[Bessig] Fwd: Re: [ESIP-all] Looking for recent earth observations of the Tasman Sea
Anne Wilson
anne.wilson at lasp.colorado.edu
Fri Aug 9 11:48:57 EDT 2013
Dear all,
For those of you that haven't heard, Evi Nemeth, a faculty member in the
CU Computer Science department and a very important figure in the UNIX
world, has been missing at sea since June 4. Here is some info:
http://evxx.com/.
Searchers are looking for data over that region. If you know of any
such data please let them know.
The web page includes information about making donations to the search.
Anne
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Subject: Re: [ESIP-all] Looking for recent earth observations of the
Tasman Sea
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 08:17:10 -0600
From: David Manthos <david.manthos at skytruth.org>
To: Paul Woods <paul at skytruth.org>
CC: info at skytruth.org <info at skytruth.org>, barbara.j.thompson at gmail.com
<barbara.j.thompson at gmail.com>,
earth-space-science-informatics at lists.nasa.gov Science Informatics
<earth-space-science-informatics at lists.nasa.gov>,
<esip-all at lists.esipfed.org> <esip-all at lists.esipfed.org>
Sorry, meant to paste this link:
http://blog.skytruth.org/2012/06/bilge-dumping-busted-using-satellite.html
-D
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:09 AM, David Manthos
<david.manthos at skytruth.org <mailto:david.manthos at skytruth.org>> wrote:
Unfortunately hi-res optical is the only imaging tool to really have
a chance of picking up wreckage or a vessel that size in distress.
Tomnod has that, to the extent it is possible.
I'm sure it's a long shot, but did the vessel have an automatic
identification system (AIS) transponder? If so, it may be worth
contacting folks like ExactEarth with satellites that pick up those
signals, to at least get a last known position. This blog post
explains the extent of our capabilities before Envisat died last
year, as you can see, the Dona Liberta is a tiny white speck on
radar satellite image, even though it is much larger than the Nina.
Now radar satellite is a very expensive proposition, and would not
pick up vessels so small, let alone a life raft with no power. Sorry
we can't help more and certainly hope they are found and all is well.
-D
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Paul Woods <paul at skytruth.org
<mailto:paul at skytruth.org>> wrote:
Frazmo et al:
Have you folks looked at Tomnod?
http://tomnod.com/nod/challenge/ninarescue2
The've got hi-res imagery form Digital Globe.
Paul
On Aug 8, 2013, at 11:23 PM, frazmo <frazmo at gmail.com
<mailto:frazmo at gmail.com>> wrote:
> It may be a long shot, but the folks at Skytruth might be able
> to help with this issue of the lost ship. See their web site at:
>
> http://skytruth.org/
>
> and the recent article from the Washington Post Sunday
> magazine, which is informative and could be of general
> interest to the community:
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/skytruth-the-environment-and-the-satellite-revolution/2013/07/31/3a1d181a-d52b-11e2-b05f-3ea3f0e7bb5a_story.html
>
> The same kinds of techniques they use to find illegal fishing
> ships could be relevant to the question of what happened to
> the Schooner SV Niña. Best and cheers,
>
> Steve Young
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Joe Hourcle
> <oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov
> <mailto:oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov>> wrote:
>
>
> I'm not much of one for observations pointed down from
> spacecraft.
>
> Does anyone know of any near-real-time observations of
> sufficient spatial resolution to help?
>
> (that they're actually allowed to talk about, of course)
>
> -Joe
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: Barbara Thompson <barbara.j.thompson at gmail.com
> <mailto:barbara.j.thompson at gmail.com>>
> > Date: August 8, 2013 6:26:43 PM EDT
> > To: Joe Hourclé <oneiros at annoying.org
> <mailto:oneiros at annoying.org>>
> > Subject: Virtual data pointing in the other direction?
> >
> > Joe,
> >
> > My friend Ralph is leading a search and rescue effort
> for a ship that's
> > been missing on the Tasman Sea. They were last heard
> from June 4. We're
> > trying to get images from May 28 to the present
> (emphasis on the earlier
> > part of that window) to see if we can get any clue of
> what's happened to
> > them. There are 7 people on board - one of the people
> on the Schooner SV
> > Niña is Evi Nemeth, author of many famous Unix/Linux
> sysadmin manuals. : (
> >
> > Google granted us a free license to Google Earth Pro,
> but it still doesn't
> > have images that are recent enough. I wrote Google to
> see if they could
> > give us more recent images, but I haven't heard back.
> I'm kind of lost
> > when it comes to Earth-pointed data, but then I realized
> I have a friend
> > who is involved in Informatics for the American
> Geophysical Union. : )
> >
> > Any idea how to get high-res data? The ship is 70 feet
> long, so the 1.5-m
> > resolution stuff in google earth would be fine. Until
> we get images,
> > they're focusing on ocean current models + drift models
> for other abandoned
> > ships to help the aerial searchers more clearly refine
> the expected
> > location for the ship.
> >
> > The ship was fairly well equipped for a 3-week cruise,
> so it's possible for
> > them to survive with their supplies + fishing for
> several months.
> >
> > Any advice is appreciated. We're posting info on the
> efforts at:
> >
> > http://evxx.com/
> >
> > Anyhow, if you have any idea how to get high-resolution
> data over the
> > Tasman Sea, I'd be very happy to hear it.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Barbara
>
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