Smarr previously served as Chair, NASA Earth System Science & Applications Advisory Committee and as a member of the NASA Advisory Council to the NASA Administrator. This is often used to detect planets that don’t orbit around host stars or exoplanets that are very far from Earth. Frost made another effective use of the imagery by sharing the NEXRAD (Next Generation Radar for near real-time imaging of smoke reflectivity) and NASA satellite imaging with automatic fire locations plotted on Google Earth with the Tijuana Police Command Center. Police Luis Algorri and Command Center CTO Pedro Flores were able to use these images as the basis for which to reassure the citizens of Tijuana as their city was covered with smoke from the Harris fire (which had burned into Mexico). And he brought them together to work directly with SDSU’s Frost and Graham, who then produced a whole series of secondary images for distribution, not just on the website, but directly to key county and city officials and the media. Frost added: “The dramatic increase in computational ability, connectivity to the Internet, and manner of serving it made the website a robust and highly available asset during the fires.” Smarr is the director of Calit2 and PI on the OptIPuter project.

Graham used the dedicated light path from SDSU to Calit2 on CENIC experimental fiber (OptIPuter) to move large amounts of data from SDSU to the Calit2 servers. Graham rebuilt the computers to provide different web services on several machines and collectively provide major capabilities that were served to the San Diego region and world from Calit2. The Calit2 servers are being administered by Calit2 collaborator John Graham, who is the chief scientist for SDSU’s Visualization Center. The Police Command Center also had a video conference connection to the SDSU Viz Center, where images pulled from the Calit2 server were shared with the Tijuana leadership. This presented a big problem for a Calit2 affiliate. Eric Frost, a long-time Calit2 affiliate and co-director of SDSU’s Center for Information Technology and Infrastructure (CITI, home of the SDSU Visualization Center). AAPT resource center Balloons as molecules Free physics textbooks reviewed Shade Tree Physics Amuseument Park Physics NSF Fellowships: grad students assist K-12 teachers Back of the Envelope Creating Physics Understanding “New way to learn,” from NSF Frontiers Comp. San Diego, CA, November 1, 2007 — Researchers from the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), the Visualization Center at San Diego State University (SDSU) and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center worked together to develop near real-time value-added, satellite-based imagery of last week’s massive and multiple wildfires in San Diego.

They also populated a second site, the San Diego 2007 Wildfires Wiki. Calit2, San Diego State Univ. The data and satellite imagery came from NASA (Predator, MODIS and EO-1), San Diego county, the military (P3, U2 and Global Hawk data besides numerous others) and dozens of other sources who joined in. On Monday October 22 around noon, as the fires raced westward, Smarr emailed the Goddard MODIS and EO-1 satellite image teams within NASA to ask if it would be possible to speed up their processing of fire images so they could be used in time for fire control. One of the greatest needs in the recent fire storms was accurate and timely information, and frequent updates to keep up with the unusually fast-moving fires. Information about the fire storms was sought by literally millions of people locally, nationally and internationally. This demo is a great excuse to convince OTHER people to jump around with boxes on their faces, while you stand back and watch the fun! The mobility of the North Dakota suit can be attributed to its low operating pressure; while the North Dakota suit was field tested at a pressure of 1 psi (6.9 kPa; 52 Torr) differential, NASA’s EMU suit operates at a pressure of 4.7 psi (32 kPa; 240 Torr), a pressure designed to supply approximately sea-level oxygen partial pressure for respiration (see discussion above).

2) mixed atmosphere at either sea level (101.3 kPa or 14.69 psi) or reduced (55.2 to 70.3 kPa or 8.01 to 10.20 psi) pressure. Being able to share the imagery across the border via the Internet enabled the Tijuana leadership to use technology for the public safety of its citizens. Rather than climbing into a full sized aircraft, we use the video camera to shrink ourselves down and take a Virtual Reality ride inside the box. If you obtain a small box, a shoe box or large cereal box, open up one end, and stick your face in, you will have the “poor man’s version” of the video camera box. Of course, always try to protect your camera. It was crucial for the people leading the fire response and the firefighters in the trenches, as well as the hundreds of thousands of people directly impacted by the fires, to see and know where the fires were, how big they were and where they were headed. This information was crucial to officials leading the fire response and the firefighters in the trenches, as well as the hundreds of thousands of people directly impacted by the fires. The USA is in a very invidious position right now, having interfered in the regional politics of so many countries that it has created the very terrorism it now uses as an excuse to strip its people of their rights.