MTPEPoster Domain map

MTPEPoster Home Page

What's New
Background The NASA's Earth Science Enterprise Backdrop is in use Title: The NASA's Earth Science Enterprise Backdrop is in use Description: The new conference exhibit backdrop for the Earth Science Enterprise Program is now in use at various scientific meetings. It is 20x10 feet in size, with back lighting. Here is a picture of the backdrop designer, Winnie Humberson at the December 98 San Francisco AGU meeting exhebition. Submitted by: Husar Rudolf Sumbitter URL: /MTPEPoster/People/people.html#RudolfHusar Date: 12/12/98 RecID: Background.RudolfHusar Comment/Feedback URL: /MTPEPoster/RemoteCFPages/CommentFeedback9.html Mission To Planet Earth: NASA's Program to Understanding Our Changing Planet Title: Mission To Planet Earth: NASA's Program to Understanding Our Changing Planet DocURL: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/mtpe/whatis/understanding.html Description: A new approach to studying the Earth's interconnections. Scientific challenge: how do the Earth's land, water, air, and life interact to produce the environment in which we live? Submitted by: Husar Rudolf Sumbitter URL: /MTPEPoster/People/people.html#RudolfHusar Date: 11/26/97 RecID: RudolfHusar1 Comment/Feedback URL: /MTPEPoster/RemoteCFPages/understandingCommentFeedback1.html The task at hand: To create a global image suitable for a 20x10 foot MTPE poster Title: The task at hand: To create a global image suitable for a 20x10 foot MTPE poster DocURL: /MTPEPoster/TheTask.html Description: NASA is designing on a new 10'(h)x 20'(w) Mission to Planet Earth/Earth Observing System conference exhibit backdrop as illustrated on the Home page. The centerpiece is a large synthetic image of the world. This interactive website was set up to seek the input from the community regarding the design of the centerpiece global image. Submitted by: Husar Rudolf Sumbitter URL: /MTPEPoster/People/people.html#RudolfHusar Date: 11/26/97 RecID: RudolfHusar Comment/Feedback URL: /MTPEPoster/TheTaskCommentFeedback1.html
Forum

A new 3D Globe image for Terra

Title: A new 3D Globe image for Terra
Description: Rudy: I am writing at the suggestion of Michael King to request a new 3-D global image similar to the one you provided earlier. Michael felt that while the image you generated--showing 3-D clouds over assimilated NDVI and aerosol and fire pixels--is spectacular, we have used it a LOT recently in our EOS publications. He felt that perhaps we should use a different one in our next publication. (I have an idea in mind; but I'd also like to hear yours.). Our next publication is a Terra (formerly EOS AM-1) poster and general public brochure companion set. The brochure cover will be identical to the poster design.
Submitted by: Herring David
Date: 4/22/99
RecID: Design.DavidHerring

Design choices for the new NASA Terra poster image

Title: Design choices for the new NASA Terra poster image
Description: A new poster is being designed for the NASA Terra Program. The poster is to include a synthetic 3D globe image similar to the one used in the 20 foot EOS exhibit backdrop and poster .
The purpose of this web-based discussion is to build consensus regarding the new symbolic globe design that will properly represent Earth as a living, interacting planet.
Comments regarding the Terra globe design can be submitted below as a Response or as a new Forum item.
Submitted by: Husar Rudolf
Date: 4/20/99
RecID: Design.RudolfHusar

Picture OK for a real (or virtual) kiosk.

Title: Picture OK for a real (or virtual) kiosk.
Description: Your web site is nice looking and easy to understand and to navigate. The picture is worthy of show, especially in a real (or virtual) kiosk. It is quite nice, and deserves to "go public". The points below are meant to be helpful questions that occurred while I was going through the web site. Keep up the goood work.
Submitted by: Chesters Dennis
Date: 2/17/98
RecID: Design.DennisChesters6 Re: Picture OK for a real (or virtual) kiosk.

Re: Picture OK for a real (or virtual) kiosk.
Thanks for the niffty suggestion of a virtual kiosk on the NASA website. Before the virtual reality (VRML) era fully arrives, one could add a few animations, tell a story and make it an informative/learning experience for the kiosk visitors.
Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 2/25/98
RecID: DesignDesign.DennisChesters6.RudolfHusar

Use JPEG not GIF to preserve color.

