[GEpro-users] RE: [Opengrid] Digital Earth 3D Visualization Grand
Challenge
foresman
foresman at hughes.net
Sat Feb 10 04:01:42 EAT 2007
Greetings Earthlings:
What lurks behind the successes is usually a good woman. And that means
cheers to Joyce. The contest will happily grow, but just think if we can
find a few brilliant (but quirky) folks out there and begin to reward them
with recognition and other material bobbles. What would happen if we began
to promote and reward more of the next generation and get the corporate
partners behind the concept of hard work and brains?
It might not save the polar bears, but it may make things a bit more fun for
the rest of us.
Hope everyone is signing on for the conference. Seats will fill fast.
Cheers to all, Tim Foresman
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Dr. Timothy W. Foresman
President: Global Water (www.globalwater.org)
President: International Center for Remote Sensing Education
Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Qinqhai Academy of Animal Science and
Veterinary Medicine
Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland
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Phone: 410-796-1980
Mobile:443-622-9464
Email: Foresman at hughes.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: ashbindu.singh at rona.unep.org [mailto:ashbindu.singh at rona.unep.org]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 7:21 PM
To: Mick Wilson; Foresman Tim; gepro-users; opengrid; ALLDEWA%UNON
Cc: Lorant Czaran
Subject: Re: [Opengrid] Digital Earth 3D Visualization Grand Challenge
Mick
Thanks for an accurate record of history except implementation of goods have
been always a challange.
I am not sure how much UN senior mangement care about these poineering
efforts. In fact I find rather dipressing.
Best wishes
----- Original Message -----
From: Mick Wilson [Mick.Wilson at unep.org]
Sent: 02/09/2007 07:17 PM
To: foresman at hughes.net; gepro-users at als.unep.org; opengrid at als.unep.org;
ALLDEWA%UNON at unon.org
Cc: czaran at un.org
Subject: Fw: [Opengrid] Digital Earth 3D Visualization Grand Challenge
As our colleague Hugo rightlly points out, I did not attribute the past
director of UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment, Tim Foresman,
with the idea behind this contest opportunity.
Neither did I credit Tim with planting the concepts behind two recent UNEP
successes, namely the whole spinny-earth Google thing and the environmental
change atlas.
The early negotiations with Keyhole Corp. - back in 2000-2001 before Google
bought them out and made it into Google earth - were spun directly from the
work at NASA Goddard's original work under Al Gore's "Digital Earth"
initiative under the Clinton administration in the US. Our friend, Lorant
Czaran, was with with Tim at the first GMEF in Catagena, Columbia in 2002
to 'wow' the delegates with what we, UNEP. might do with a communication
medium built on cutting-edge "spinny earth" technology combined with the
sorts of data about real environmetal changes coming from our colleagues in
Mexico (Lake Chapala), Nepal (glacial lake outburst floods) and beyond.
Ashbindu Singh has done sterling work bringing to fruition - in the face of
all sorts of budgertary and institutonal roadblocks - the environmental
change atlas grown from seeds that I know, from personal experience, were
planted in Foresman's time. The idea of an atlas compiling before-and-after
satellite images to highlight changes in the human environment was
something that Tim had me and Ash along with him to pitch to National
Geographic in Washington back in 2002. Why it stalled then I do not know
but it has, under Ash's guidance, gone on to be a hit, with people actually
paying to buy copies and own it. Aot of copies.
So, Tim, I may get whacked for making these statements but the record shows
that you pointed UNEP and DEWA towards value of the impact of these
advanced technologies for visualizing changes in the environment. And long
before Google Earth and likes became the Flavour of the Month. You worked,
and continue to work through the Digital Earh symposia, to make this
information real and accessible for people like my mother.
You should be proud of your children.
