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Fluxnet move to Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1

Dan Fay — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:25:47 GMT

Savas has been coding again :-) - he's updated the FLUXNET Data set visualization to Silverlight v2.

Fluxnet move to Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1

It's been a while since I touched the Fluxnet code. Given that the original release was built on Silverlight v1.1, I put some time today in re-implementing it in Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1.

Enjoy.

Fluxnet move to Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1

MapCruncher Beta for Microsoft Virtual Earth

Dan Fay — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:42:17 GMT

Just tested out the MapCrucher Beta for VE - it really runs great. As soon as I get a few more cycles...I'll post a couple of the maps I did...

MapCruncher™ beta for Microsoft® Virtual Earth™ is a newly-released, innovative tool that allows anyone to import maps, layer them, and share them on a website using the Microsoft Virtual Earth platform. Quickly combine your drawn-to-scale map with the Microsoft Virtual Earth environment to create a unique, composite view. Supplement existing road and aerial imagery with detailed custom information by easily importing entire maps into the Virtual Earth environment.
Learn more about MapCruncher.

Windows Live Dev : MapCruncher Beta for Microsoft Virtual Earth

PopFly open to Public Beta

Dan Fay — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:12:04 GMT

It's great to see that PopFly is now open to a larger audience via it's public beta.

I especially like the PopFly mashup Deb Agarwal (Berkeley Water Center) did with the AmeriFlux datasets they are working with - a good example of how you can visualize scientific data.

MSR Networked Embedded Sensing Toolkit updated

Dan Fay — Wed, 09 May 2007 05:54:37 GMT

The MSR Sense toolkit was updated to v.2a1 and is available for download

The MSR Networked Embedded Sensing Toolkit (MSR Sense) is a collection of software tools that allow users to collect, process, archive, and visualize data from a sensor network. The current version contains: a reconfigurable microserver execution environment (miuSEE), a small library implementing signal processing and event detection algorithms, an extension to Excel 2003 to import, visualize and processing sensor data, and interface to SQL server to archive and retrieve data, and a microserver interaction console miuSIC) for users to configure and control microservers. All software is implemented in C# under visual studio 2005 and .NET framework 2.0. Please refer to http://research.microsoft.com/nec/msrsense for more information.

Source: Microsoft Research Networked Embedded Sensing Toolkit

[Data Service] Microsoft Project Codename "Astoria"

Dan Fay — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:15:08 GMT

Time to think about how Scientific data could utilized the Astoria service...

The goal of Microsoft Codename Astoria is to enable applications to expose data as a data service that can be consumed by web clients within a corporate network and across the internet. The data service is reachable over HTTP, and URIs are used to identify the various pieces of information available through the service. Interactions with the data service happens in terms of HTTP verbs such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE, and the data exchanged in those interactions is represented in simple formats such as XML and JSON.
We are delivering this first early release of Astoria as a Community Tech Preview you can download and also as an experimental online service you can access over the internet.

Source: Microsoft Project Codename "Astoria"

Zoomatron-NOAA Charts, MapCruncher, and Virtual Earth

Dan Fay — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:10:22 GMT

Very neat mashup utiizing Virtual Earth and MapCruncher - I really like the Mississippi Meanders one.

NOAA Charts and Virtual Earth

Choose a state from the dropdown to the left, and then pick a chart to look at.
These are government-issue navigation charts overlaid on the Virtual Earth (http://local.live.com) map of the United States. You get all the advantages of both - the detailed navigation of the charts and the draggable, zoomable mappiness of the maps. You can make the charts translucent so you can see the map through it.
For fun, check out the Images link for unusual ways to play with the Virtual Earth mapping tools.

Source: Zoomatron Home