[Geowanking] You Spy Networks @ Coachella 2007

[Jeffrey Johnson]

As a 3x black rock city veteran (99,00,01) :) I of course would love
to fly this kind of thing over BRC. The idea on the commercial
sponsorship side of things is to get our gear paid for ... we are a
bunch of poor geospatial hacker types (like almost everyone on this
list I guess). Anyway, we WILL get one of these systems somehow. I am
contributing to the ground processing effort, so we will all figure
out how to get one over here to the states soon.

So ... stay in touch ... see you on the Playa this year ... I will be
the guy with the VR glasses on :)

Jeff

On 1/31/07, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jeffrey
>
> I've been thinking about similar efforts for DIY remote sensing over Burning
> Man (minus the commercial sponsorship).
> So I'm very interested in what you're proposing, helping, and seeing if
> there could be any overlap in the Black Rock Desert.
>
> Pasted in below, my quick take on the idea
> -Mikel
>
>
> Over one week, Black Rock City is assembled and destroyed, in an intense
> recapitulation of urbanization over history. It's an ideal experimental
> ground for anyone interested in the life cycle of cities.
>
> The ultimate goal of this project is a low cost, remote sensing platform
> which takes a photo every minute for the entire week of Burning Man. The
> latest imagery is relayed back to the ground, for all sorts of event
> feedback (find friends, remote sensing art). Post-event assemble that week
> of imagery into a time lapse movie.
>
> This is no small technical task. And an extreme environment. But just as
> other facets of GIS have been amatuerized, remote sensing is poised to
> become a democratic technology. Why wait for NASA or Google to fly over?
> These guys aren't...
> http://del.icio.us/mikel_maron/diysensors%2Bremotesensing
>
> Over 2007, the aim is to attract skilled people to the project, design, and
> prototype with a limited version for this year, and aim for a complete
> project in 2008.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius at gmail.com>
> To: geowanking at lists.burri.to
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:17:15 PM
> Subject: [Geowanking] You Spy Networks @ Coachella 2007
>
>
> Hey list,
>
> Don't know if everyone here is familiar with the new pict'earth
> imaging system. If not, the easiest way to check it out is by watching
> some videos on our new website http://youspy.tv
>
> Anyway, my buddies and I have hatched a plan to use this kind of
> system at a large music festival on the west coast in late April
> http://coachella.com/ ... Check out our preliminary proposal @
> http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfp7hjmm_17dncj6q&revision=_published
>
> We have tried all the normal channels to get in touch with people at
> Coachella and see if this thing can fly, and I left a message for
> Michael Jones CTO of google earth this morning and some emails
> previously, but no word back yet.
>
> So, if anyone on the list has a better connection to anyone that can
> help us, we would appreciate the help. These systems are totally cool,
> and I am sure you can all appreciate that. We will of course need all
> the help we can get if we are going to pull this off, so if anyone is
> interested, send me a mail or catch me on gtalk.
>
> --
> Jeffrey Johnson
> ortelius at gmail.com
> http://ortelius.googlepages.com/
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