Mick Wilson
Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA)
United Nations Environment Programme
PO Box 30552 - Nairobi 00100, Kenya
Tel: +254 20 7623436
Fax: +254 20 7624315
Email: mick.wilson at unep.org
Web www.unep.net, www.unep.org
----- Forwarded by Mick Wilson/UNEP/NBO/UNO on 02/10/2007 02:36 AM -----
"Hugo Ahlenius"
<Hugo.Ahlenius at gr
ida.no> To
"Mick Wilson"
02/09/2007 04:36 <Mick.Wilson at unep.org>
PM cc
Subject
RE: [Opengrid] Digital Earth 3D
Visualization Grand Challenge
he he,
You forgot to mention that Tim Foresman is behind that one... (I am lurking
on the geowanking list)
I understand the announcement as more looking for brand new innovative
tools/implementations rather than applications using e.g. google earth -
but maybe that is just my intepretation...
:)
/H.
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Hugo Ahlenius
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| From: opengrid-bounces at als.unep.org
| [mailto:opengrid-bounces at als.unep.org] On Behalf Of Mick Wilson
| Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 10:31
| To: opengrid at als.unep.org; geopro-users at als.unep.org
| Cc: ALLDEWA%UNON at unon.org
| Subject: [Opengrid] Digital Earth 3D Visualization Grand Challenge
|
|
| Dear colleagues (and wilth apologies for cross-postings)
|
| well, now that we all have our copies of Google Earth Pro we
| have no reason
| not to think about how any of might actually get involved
| with the contest
| described below. This could be a really neat opportunity to get some
| profile for environment-related visualizations coming out of the UNEP
| community that tell a Real Story rather than mere technological fairy
| stories. I can envisage that it might be an opportunity to
| highlight some
| of our national and regional partners' stories.
|
| Happy creative thinking.
|
| Mick Wilson
| Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA)
| United Nations Environment Programme
| PO Box 30552 - Nairobi 00100, Kenya
| Tel: +254 20 7623436
| Fax: +254 20 7624315
| Email: mick.wilson at unep.org
| Web www.unep.net, www.unep.org
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| ----- Forwarded by Mick Wilson/UNEP/NBO/UNO on 02/09/2007
| 10:50 AM -----
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|
| Mike Liebhold
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| <mnl at well.com>
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| To
| 02/09/2007 01:59 "Open Forum on
| Participatory
| AM Geographic Information
| Systems and
| Technologies"
| <ppgis at dgroups.org>
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| cc
| Please respond to
|
| "Open Forum on
| Subject
| Participatory [ppgis] [Geowanking]
| Digital Earth
| Geographic 3D Visualization Grand
| Challenge
| Information
|
| Systems and
|
| Technologies"
|
| <ppgis at dgroups.or
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| g>
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| An Earth System Science Education session at ISDE5?
| Please forgive the cross posting:
|
| INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL EARTH 3D VISUALIZATION
|
| GRAND CHALLENGE
|
|
|
| How can we better experience this world of ours at the cross
| roads of human
| impacts and climate change? How can we best communicate
| these experiences,
| particularly in light of the major changes Earth now faces,
| as one world?
| How can we most compellingly understand and communicate those
| experiences
| and processes? What 3D experiences or 3D tools can you share
| that might
| encourage the opportunity for a better world? If you think
| you can do this
| in a way that demonstrates how people can more easily and effectively
| communicate, YOU COULD WIN BIG!
|
|
|
| The International Digital Earth 3D Visualization Challenge gives
| researchers, creative programmers, community leaders, activists, and
| students this unprecedented opportunity for international
| visibility of
| their work. Submit your entry by 1 April 2007 to be one of several
| International Digital Earth Challenge Winners!
|
|
|
| Winners will be flown, with all expenses paid, from around
| the world to San
| Francisco for the June 5th to June 9th symposium. Six (6)
| finalists will
| receive their awards and prize packages at the Gala Awards
| Dinner on June
| 7th on the U.C. Berkeley campus. Contest sponsors, including
| Google, ESRI,
| and NASA will be attending the awards ceremonies for the International
| Symposium for Digital Earth awards dinner. Winners will be
| afforded the
| unique opportunity to interview with these industry giants
| for potential
| employment opportunities.
