nighttime fun with ruby :wq

[ara.t.howard]

i can't put much of what we work on online, but we just put this up for a
conference so i thought i'd share

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/nrt/html/mosaic/ut_night/loop/

ruby is driving about 50% of the code that makes these images. each set (vis,
tir) of data is approximately 10gb of input data - though these are obviously
thumbnails - and burns up something like 1hr of compute time.

if anyone is interested we are working to make this data publically availible
via a mapserver wms/wcs interface sometime in the next few months. mapserver
is a http interface so i may whip up a ruby api so you can, for instance, pull
a cloud image over new-york state down easily.

regards.

-a

 

[Eric Hodel]

i can't put much of what we work on online, but we just put this up
for a
conference so i thought i'd share

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/nrt/html/mosaic/ut_night/loop/

ruby is driving about 50% of the code that makes these images.
each set (vis,
tir) of data is approximately 10gb of input data - though these are
obviously
thumbnails - and burns up something like 1hr of compute time.

That's one hell of a gif, 13.2M

if anyone is interested we are working to make this data publically
availible
via a mapserver wms/wcs interface sometime in the next few months.
mapserver
is a http interface so i may whip up a ruby api so you can, for
instance, pull
a cloud image over new-york state down easily.

This would be awesome.