Title: Use JPEG not GIF to preserve color.
Description: The pictures that get downloaded should not sacrifice color to the dithering that comes with 8-bit GIF. Use JPEG with mild compression to preserve smooth color changes, and don't shy from large images. The GIF images are OK for small screen or brochures.
Submitted by: Chesters Dennis
Date: 2/17/98
RecID: Design.DennisChesters5

Cloud rendering is ragged - use antialiasing?

Title: Cloud rendering is ragged - use antialiasing?
Description: The cloud rendering is sometimes a raggged 3D redrawing of 2D images. Can you render it with anti-aliasing and/or smoother interpolation?
Submitted by: Chesters Dennis
Date: 2/17/98
RecID: Design.DennisChesters4

Globe rendering with VRML

Title: Globe rendering with VRML
Description: The globe would be especially interesting if rendered as a VRML globe that could be manipulated by the web client. Multiple parameters (layers) rendered on the globe are another possibility. This interactive technology is just emerging, and it will be common by the end of the year. See SGI's Cosmo player or Apple's Quicktime 3 VR, for example.
Submitted by: Chesters Dennis
Date: 2/17/98
RecID: Design.DennisChesters3

Biomass burning over sub-saharan Africa?

Title: Biomass burning over sub-saharan Africa?
Description: The mostly red pixels in sub-saharan Africa are a puzzle. The caption implies biomass burning, which is not the case there.
Submitted by: Chesters Dennis
Date: 2/17/98
RecID: Design.DennisChesters2

Where is the aerosol layer?

Title: Where is the aerosol layer?
Description: I don't see an aerosol layer over the ocean. What am I missing?
Submitted by: Chesters Dennis
Date: 2/17/98
RecID: Design.DennisChesters1

I am not registerd - how do I comment?

Title: I am not registerd - how do I comment?
Description: I am not registered to make comments in your Forum. As I understand it, you have to first add my name to the allowed commenters.
Submitted by: Chesters Dennis
Date: 2/17/98
RecID: Design.DennisChesters

Thanks

Title: Thanks
Description: Thanks for you help in producing dramatic data image for our display and AM-1 brochure. It looks great!
Submitted by: King Michael
Date: 2/02/98
RecID: Design.MichaelKing

A suggestion on rendering

Title: A suggestion on rendering
Description: Gee Rudy, pretty impressive. Thanks for letting me preview this. May I suggest that you couple this rendering with the data given on SeaWiFS Imagery in the Baja Region on a daily basis to make this really up to date. Removing tongue from cheek: Nice job. -steve
Submitted by: schwartz stephen e.
Date: 1/12/98
RecID: Design.stephene.schwartz
Hughes STC Corp.
Interests and Activities: Responsible for MTPE Backdrop design, contractor with NASA GSFC.

Husar , Rudolf rhusar@mecf.wustl.edu ,

How about some artistry?

Title: How about some artistry?
Description: The image is very beautifull and, I guess, meaningful for the program. I particularly appreciate the two polar 3D cloud covers, it's impressive. In fact, I have only two comments which you will think may be not very important:
1) there are some misleading colors over the North African deserts. I have the feeling that some very desertic regions are filled with grey or white like clouds certainly because of the specific NDVI values;
2) If you look at the cover of Nature with our Sahara Dust article, you will see that the "artists" of the journal have added sort of halos in the space around the Earth. I think that it might be interesting to test such effects on your image since I found it representative of how people imagine the Greenhouse effect or the Ozone layer. And I don't know how to express it, but I think that it reinforced the message to see the Earth surrounded and "trapped" like this...but I agree that it is very distant from scientific materials ! Well, it's up to you. It was funny, because the scientific editor of Nature sent me a mail to apologize for the graphical effect that he found unrealistic, and he was surprized when I answered that it is beautiful.
Submitted by: Moulin Cyril
Date: 1/25/98
RecID: Design.CyrilMoulin

Earth image: confuses or illuminates?

