SOS MAP Frequently Asked Questions

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• SOS MAP™:Surreal Object Synthesis Multimedia Analysis Product.
  Surreal Object Synthesis: Object morphology having x,y,z,t coordinates and attributes.
  Multimedia Analysis Product: Synthesize a model paradigm from Vector and Raster image-object-data. Drape image layers on DEM TINs, place shapes (lakes-streams, trees-vegetation, roads, houses, etc...) and go on 3D Fly-by of Perspective Views. SOS: (Points: 911 calls, MOW clients, housing, utilities); (Lines: country boundaries through time, utilities, transportation); (Area-Volume-Time: Hydrology, Wetlands, Sub-surface hydrology, Oceanography, Weather, Climate, Vegetation, Biology, Soils, Geology, Volcanism, Tectonics, Energy {air, sunlight, thermal (wood, peat, coal, oil, geothermal, radiant, nuclear), water}, and Natural Resources).
  MAP: (Urban-population growth) (City: Tax - Survey plats; Engineer: road, water, sewer, electrical, gas, phone, cable, radio, cell phone structures, microwave antennae, sirens, public address; Planning: SIC coded structures; Fire and Police: address and routing); (Retail sales location location location {real estate}, {warehouse-store-shelf-product placement-location}); (Disasters: snow, ice, hail, lightning, tornado, hurricane, flood, drought, disease, pests, deforestation, fire, volcano, earthquake, landslide, crime-war-politics-activities).
  Delphinian Open Source modelers-scene generators: Model Scene Editor, liquidgas game development kit by exHaust, the Pythian Project: a Computer Role Playing Game traversing the earth. Geoblock for geoscience datasets is built upon the Open Source GL Scene Delphian component.
  There are several Open Source C modelers: OpenFX is "an Open-Source 3D modeling, animation and rendering suite", flightgear is "an Open-Source Flight Simulator", Crystal Space is a 3D modeler. The Virtual Terrain Project gathers information and tracks progress in areas such as procedural scene construction, feature extraction, and rendering algorithms. The Open-Source VTP plans-hopes to digitize the world through virtually everyone doing their portion of the planet... unfortunately everyone has their method-file formats... SEDRIS™ :The Source for Environmental Representation and Interchange: "SEDRIS™ technologies provide the means to represent environmental data (terrain, ocean, air and space), and promote the unambiguous, loss-less and non-proprietary interchange of environmental data." (the 00's format) NIMA has farmed out their production and the source is (no longer...much less) public domain... ETL..TEC has gone closed to the public... WES (Waterways Experiment Station) won't even answer the phone. (Jordan where are you? Seems like the Captain took the code out to Utah.) Or it could be the link: Corps of Engineers, Research centers, Cold Regions, WES. Terrain Modeling Project Office of NIMA aka Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) is the Government POC for Terrain Modeling. "TMPO exists to serve the Modeling & Simulation (M&S) community and serve as DoD's Executive Agent (EA) for Terrain." USGS Center for Integration of Natural Disaster Information (CINDI) topics: Drought, Earthquake, Flood, Geomagnetism, Hurricane & Coastal Storm, Landslide, Volcano, Wildfire, and Wildlife Disease.

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