Comment Better pricing at SkyWatch (Score 1) 8
SkyWatch has better pricing https://skywatch.com/pricing across all providers and delivery time is just a few minutes for archive SkySat
Comment Public money (Score 4, Insightful) 61
Public software from public money.
The model works well for scientific software at NASA, ESA, CSA, etc.
Submission + - ESA Summer of Code (esa.int)
phyr writes: ESA Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS) is a program run by the European Space Agency. It aims at offering student developers stipends to write code for various space-related open source software projects. Through SOCIS, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Applicants must be attending a European or Canadian university and will receive 4000 Euros for supporting one of the accepted open source projects. Applicants have until May 15th to submit their proposals and resumes. I'm particularly interested to have exceptional proposals for the NEST project.
Comment 28DaysLater (Score 5, Funny) 285
Haven't we learned anything from the movies... this is how the zombie apocalypse begins
Comment Summer of Code Inspired Programs (Score 2) 20
Don't forget the SoC like programs such as ESA's SOCIS
Public and private money for students to code open source software is a great thing.
Submission + - ESA Summer of Code in Space 2012 (esa.int)
phyr writes: "The European Space Agency is looking for student coders to join the Summer of Code in Space. ESA will pay 4000 Euros to each student for contributing to a space related open source project for the summer. Accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios. Mentor organizations have been selected. Students now have until July 27 to submit their applications. Check out the ideas pages of each project such as for the NEST SAR Toolbox"
Comment Just add more (Score 2) 292
Can't scale past 16TB? Why not just stack them?
Comment Re:Not exactly new (Score 1) 70
What's new here is that they are trying to get a constellation up very cheap (20M) and expect to get a 50:1 return on investment.
The sensors themselves aren't that impressive and low resolution when compared to RADARSAT-2, TerraSAR-X and CosmoSkymed.
Let's hope they fund some new work into the GPL SAR Toolbox NEST http://www.array.ca/nest
The sensors themselves aren't that impressive and low resolution when compared to RADARSAT-2, TerraSAR-X and CosmoSkymed.
Let's hope they fund some new work into the GPL SAR Toolbox NEST http://www.array.ca/nest
Comment Re:Toronto (Score 1) 614
The 7th floor kept moving here in Toronto for quite a long time
Comment 100 years? (Score 1) 364
$500k stretched over 100 years isn't going to do much research.
$500k over 1 year will produce a paper that says we'll need a lot more money
Comment Google Canadian? (Score -1, Troll) 205
Dumping the US$ fast!
All transactions on android market will now only be in CDN dollars
Comment Remote Sensing Toolboxes (Score 2) 18
With all the new data that is and will be freely available to everyone, we could use some SoC help on the open source toolboxes BEAM, NEST and others.
Please send in your ideas on what could be worked on for NEST here
NEST could definitely benefit from more GIS functionality with more integration with GeoTools or other Java GIS libraries.
Please send in your ideas on what could be worked on for NEST here
NEST could definitely benefit from more GIS functionality with more integration with GeoTools or other Java GIS libraries.
Comment Remote Sensing for kids (Score 2) 225
Wathcing over our planet tutorial at the Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing
http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/resource/tutor/planet/index_e.php
Comment Re:Find project you like or use (Score 1) 151
Comment Re:Visual Studio replacement on Linux (Score 1) 310
Definitely not the best there is.
Try the community edition of IntelliJ IDEA and you'll see what really helpful tools can do for you.
Code with pleasure.
