2 Degrees To SensorWeb
ESIP Federation Meeting, Jan 7th, 2009
Washington DC
Pat G. Cappelaere
pat@cappelaere.com
http://blog.geobliki.com
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NASA SensorWeb 8
✓ California Fires
✓ Myanmar Cyclone
✓ Zambezi Flood...
Support Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Efforts
Provide End-Users Customized Data They Can Use To Make Decisions In the Field
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A NASA ESTO Technology Project With OGC Standards

Cross Domain SensorWeb
Joint DOD/Civilian SensorWeb Support For Disaster Assistance
Droughts
Hurricanes
Fires
Floods
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SensorWeb Goal 2008
• Moore’s Law Of SensorWeb
• Double Assets Every 18 months
• Double Products Every 18 months
• Double Users Every 18 months
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SWE
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DEPENDING ON HOW YOU LOOK AT IT, IT MAY
GET COMPLEX
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Another Way to Redraw It
SERVIR/CATHALAC
Red Cross
NGIT
USGS IKHANA
MODIS
NASA SensorWeb
DOD
SPOT
GMU
JPL
AFRICOM
GEOSS
RCMRD
Hubs
NOAA Users
CA Firefighters Services
Sensors
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Small World Network
The Law of The Few: Connectors, Maven and Salesmen
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On April 7 1994, \"Kevin Bacon is the Center of the Universe\"
In 2007, Bacon started a charitable
organization named SixDegrees.org.
The trivia game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is based on the
concept of the small world phenomenon and rests on the
assumption that any actor can be linked through his or her
film roles to actor Kevin Bacon
Every Actor has a Bacon Number! 9

Every Scientist has an Erdös Number
Scientists and mathematicians have been
calculating their Erdös number for years. Paul
Erdös was the Kevin Bacon of
mathematicians, having published more than
1400 papers with numerous collaborators.
Anyone who was a co-author with Erdös has
an Erdös number of one. Their collaborators,
in t