From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-12-08T15:04:01+09:00
Subject: nighttime fun with ruby :wq


i can't put much of what we work on online, but we just put this up for a
conference so i thought i'd share

   http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/nrt/html/mosaic/ut_night/loop/

ruby is driving about 50% of the code that makes these images.  each set (vis,
tir) of data is approximately 10gb of input data - though these are obviously
thumbnails - and burns up something like 1hr of compute time.

if anyone is interested we are working to make this data publically availible
via a mapserver wms/wcs interface sometime in the next few months.  mapserver
is a http interface so i may whip up a ruby api so you can, for instance, pull
a cloud image over new-york state down easily.

regards.

-a
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