Apollo Project

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Apollo Project
UMass Boston

• Jonathan Franck
• Xiaohui Wang
• Tiejun Zhang
• Guosheng Lin

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Project Goals

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• Create a program that will allow researchers and
  students to view NASA data of other planets
• Provide tools to analyze geological features
• Allow sharing of observations with others

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Project Scope

• Major Inputs
• NASA data of Venus
• User entered data, i.e. Labels
• Processing Functionality
• Read and display NASA data
• Analyze Venus geological features
• Collaborative navigation
• Major Outputs
• 2D images
• Statistics and geological information
• Educational information

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NASA Data

• 10 Gigabytes of data on 100 CDs
• Each CD contains two directories of 36 files
• Each file contains header information about the
  data along with about 8 MB of image data

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Open Map
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Open Map(Contd)

• Instructions
• Delete sample document icon and replace with
  working document icons as follows
• Create document in Word.
• Return to PowerPoint.
• From Insert Menu, select Object
• Click Create from File
• Locate File name in File box
• Make sure Display as Icon is checked.
• Click OK
• Select icon
• From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings.
• Click Object Action and select Edit
• Click OK

• Open Map
• Open Source
• Has some code already written
• Image classes that we can use/modify.
• Uses Java Beans

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Java Beans
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Supported OS

• Windows NT
• Windows 2000
• Windows Millennium
• Windows 98

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Procedures

• Instructions
• Delete sample document icon and replace with
  working document icons as follows
• Create document in Word.
• Return to PowerPoint.
• From Insert Menu, select Object
• Click Create from File
• Locate File name in File box
• Make sure Display as Icon is checked.
• Click OK
• Select icon
• From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings.
• Click Object Action and select Edit
• Click OK

• Incremental Development
• Allows divide and conquer.
• Gives us something useful if we are not able to
  get to some Increments
• Three Increments

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Schedule

• Instructions
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• Create document in Word.
• Return to PowerPoint.
• From Insert Menu, select Object
• Click Create from File
• Locate File name in File box
• Make sure Display as Icon is checked.
• Click OK
• Select icon
• From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings.
• Click Object Action and select Edit
• Click OK

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Increment I

• Load NASA data in Open Map
• User will be able to Navigate around Venus
• Display as much NASA data as possible

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Increment I (Cond)

• Integrate Gazetteer into Map
• Assign IAU-approved names to their corresponding
  geographical features on Venus
• Image Processing
• Zoom in and Zoom out

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Increment II

• Modify the Map
• Label Features
• Highlight Areas
• Save and Restore
• Feature Analysis Support
• Compute Area
• Compute Volume
• Compute Mass
• Compute Slope

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Increment III

• Educational Information
• Feature Information
• Hyperlinks
• Animation and Narration
• Pattern Recognition
• Identify Features
• Online Application
• Support multi-user sharing of information

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Risks

• Read More than 10G of NASA Data
• Execution Speed
• Resources Restrains
• Project Complexity
• Schedule Slippage

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Current Status

• Current progress
• Completed Project Plan and Requirement Doc
• Displayed small amount of Venus data in Open Map
• Current Issues
• Display Large amounts of data
• Having enough Memory and disk space
• Assemble image files and how to store them

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Venus Layer
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Related Documents Links

• Instructions
• Delete sample document icon and replace with
  working document icons as follows
• Create document in Word.
• Return to PowerPoint.
• From Insert Menu, select Object
• Click Create from File
• Locate File name in File box
• Make sure Display as Icon is checked.
• Click OK
• Select icon
• From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings.
• Click Object Action and select Edit
• Click OK

• http//www.cs.umb.edu/jfranck/apollo
• Project Plan
• Requirement Documents
• Open Map Documentation
• http//www.siliconspaceships.com
• http//www.openmap.org