|
|
|
| Runners-up will receive outstanding recognition by the International
| Society of Digital Earth, and the major geobrowser leaders; ESRI,
| GeoFusion, Google, and the NASA World Wind team.
|
|
|
| Don't delay. Visit the Challenge Contest Rules today at
| http://dex.telascience.org/entry-form or on the conference web site at
| www.isde5.org!
|
| Be recognized as a world-class Digital Earth Champion! For
| the chance of a
| lifetime, accept the Digital Earth Challenge!!!
|
|
|
| *****************************************************************
|
| DIGITAL EARTH CHALLENGE CONTEST RULES
|
|
|
| 1. Any citizen or class of citizens on the planet Earth
| may apply.
|
| 2. Entries must be received in English by 1 April 2007.
|
| 3. Entries must demonstrate unique or innovative
| applications, tools,
| or utilities for 3D Visualization
|
| 4. Entry Forms must be submitted electronically at
| http://dex.telascience.org/entry-form
|
| 5. Entries must provide a URL for location of their 3D
| Visualization
| entry.
|
| 6. URLs must remain active for the duration of the
| contest (until 9
| June 2007).
|
| 7. Only one entry per individual or group may be submitted.
|
| 8. Copyrights and ownership will remain with the author/creator;
| however, copyright permission to publish the entry and announce the
| winner's name will be retained by the ISDE5 Secretariat.
|
| 9. If USA Visa restrictions prevent winners from traveling to San
| Francisco, a cash award will be wired to the contest winner's bank
| account.
|
| CONTEST AWARDS FOR DIGITAL EARTH CHALLENGE
|
|
|
| 1. All expenses paid travel, accommodations, and
| conference fees to
| the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth hosted on
| the campus of
| the University of California at Berkeley.
|
| 2. Special recognition of the winning entries by invited
| presentations.
|
| 3. Receipt of Award Plaque and nominal cash prize at the
| Awards Dinner
| on 7 June 2007.
|
| 4. Special dinner seating with VIP industry and
| technology leaders.
|
| 5. Technology Prize Package, a collection of valuable
| gifts including
| thousands of dollars worth of the leading geobrowser and tessellation
| software packages.
|
|
|
| JUDGING EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR DIGITAL EARTH CHALLENGE
|
|
|
| A panel of internationally acclaimed judges will evaluate all
| entries to
| determine their relative ranking. Categories will include: (1)
| Applications and (2) Tools & Utilities
|
|
|
| Entries will be judged for:
|
| Uniqueness
| Innovation
| Usefulness
| Scalability
| Effective use of 3D perspectives.
|
|
|
|
| Entries will also be judged for Digital Earth
| characteristics, including:
|
| Open source
| Ability to interoperate
| Transportability
|
|
| Relationship to the themes of the Digital Earth Vision is
| important, for
| example:
|
| Education
| Health
| Environment
| Science
| History
| Art
| Music
| Ease of use
| Web-viewing
| Esthetics
| Sustainable Development
|
|
|
|
| TECHNICAL AND PROCEDURAL QUESTIONS FOR DIGITAL EARTH CHALLENGE
|
|
|
| Challenge contestants may submit their entries electronically to
| http://dex.telascience.org/entry-form
|
|
|
| ENTRY FORM CONTENTS FOR DIGITAL EARTH CHALLENGE
|
|
|
| Full Name (Family Name, First Name, Other Names):
|
| Work Place or School; Name and Address:
|
| Home Address:
|
| Contact Phone Number:
|
| Email address:
|
| Entry Description [500 word limit]:
|
| Entry URL Location [Please include any access codes; Confidential for
| Judges Only]
|
|
|
|
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