OpenIR [Open Infrared] : enhancing environmental monitoring through accessible remote sensing, in Indonesia and beyond
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Ducao, Arlene (Arlene Brigoli)
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OpenIR : enhancing environmental monitoring through accessible remote sensing, in Indonesia and beyond
Open Infrared : enhancing environmental monitoring through accessible remote sensing, in Indonesia and beyond
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences.
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Henry Holtzman.
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As the human landscape changes ever more rapidly, environmental change accelerates. Much environmental information is publicly available as infrared satellite data. However, for the general user, this information is difficult to obtain, and even more difficult to interpret. With this in mind, my team and I launched OpenIR (Open Infrared), an ICT (Information Communication Technology) that provides geo-located IR (infrared) satellite data as ondemand map layers, automates environmental feature classification, experiments with flood risk mapping, and interfaces IR data with crowd- and citizen-maps. OpenIR's initial use case is emergency management and environmental monitoring in the economically developing and ecologically vulnerable archipelago of Indonesia, where we conduced initial usability tests in January 2013.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2013. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references.
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2013Department
Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences.