[CLUE-Talk] Xephem...

[jimintriglia at americanisp.net]

Greetings All,

After Tom's presentation, I mentioned how important remote Imaging/GIS data has
become, to those of us that live in the Bailey/Pine/Conifer area, as in the
Summertime we are usually under the threat of being turned into toast (Wildfires).

During the Hi-Meadow fire, some Infra-Red Space imaging was provided via the
web, which was of some help to area residents that needed to find out the
progress/direction of the fire. These images lacked state/local/street map
overlays, which made the images close to useless, as one could not even
determine which way (one the image) was north.

Since that time (of the HiMeadow fire), Federal, State and Local fire/emergency
agncies have received grief from area residents, due to the lack of fire
reporting/location/progress info.

In any event, involved agencies have come together and developed GEOMAC, a very
cool, web-based 'real-time' Fire GIS graphic reporting service, which I wanted
to share with everyone:

http://geomac.usgs.gov/Public.html

I've added the link to my web site home page (for area residents). The next time
we have a fire in the area, maybe I'll be able to know and 'see' a wildfire
coming before I smell it first.

;-)

JimI.


> Last night during my GIS presentation, someone asked about software that
> shows sunrise/sunset times.  Here's a link to Xephem, which does this and
> much more....
> 	http://www.ClearSkyInstitute.com/xephem/xephem.html
> 
> The bottom of the page lists links to RPM files for easy Linux installation.
> Note also that Xephem is 'freely distributable', not necessarily free as
> per a Open Source version.
> 
> -- 
> Tom Poindexter
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Jim Intriglia
IT Systems and Software Developer
www.JimIntriglia.com