Title: Earth image: confuses or illuminates?
Description: My reaction to the image of Planet Earth was that it serves he purpose of attracting attention, but would confuse the public. False colors are not easily understood - perhaps that is what we want - and I like a realistic and very detailed image that people come up close and inspect for features they relate to - like home and favorite vacation place, etc. If the image is not going to attempt to be a "map" then the door is open to use color and strange attractors.
Submitted by: Harriss Robert
Date: 1/20/98
RecID: Design.RobertHarriss
Implementation 3D Globe Image Construction Title: 3D Globe Image Construction DocURL: /MTPEPoster/implementation/ImplDescription.htm Description: The 3D Earth image was synthesized from four data layers: land, fires, aerosol optical thickness over the oceans and the clouds. This brief description lists the web data sources and the procedures for the image construction. Submitted by: Husar Rudolf Sumbitter URL: /MTPEPoster/People/people.html#RudolfHusar Date: 2/25/98 RecID: Implementation.RudolfHusar Comment/Feedback URL: /MTPEPoster/implementation/ImplDescriptionCommentFeedback1.html Data Layers A suggestion on rendering Title: A suggestion on rendering DocURL: http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/seawifs_scripts/regions.pl/L1/TC/WestCoast/S1997359210350.L1A_HMBR.box.TC.WestCoast.ppm.gif Description: Gee Rudy, pretty impressive. Thanks for letting me preview this. May I suggest that you couple this rendering with the data given on SeaWiFS Imagery in the Baja Region full on a daily basis to make this really up to date. Removing tongue from cheek: Nice job. -steve Submitted by: schwartz stephen e. Sumbitter URL: /MTPEPoster/People/people.html#stephene.schwartz Date: 1/13/98 RecID: .stephene.schwartz Comment/Feedback URL: /MTPEPoster/RemoteCFPages/S1997359210350.L1A_HMBR.box.TC.WestCoast.ppmCommentFeedback1.html Layer used in the image: Land, Oceanic Aerosol, Clouds (IR) Title: Layer used in the image: Land, Oceanic Aerosol, Clouds (IR) Description: The image uses three data layers: (1) land image from SeaWifs, (2)oceanic aerosol from AVHRR and (3) a cloud IR layer from multiple GOES satellites. The data layers will be described elswhere. Submitted by: Husar Rudolf Sumbitter URL: /MTPEPoster/People/people.html#RudolfHusar Date: 1/3/98 RecID: .RudolfHusar Comment/Feedback URL: /MTPEPoster/RemoteCFPages/CommentFeedback6.html Rendering 3D Rendering Title: 3D Rendering Description: The rendering is done in a perspective projection of (flat LatLon) data layers. The eye is at 55 deg West and 0 deg North. The land and aerosol layers are at the radius of the Earth. The clouds are elevated depending on th IR temperature. Low clouds were removed. Submitted by: Husar Rudolf Sumbitter URL: /MTPEPoster/People/people.html#RudolfHusar Date: 1/3/98 RecID: .RudolfHusar Comment/Feedback URL: /MTPEPoster/RemoteCFPages/CommentFeedback7.html Other
People Pierre BARTHE Last Name: BARTHE First Name: Pierre Personal URL: http://www.mnet.fr/pbarthe E-mail Address: pbarthe@acm.org Organization: PBASoft EURL (France) Organization URL: http://www.pbasoft.com Description: Company products under development : Realtime landscapes visualisation : the PBASoft ESG (Extended Scene Graph technology) enables the visualisation of large scale environments on multiple platforms (renderings are performed either through DirectX or OpenGL): entire planets can be visualized and are handled through the ESG architecture . The product is under test right now and screen shots will be available soon , coming with technical insights in a few from www.pbasoft.com RecID: PierreBARTHE Activity Log: /MTPEPoster/People/ActivityLogs/PierreActivityLog1.html David Herring Last Name: Herring First Name: David E-mail Address: dherring@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: Terra Project Science Organization URL: http://terra.nasa.gov Description: See http://modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/fire_atlas and see http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov RecID: DavidHerring Activity Log: /MTPEPoster/People/ActivityLogs/DavidActivityLog1.html Dennis Chesters Last Name: Chesters First Name: Dennis Personal URL: