Rummaging through old filesystems, I cam across a few modeling experiments that I ran in the previous millenium. I may even offer an explanation sometime, if I can remember that far back. Given my current involvement in Digital Preservation issues relating to research data and outputs, it’s a little depressing to find that judicious DAT/DLTing have resulted in me drawing a blank on retrieving the paper related too these images at the moment. Take care all you Early Stage Researchers out there - this is a big issue, particularly for those of you who may be dabling with processing digital data yourselves.
Tags: ADEOS, BRDF, CNES, digital_data, digital_preservation_issues, Li, Lucht, NASA, NASDA, paper_related, POLDER, research_data, Ross, semi-empirical, Strahler
Matterhorn circa 1993
Originally uploaded by breadedcod.
I’m back in to Permafrost in a big way at the moment. Granted, it’s not ILM, Portal or CMS, but it’s probably more important in the long run.
Actually, in the past 24 hours there have been a number of pointers to High Mountain Environments that I’ve noticed. The Beeb have been running programmes on BBC4 related to Everest, whilst the BBC News is runing stories on how HMEs are likely to change due to global warming.
None of this is really news, but it is a significant area of research at the moment. Perhaps a quick spin through current papers on ScienceDirect is on the horizon.
Right. This is a little off topic related to the Strawberry Project, but I’m quite excited about this one. Google Maps has been a firm favourite for some time (and, to a lesser extent, Google Earth).
There’s a rather neat Wordpress plugin for Google Maps available that allows users to bung a map in a post with a line of code, e.g.:
*gmap name=’newmap’ lat=’52.622122′ lng=’0.528545′ zoom=’14′ desc=’Barton Bendish, Norfolk - a great place for deploying your photometer’*
[gmap name='newmap' width='300' height='300' lat='52.622122' lng='0.528545' zoom='14' desc='Barton Bendish, Norfolk - a great place for deploying your photometer']
Which is rather useful.
Today has seen some debate around what a portal actually is. There’s a significant level of disharmony between people when they have to explain what a portal should look and feel like to an end user, and at this stage I think that’s quite healthy.
Current expectations are that portals deliver pages of portlets that try to be applications which would normally occupy whole-screen real estate. The worry of most is that portal attempt to get around alt-tab (or F9 if you’re on a superior OS) in switching between applications.
To some degree I feel that this position is a valid worry. Every time I see portal products demonstrated in the field, even by market leaders, the same old UI cram is evident.
There is an answer to this, and it will take some engineering and probably harsh decision making about what to include in a service.
It’s been a long year at the office. As well as getting to grips with rolling out an entperprise-wide web content management system, we’ve been busy getting an OJEC procurement process put to bed to give us a whole new software architecture to deliver our web services through.
Anyway, there’ll be more news on that next month.� In the meantime, we need to look at the CMS project and get that out the door safely.