Dr' Tim Foresman

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PerceptiÓn Remota Un Portal Para La Tierra
Dr. Tim Foresman Centro Internacional para
EducaciÓn en PercepciÓn Remota, Inc. 5
Septiembre, 2005 Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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Tibet-Qinghai Plateau
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Tsunami Desastre
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Antes de
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Después
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PerceptiÓn Remota/Mapping and Web Services for
Humanitarian and Disaster Reduction Strategies

• FIRES
• - FAO, UNOCH, WMO, ECE, UNCHS
• FLOODS
• - UNDP, UNOCH, WMO, FAO
• EARTHQUAKES
• - UNCHS, UNDP, UNOCH, WHO
• FAMINE
• - WFP, UNDP, WHO, UNICEF

DROUGHT - UNSO,WFP,UNDP POLLUTION - WHO,
UNESCO, UNCHS CONFLICTS REFUGEES - UNCHS,
UNOCHA
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Repositioning Public for Disaster Management by
Use of Science Visualization Remote Sensing
Disaster Event
Early Warning Risk Communication
Response Relief
Engage Public with Remote Sensing
Rehabilitation
Reconstruction
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CHINAE (1570) Abraham Ortelius / Ludovico
Giorgio (Barbuda)
India
Myanmar
Malaysia
Thailand
Cambodia
Yunan
Great Wall
Vietnam
The Silk Route
China
Philippines
Taiwan
Japan
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Aerial Photography and Topographic Maps
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GIS with multiple thematic layers of mapping
information poder y saber
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GIS Mapping (roads) on top satellite imagery
Mundo de Nuevo Mapa.
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Evolution of GIS Software
WEB-Services
Standalone
Client Server
WW Web
Interoperable Web
Client
Browser Plug in
Client
Client
Client
Client
Client
Client
Client
Software
Client
Software
Software
Software
SOHO Application

Application
Application
Application
Application
DB
My-map library
GIS engine
GIS engine
GIS engine
WebGIS engine
SQL Interface
Special Format
ASP
Other DB
DB Oracle etc.
Special DB
Standard IF by OGC, ISO
XML
WebGIS engine
WMS
Other Service

Other DB
Interoperability
Distributed Server Multi services
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Will Maps and the Internet help save the planet?
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Club of Rome and The Limits to Growth
Exponential growth curve!
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The Global Picture on Population and
Distribution of Resources
Brillante igual Rico Oscuro igual Pobreza
Source Nighttime Lights of the World, NOAA
-Defense Military Satellite Program, 1999.
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Scripps Institute
El Efecto Invernadero
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RESOURCE CONSUMPTION IN INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES
MUST IN THE LONG TERM BE REDUCED TEN TIMES FOR
SUFFICIENT RESOURCES TO BE MADE AVAILABLE TO
SATISFY NEEDS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Rees and Wackernagle, 1994
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UNEP Reports on Global Trends
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How will we manage our Ecosystems?
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The Arctic region is facing dramatic changes
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Animal species' diversity, ranges, and
distribution will change.
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carrying capacity
population
time
Club of Rome and The Limits to Growth
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carrying capacity
population
time
Club of Rome and The Limits to Growth
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What will Honduras have to do to meet the
challenges of sustainability?
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time
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Challenges for sustainability begin with
understanding the individual and community
Ecological Footprint
Resources Used
Waste Products Assimilated
Borrowed from Professor William Rees
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Framework Models for Sustainability -Ecological
Footprints
Currently using 1.25 Earths of resources to meet
the demands of an expanding global economy!
Results of Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Report 2005
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http//www.millenniumassessment.org
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Framework Models for Sustainability Human
Ecosystem Model
Equilibrium
Critical Resources
Human Social System
Equilibrium
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PerceptiÓn Remota de Historia

• The term "photography" is derived from two Greek
  words
• meaning "light" (phos) and "writing" (graphien).
• In the early part of the 19th century Daguerre
  created the first photographic plate.

Early Daguerrotype
1839
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Hot Air Balloon Photographs were used in US Civil
War (1860s)
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Arthur Batut, fotografia de cometa en
Labruguiere, France 1889.
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1906 San Francisco, California earthquake
disaster captured by kite photograph (G.R.
Lawrence)
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El Bavarian Cuerpo de Paloma (1903)
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Wilbur Wright and L. P. Bonvillain acquired the
first remotely sensed image from an airplane in
France in 1908.
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Annotated photo of military locations in France
during WW I, 1918.
Reconnaissance Graflex camera
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A U2 reconnaissance jet flying over Vandenberg
Air Force Base
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U2 Color Infrared photography(1947 Kodak) of San
Francisco
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ltlt 1897 First rocket photo 100 meters by Alfred
Nobel
600 meters gtgt reached by Alfred Maul's rocket
during a 1904
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Sputnik, the world's first satellite, on October
4, 1957
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TIROS-1 (10 meteorological satellites in this
series were flown)
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Nimbus Satellite Diagram
Nimbus 1 Weather Map (Sept. 1964)
Nimbus 3 Image of Australia (1969)
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• Landsat Launched on July 23, 1972.
• MultiSpectral Scanner imaged Earth from 900 km
  green, red and two IR spectral bands at 80m
  resolution.
• Originally ERTS 1 (Earth Resources Technology
  Satellites) designed after the Nimbus 4
  meteorological satellite.
• Near-polar sun synchronous orbit

