AlanFederman
San Jose, CA
Internet Infrastructure Architect / Robotics Geek/ PhD Oceanographer
A person can be an artist in anything. Some artists work in oils, other in pastels, my art is High Technology. I am interested in using technology to teach and improve the human condition. the web empowers collaboration.
AlanFederman is at home at http://federman.best.vwh.net.
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commented on The World grows a Planetary Skin over 2 years ago.
This is very exciting. I am a PhD oceanographer who worked at NASA Ames from 1995-2005. One of the accomplishments I am most proud of is called WorldWind. In many way similar to Google Earth, developed as an Opensource project at a fraction of the cost, it allowed one to pull in different data sets and view them on a Planetary Surface. Alas - NASA is so big, sometimes it doesn't recognize the true potential of some of its own projects. The issue is NASA collects terabytes of EOS d...