I'd like to re-iterate: These talks are not meant to be about ships. We want to you to think about YOUR data when watching these videos. If your data is AIS, then that's a...
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Behind the scenes at Google IO
Google I/O was a totally insane experience for me this year. I got a substantial amount of my sleep for the week on mass transit or a bean bag in the speaker prep area. I know a lot of the teams are...
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NMEA Transport, Annotate and Group (TAG) block encoding
Before I start, there are so many strange things in the NMEA specification, but this is one of my favorites: Since there is no provision for guaranteed delivery of messages and only limited error...
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Google Ocean bathymetry update - World Oceans Day
Saturday (2 days ago) was World Oceans Day. We made a small G+ post for it: Google Earth: Revealing the Ocean on World Oceans Day! Google Maps: On World Oceans Day, it's the perfect time to dive in and...
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smart phones and similar devices in the field
It's great to see that work continues at CCOM on this topic: For people who think they can never have enough monitors! This is the new panoramic display in the VisLab. The monitors are hinged so they...
View ArticleHow much of the world is deeper than X
I was asked for fraction of the ocean deeper than 20 fathoms. That gets tricky. What would the differnce be if this were at MLLW vrs MHW? I welcome input from anyone specializing in geodesy, vertical...
View Articleautoconf/automake changes to mb-system for conditionally removing GSF
This is my first really deep dive into autoconf / automake. I have been a heavy user of configure scripts and could sort of hack my way through minor changes, but I feel like I can actually do some...
View ArticleNMEA TAG blocks part 2
In my previous post of NMEA TAG block encoded data, I discussed my parsing of the USCG old style NMEA metadata, how to calculate NMEA checksums, and parsing the timestamp. Here are the complete list of...
View ArticleGoogle TimeLapse for coastal and marine applications
Thanks to Art for pointing out Wachapreague,VA, which has the fastest coastal erosion rate in the US. The area of Pilottown, LA and the mouth of the Mississippi River is also another area with huge...
View ArticleA simple autoconf example
In going through autoconf setup for mb-system, I have started feeling much better about autoconf. I think that one of the main things missing are a nice collection of simple examples. I wanted to see...
View ArticleA simple library autoconf example
I know there are a lot of other autoconf examples out there, but these are mine. The process of creating the examples is me learning about autoconf. I'm a long way from my first attempt at writing...
View ArticleNSA special series
There are a lot of fun documents available from the NSA. e.g. UNITED STATES CRYPTOLOGIC HISTORY Special Series Crisis Collection Volume 1 Attack on a Sigint Collector, the U.S.S. Liberty, 1981 I'm now...
View Articleipython notebook for coastal ocean models
Scipy 2013 videos Slides and code from the talks I love this: Emacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research; SciPy 2013 Presentation by John Kitchin at CMU. View the org file as rendered by github...
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Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing
Analyze recently hosted a meeting on IUU fishing. I did not attend, but Analyze has released notes from the meeting. Analyze Hosts First IUU Fishing Roundtable: word doc [Analyze] and pdf
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