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Mon, 04/23/2007 - 23:34 — Bruce Caron

The Data and Information Application Layer (DIAL) ACCESS project uses plug-in technology to add NASA data visualization and access tools to the Adobe Director™ multimedia application authoring environment. This means that, with a little additional work, stand-alone data-rich applications can be authored as easily as any other software authored using Director™.

Latest News from the Institute

Mon, 04/23/2007 - 23:06 — Bruce Caron

Below you will find out what is currently happening or about to happen at the Institute

NMRI Technologies

Mon, 04/23/2007 - 23:05 — Bruce Caron

The Institute has staff and partners who are expert in a wide range of media and information technologies, as well as earth science, geography, sociology, and marine science.

The New Media Research Institute has wide-ranging interests in the theories and applications of information technology in education. We are particularly interested in the promise of geographic information systems (GIS) and in the future role of digital libraries. Below is a partial list of our current interests.

  • Data access software applications for education
  • Data visualization theories and application development
  • Data metadata and server-side and middleware issues
  • Multicasting in education
  • Digital library organization
  • Smart clients for digital library users
  • Personal digital collections
  • Sharable personal digital libraries
  • 3- and 4D displays of information
  • Data fusion between raster and vector data sources
  • Distributed delivery systems
  • Open access publishing informatics and sociology
  • Social organization of digital communities

NMRI Partners

Mon, 04/23/2007 - 23:03 — Bruce Caron

The Institute works closely with scientists, researchers, and educators at several institutions, adding value to their work and adding their insights to the efforts of the Institute.

NMRI Projects

Mon, 04/23/2007 - 23:01 — Bruce Caron

The Research Institute partners with major university and government research efforts to develop advanced informatics solutions for education and public use. The list of active projects is in the menu above (on the right).

People at the Institute

Mon, 04/23/2007 - 22:59 — Bruce Caron

The New Media Research Institute is a collaboration between in-house staff, the very active board of directors at the New Media Studio, and a constellation of partnering scientists, graphic artists, and media professionals.
Here is our current staff:Studio Staff

DIAL PROJECT MAIN PAGE

Fri, 03/30/2007 - 21:11 — Bruce Caron

Welcome to the DIAL project!

One this site we will be blogging and commenting and basically providing all the information you need to learn if DIAL data-rich multimedia authoring is right for your needs.

DIAL IS:
A powerful and quick technology to build data-rich user interfaces on top of current and proposed NASA server-side and middle-ware data services.

Funded by NASA ACCESS CA: NNX06AB08A September, 2006
Project PI: Bruce Caron bruce AT nmri.org
Project Technical lead: Marty Landsfeld marty AT nmri.org

Building a Web 2.5 social network and community

Tue, 12/02/2008 - 23:53 — Bruce Caron

The Research Institute was given a contract from UCSB to help manage the planning phase of a proposal to the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. This proposal, DigitalOcean, involves the development of a dedicated social network (ECOSNet) linked to other Web 2.0 services, such as Flickr and Google Ocean, and building a strong community of users who will provide content for the system.

Client Side Technology Infusion Working Group

Thu, 09/27/2007 - 20:46 — Bruce Caron

The Client Side Technology Infusion Working Group is looking at issues of data access, analysis, and display in the world outside the Internet browser environment. Today, as it was ten years ago, probably 95% of the scientists who use NASA/NOAA (etc.) data sets do so with commercial software products such as Matlab, IDL, ENVI, or ARCgis.

NASA ACCESS DIAL Project Technology Real-Time ZACA Fire Animation

Thu, 09/27/2007 - 00:43 — Bruce Caron
Animation of real-time MODIS fire data on the Zaca incident

Started July 4, the Zaca fire burned for nearly two months before it was contained on September 2, 2007. Nearby Santa Barbara City residents watched and waited while this, the largest fire in the history of the county (240,207 acres total), moved ever closer to the inhabited front country. As firefighters battled, NASA's MODIS Active Fire Mapping Program captured the active burn area several times a day. At the end of August, with towering heat clouds in the sky and ash covering the ground in Santa Barbara City, ACCESS DIAL project technical lead, Marty Landsfeld, noticed satellite data images in the local papers and determined that an animation of the progression of the fire would help inform the population. In one afternoon, using the DIAL technology, he was able to assemble an animation of 104 MODIS data images, including their date and time information. On August 28, the Zaca Fire NASA Data Animation was hosted on the web at NASA Zaca fire data animation.

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