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NY-NJ 2012 meeting

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This meeting occurred on Feb 28, 2012 Notes here: http://goo.gl/tL0Ka

Review status of 2011 Projects

  • GLAM
  • Occupy
  • travels: Eymund at PICNIC, affiliated chapters

2012 Scheduled projects

  • Equipment check-out: Williamsburg and LES
  • Ongoing at Gowanus Canal:

    • process fall images, try species ID - Gena, John, Liz
    • GLAM printing and gallery exhibits for Four Seasons of GLAM 2011: Central Booking Nov2012, others? - Liz, Hans, Eymund
    • GLAM aerial mapping in vis + infrared, continued? - Eymund, Hans, John, Leif, Liz
    • GO SCUM thermal fishing bob - Eymund, Leif, Jeff
    • Overall water quality toolkit, pending EPA grant - Liz
  • March Mapping Madness workshops to welcome Kickstarter Backers. Dedicated page: March Mapping Madness NY-NJ-CT. Need good ideas of sites that need imaging. Location partner: StudioX. Any others?

    • Jen Hudon, Manpriya, Liz, Oscar
  • March 6 & 8 Nitin Swahney's Parsons civic media workshop class, and they are also interested in coming out to a field event.

    • Liz, Eymund, Leif, Oscar.
  • March 24 -- iLAND symposium aerial mapping workshop in village $100 honorarium

    • Eymund, Shannon, Oscar, (Jen)
  • March 23-25 Water Hackathon, hosted at Parsons, with Ushahidi, Pachube

    • Leif, Liz, Ed Borden, Heather Leson, Joe Saavedra
  • April 20-22 EcoHackNYCII, hosted at Parsons, with Vizzuality, UNEP, etc, for hardware, software, and visualization. Feature project: air column monitoring on balloon tethers.

    • Liz, Lee, Lela, Leif, +++

Possible projects

  • East Harlem Tutorial Program - Thermal imaging on facades / busting delinquent landlords
    • Sara, Jeni Wightman?
  • Structure from Motion - Bronx River hyper3d before and after leaf out
    • Whitney, Gena,
  • 596acres.org - aerial mapping vacant lots to be transformed
    • Paula, Eric
  • figment http://newyork.figmentproject.org/ March 31 deadline
  • Newtown Creek -- what was that particulate matter?
  • Rutgers campus. geomancer prof.
  • iLAB residency Jess Lailye Liz

Media events upcoming

  • Economist - aerial mapping
  • Time - aerial mapping
  • New Scientist - thermal fishing bob