Re-posted from "announcement" list.
Hi GRASS Developers and Users!
I work for the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)
in Monterey, CA. One of our biggest challenges is identifying
undeclared nuclear facilities. CNS has experienced imagery analysts,
and we can identify various signatures of different types of
facilities, but we'd like to try automating the early stages of
imagery analysis by using GIS information derived from images to
predict the likelihood that a nuclear facility may exist in the area
-- essentially triage the areas which are most likely to host a
facility.
We feel pretty confident that we can develop known and new signatures
of different types of nuclear facilities, but don't have the in-house
capability on object-based image analysis using GRASS GIS.
My questions are:
1) Is this a good use of GRASS?
2) Where can I find a developer?
Kind regards,
Melissa
--
Melissa Hanham
Research Associate
+1.831.647.6507
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Combating the spread of weapons of mass destruction with training & analysis
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Melissa Hanham <mhanham@miis.edu> wrote:
Re-posted from "announcement" list.
Hi GRASS Developers and Users!
I work for the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)
in Monterey, CA. One of our biggest challenges is identifying
undeclared nuclear facilities. CNS has experienced imagery analysts,
and we can identify various signatures of different types of
facilities, but we'd like to try automating the early stages of
imagery analysis by using GIS information derived from images to
predict the likelihood that a nuclear facility may exist in the area
-- essentially triage the areas which are most likely to host a
facility.
We feel pretty confident that we can develop known and new signatures
of different types of nuclear facilities, but don't have the in-house
capability on object-based image analysis using GRASS GIS.
My questions are:
1) Is this a good use of GRASS?
Given known and new signatures of different types of nuclear
facilities, it should be easy to automatically identify objects that
match these signatures using existing GRASS functionality.
Maybe of interest is also a GRASS module for object recognition,
i.segment. It should be possible to filter the objects identified by
i.segment with known signatures.
2) Where can I find a developer?
On the GRASS developer mailing list:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
and on the osgeo service provider site:
http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile
Markus M
Kind regards,
Melissa
--
Melissa Hanham
Research Associate
+1.831.647.6507
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Combating the spread of weapons of mass destruction with training & analysis
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