http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/~chesters/chesters.html E-mail Address: chesters@gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA-Goddard - Climate and Radiation Research Organization URL: http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html Description: GOES Project, upper tropospheric water vapor, total column ozone, data visualization RecID: DennisChesters Activity Log: /MTPEPoster/People/ActivityLogs/DennisActivityLog1.html Cyril Moulin Last Name: Moulin First Name: Cyril E-mail Address: Cyril.Moulin@cea.fr Description: Satellite aerosol detection, ocean color RecID: CyrilMoulin Activity Log: /MTPEPoster/People/ActivityLogs/CyrilActivityLog1.html Robert Harriss Last Name: Harriss First Name: Robert Personal URL: http://ceprofs.tamu.edu/harriss/ E-mail Address: harriss@tamu.edu Organization: Texas A&M U. Organization URL: http://www.tamu.edu Description: Sustainable Development, Remote Sensing, Design for Environment, Conflict Analysis & Dispute Resolution, Urban-Industrial Dynamics, Public Understanding of Science and Technology RecID: RobertHarriss Activity Log: /MTPEPoster/People/ActivityLogs/RobertActivityLog1.html stephen e. schwartz Last Name: schwartz First Name: stephen e. Personal URL: http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/steve/schwartz.html E-mail Address: ses@bnl.gov Organization: brookhaven national laboratory Organization URL: http://www.bnl.gov Description: aerosol geographical distribution and properties relative to radiative forcing of climate RecID: stephene.schwartz Activity Log: /MTPEPoster/People/ActivityLogs/stephen e.ActivityLog1.html Michael King Last Name: King First Name: Michael Personal URL: http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eospso_members/m_king.html E-mail Address: king@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center Organization URL: http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov Description: Initiator and superviser of the MPTE/EOS Backdrom project, EOS Senior Project Scientist RecID: MichaelKing Activity Log: /MTPEPoster/People/ActivityLogs/MichaelActivityLog1.html Winnie Humberson Last Name: Humberson First Name: Winnie E-mail Address: winnie.humberson@gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: Hughes STC Corp. Description: Responsible for MTPE Backdrop design, contractor with NASA GSFC. RecID: WinnieHumberson Activity Log: /MTPEPoster/People/ActivityLogs/WinnieActivityLog1.html Rudolf Husar Last Name: Husar First Name: Rudolf Personal URL: /capita/People/rhusar/rhusar.html E-mail Address: rhusar@mecf.wustl.edu Organization: CAPITA, Washington University Organization URL: /capita/ Description: Image design rationale, implementation, web-based community building RecID: RudolfHusar Activity Log: /MTPEPoster/People/ActivityLogs/RudolfActivityLog1.html Webmaster First Name: Webmaster E-mail Address: support@mecf.wustl.edu Organization: CAPITA, Washington University Description: Website maintenance RecID: Webmaster Activity Log: /MTPEPoster/People/ActivityLogs/WebmasterActivityLog1.html
Acknowledgements Sanjay Limaye Title: Sanjay Limaye DocURL: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/hst/people/limaye.html Description: Sanjay has provided the high resolution (5000X2500) global composite cloud IR image that is used in the project. Submitted by: Husar Rudolf Sumbitter URL: /MTPEPoster/People/people.html#RudolfHusar Date: 12/5/97 RecID: RudolfHusar2 Comment/Feedback URL: /MTPEPoster/RemoteCFPages/limayeCommentFeedback1.html Kari Hoijarvi Title: Kari Hoijarvi Description: Kari designed the three-dimensional rendering algorithm while he was with CAPITA. He is also helping with the operation of the software on the NT operating system. Submitted by: Husar Rudolf Sumbitter URL: /MTPEPoster/People/people.html#RudolfHusar Date: 12/5/97 RecID: RudolfHusar1 Comment/Feedback URL: /MTPEPoster/RemoteCFPages/CommentFeedback5.html Bryan Van Hook Title: Bryan Van Hook DocURL: http://cec.wustl.edu/~bv2/ Description: Bryan is responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of this MTPE/EOS image website. Submitted by: Husar Rudolf Sumbitter URL: /MTPEPoster/People/people.html#RudolfHusar Date: 12/5/97 RecID: RudolfHusar Comment/Feedback URL: /MTPEPoster/RemoteCFPages/cec.wustlCommentFeedback1.html