[GRASS-user] Northern Italy , Stradivari research , Flora

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Hello ,

I am an archaeologist and a luthier. I am reading everything I found about Stradivari and Cremona. After seeing what people are doing with aerial photographs and flight simulation programs , I decided to do the same for north italy.
Where can I find northern italy aerial pictures for to construct flight simulation scene ?
If I can find multispectral flora pictures , i would be glad.
If everything comes cheap or free , I will be very happy.
And I need sedimentary analysis of rivers , their path 200 years ago and wood history analysises.

Best regards ,

Mustafa Umut Sarac

Istanbul

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Hello Mustafa -

1. where are you writing from ?

2. cheap or free is not the same. depending on the context under which
your project is to take place, you may be ok with "cheap" data, or
free data, or you may be ok with paying a lot. but free would be great
if the source you are fetching imagery is public.

3. I would be very interested in knowing the connection which brought
you from Stradivari to sedimentary analysis of rivers, as I am aware
of some research groups in Italy who are investigating about
Stradivari having initiated their quest from applied
hydrology...possibly there is a link between your activity and the
groups I am talking about. I don't want to get off-topic, so we may
talk privately about this.

4. Worldwind (worldwind.arc.nasa.gov) or the OpenAerialMap project
(openaerialmap.org) could be some starting points for your imagery,
while we wait in Italy to better define terms of use for more accurate
local sources (you could still check www.atlanteitaliano.it for one of
the main national sources - but you won't be allowed to use those data
without a commercial agreement which is clearly detailed in the web
site).

As you mention Cremona, from www.regione.lombardia.it you can also
access (for view purposes only, as far as "free" goes, other aerial
imagery of the Cremona area or its surroundings.

5. Please keep us posted on the developments of your research: if you
can give us news by october, we may cite your experience in upcoming
events on awareness raising on free/open source geogrpahic software
(and data).

Andrea Giacomelli - aka pibinko
vice president for GFOSS.it/Italian OSGEO Chapter - http://www.gfoss.it
http://www.pibinko.org

2008/6/14, Mustafa Umut Sarac <mustafaumutsarac@gmail.com>:

Hello ,

I am an archaeologist and a luthier. I am reading everything I found about
Stradivari and Cremona. After seeing what people are doing with aerial
photographs and flight simulation programs , I decided to do the same for
north italy.
Where can I find northern italy aerial pictures for to construct flight
simulation scene ?
If I can find multispectral flora pictures , i would be glad.
If everything comes cheap or free , I will be very happy.
And I need sedimentary analysis of rivers , their path 200 years ago and
wood history analysises.

Best regards ,

Mustafa Umut Sarac

Istanbul

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Mustafa Umut Sarac wrote:

I am an archaeologist and a luthier. I am reading
everything I found about
Stradivari and Cremona. After seeing what people are doing
with aerial photographs and flight simulation programs , I decided
to do the same for north italy.
Where can I find northern italy aerial pictures for to
construct flight simulation scene ?
If I can find multispectral flora pictures , i would be glad.
If everything comes cheap or free , I will be very happy.
And I need sedimentary analysis of rivers , their path 200
years ago and wood history analysises.

re flight simulator stuff, you can try NVIZ's keyframe animator tool for making fly-by movies, and also NVIZ's "flight mode" mouse controls.

I have long wondered about exporting GRASS maps to FlightGear using the TerraGear scripts but have never got around to trying it. Then you can fly around your maps in a real flight simulator.
http://www.flightgear.org
http://www.terragear.org (site down? try internet archive or google cache)

you can get basic data from VMap0 (see grass newsletter articles), SRTM elevation, and LANDSAT image coverage (r.in.onearth addon script and/or r.in.wms).

all free,

Hamish

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On Jun 15, 2008, at 1:24 AM, Hamish wrote:

Mustafa Umut Sarac wrote:

I am an archaeologist and a luthier. I am reading
everything I found about
Stradivari and Cremona. After seeing what people are doing
with aerial photographs and flight simulation programs , I decided
to do the same for north italy.
Where can I find northern italy aerial pictures for to
construct flight simulation scene ?
If I can find multispectral flora pictures , i would be glad.
If everything comes cheap or free , I will be very happy.
And I need sedimentary analysis of rivers , their path 200
years ago and wood history analysises.

re flight simulator stuff, you can try NVIZ's keyframe animator tool for making fly-by movies, and also NVIZ's "flight mode" mouse controls.

I have long wondered about exporting GRASS maps to FlightGear using the TerraGear scripts but have never got around to trying it. Then you can fly around your maps in a real flight simulator.
http://www.flightgear.org
http://www.terragear.org (site down? try internet archive or google cache)

you can get basic data from VMap0 (see grass newsletter articles), SRTM elevation, and LANDSAT image coverage (r.in.onearth addon script and/or r.in.wms).

all free,

Hamish

I just would like to add that FlightGear has a very active community. One of the issues that has come up on the mailing lists, on occasion, is the source of map data, and how to process that data so that FlightGear can use it. GRASS has been discussed in that context.
I would suggest that this is potentially a nice place for two very unrelated opensource projects actually have some overlap and some potential benefits from each to work together.

--Adam