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1972
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1986
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1992
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1975
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1986
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1992
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1973
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1987
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1997
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Landsats 4, 5 (and 6) carried, in addition to the
MSS, a new instrument called the Thematic Mapper
gtgt
ltlt Landsat 7 with the Enhanced Thematic Mapper
(ETM) includes not only the 7 TM bands (the
thermal band 6 has 60 m resolution), but also a
panchromatic band that is capable of 15 m
resolution
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THE EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS)
Global Monitoring of Forest, Vegetation, and now
Disaster Monitoring and Management GEOSS - An
International Partnership!
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Earth-Sun System ScienceSpacecraft
andSpacecraft Transitions

• Applied Sciences Program
• NASA Science Mission Directorate

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NASA Earth-Sun Research Spacecraft
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Terra, Aqua to NPP to NPOESS
NPP (2006) CrIS/ATMS VIIRS OMPS
Coriolis (2003) WindSat
Aqua (2002) AIRS, AMSU MODIS
METOP (2005) IASI/AMSU/MHS AVHRR
NPOESS (2009) CrIS/ATMS, VIIRS, CMIS, OMPS
ERBS
Use of Advanced Sounder Data for Improved Weather
Forecasting Numerical Weather Prediction
NOAA Real-Time Data Delivery Timeline Ground
Station Scenario
NWS/NCEP GSFC/DAO ECMWF UKMO FNMOC Meteo-France BM
RC-Australia Met Serv Canada
NOAA Real-time User
NWP Forecasts
IDPS
C3S
Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
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Next Generation Missions
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Research Systems to Operational Systems
Imaging and Sounding
SeaWiFS
Terra
Aqua
NPOESS
NPP
Solar Irradiance, Ozone, and Aerosols
In operation
ACRIMsat
SORCE
Glory
NPOESS
Under Development
SAGE III
AURA
NPOESS
NPP
In Formulation
Observation
Atmospheric Composition
Tech Development
UARS
AURA
TBD
Ocean Surface Topography
Jason
OSTM
NOAA/EUMETSAT
Canceled flight mission gleaning technology
for GOES-R
Land Cover/Land Use Change
Landsat 7
Operational NPOESS
LDCM
GIFTS
GOES
Tech
Tropo Winds
TBD
Data Assim
Short-term Prediction Research and Transition
Center
NWS
NASA NOAA jointly funding NRC studies on
improving transition
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Earth Observation System A-TrainAerosol/Clouds/R
adiation
thick clouds drizzle
aerosol profiles, cloud tops
polarization, multi-angle
CERES TOA fluxes MODIS cloud re, t AMSR LWP
O2 A-band
OMI absorbing aerosol
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Sun-Earth Connection Missions Supporting Future
Exploration
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Digital Earth Vision for Technology with a Purpose
Pre-Vice Premier of China, Li Lanqing, delivered
a speech at the opening Ceremony of the 1st ISDE
December 1999
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High Resolution Satellite
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High Resolution DEM
Invest 7.8 billion Yen in 3years For 1020cm DEM
in total Japan
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www.r-s-c-c.org
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Imagine a 3D online mirror of reality built by
thousands of collaborating organizations, as the
underlying canvas of the Internet.
accessible through every browser, TV and PDA.
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THE EARTH PORTAL One Part of a Digital
Universe
Expert Information Provided by World-Class
Stewards
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• Global Tessellation (the key to 3-D)
• GeoFusion
• ESRI

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• Cartographic Framework
• GeoFusion
• ESRI
• WRI
• CIESIN
• National Geographic

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• Topography and Bathymetry
• NASA
• NOAA
• USGS

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• Digital Earth Framework for Each Nation on the
  Globe
• Regional views
• Political views
• Sub-national views

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Zoom in from Continental to National to Regional
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Zoom in State to City
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Locate Streets and Buildings
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• Framework Datasets from Thematic Data
• WRI
• CIESIN
• ESRI/National Geographic
• UNEP

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Land Cover
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Biodiversity
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Forest AVHRR
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Chorophyll-a
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Ocean SST
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Population Density
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Night Lights
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Languages
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Map Overlays
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• Framework Datasets from EIC Partners
• HARC
• Earth 911
• ESRI/National Geographic
• UNEP

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HARC
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• Earth 911
• 200 listings
• 73,000 unique locations
• 410,000 community service listings

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• WRI
• 200 country listings
• 10 unique thematic categories
• Numerous special reports

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ESRI/National Geographic
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UNEP - UNGIWG
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Earth Portal
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Digital Earth
Muchas gracias por sus atenciÓn!
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Thank You
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