Call for business partners
My goal
is to bring to market a new and operational
solution
to the use of multispectral or hyperspectral remote sensing imagery
for
the assessment and management of the coastal zone habitats.
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4SM presently has over 30,000 lines of ANSI C++
code in one single 4SM.c source code.
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Plain
programming: I am not a trained programmer.
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Controlled by a bash script command line, no
graphic interface yet.
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Processed up to 17 wavebands fairly large
hyperspectral mosaic
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File
structure: 4SM supports PCIgeomatica image formats File interleaving and
Band
interleaving.
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Needs to be consolidated, to be
made available to WinXP users, and to support some other upmarket image
processing environments like ENVI, ERDAS, ERMAPPER, ...
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- SUPER
USER for two years:
- cpuid is a program to find the
CPUID information of the Intel or AMD x86 processors
- I can
grant you unlimited
and free use of executable 4SM for two years
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your Intel or AMD x86
machine through Linux's cpuid
command.
- FTP upload: if
you provide me with access to your ftp site, then I can upload my CDROM
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FTP
download:
if you provide me with access to your ftp site, then I can
download
your image, process it on my machine, and then upload the result onto
your ftp site hopefully the next day.
- prefered
format is .img or GEOTIF
- raw
U8 or U16 data, NOT atmospherically corrected, NOT enhanced
- UTM
georeferenced
- with
relevant seatruth data:
- depth
sounding lines are prefered to depth soundings
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Corporate
VPN = PRIVACY
- I have some experience of
working on a corporate computer through a Virtual Private
Network:
- They
had set up Linux/ggv/cpuid and PCI on their corporate MS-Windows
Intel-386 system, and
given me Read/Write/Execute permissions on one of their directories.
- Through
a broadband connection,
I was able to open a session on their machine, and process several
of their
hyperspectral images over the week end: they were ready for the next
monday morning!
- That
was from
my hotel room; it
could as well have been from my home. I really enjoyed working this
smartest of ways: it was most efficient.
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Send me the details for a VPN setup on my WinXP (or Ubuntu-Linux)
session, and I shall endeavour to process your image in my
allocated directory on your Intel-386 machine over a broadband
connection. This needs the following system calls to work: gedit,
ggv, chmod, rm, mkdir, dir, cp, zip, bzip2, gcc, whoami, cpuid
- No fuss: your
image/seatruth data are protected: I can't copy them out of my
allocated directory
- Monitor: you can
monitor the progress as I process your image
- Communication: we
can interact as I process your
image
- Fastest: you can
inspect the results in real time
- Free
4SM license: I want to grant you free 4SM
license for your image, in exchange for a copy of your image and
sea-truth data.
- Free 4SM license: how
about I get a copy of five of your existing favorite images,
complete with a copy of your sea-truth data. In return:
- I process these
images, complete with sea-truth exercise
- I
send you back the result of this work on CD, complete with PCI
file.pix,
4SM
executable code, 4SM
command line, and
ancillary files
- You
grant me permission to use this work for promotional purpose
- I grant you a free license for
your next five images of comparable license cost.
- Customized tutorials:
I can put together 4SM
tutorials for your favorite study cases.
- Teaching students: I
have experience in teaching shallow
water modeling.
- This
needs a full day, then one or two days for practicals.
- Why
not I teach your students through some kind of
teleconferencing?
- We
could even put together and advertise a tutorial DVD.
- GPL: after
so many years in isolation, I might as well release 4SM under some
flavor of GPL license.
I
just need some encouragements and support.
you
name it: we need to talk
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? Where is the market
?
As
of january 2009, 4SM is a 14 years development.
Can you afford to invest in such a lengthy development?
Shall you postpone your shallow water
applications until something like 4SM comes in the open for
free?
Is it possible that there is no commercial
potential in this application?
Why is nobody prepared to pay for a training in
4SM, for the use of 4SM?
We need to team up.
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intel386 core duo 32
bits 
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My
workstation: Toshiba P300 Intel 386 portable PC:
Intel Centrino Core Duo 2.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 17" screen 1440*900.
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My operating
system: Ubuntu Linux_32 bits/Gnome/bash.
Ubuntu Linux is "for human beings", it is free,
it installs like a dream in "dual boot" on a Windows XP/Vista machine.
I say:
go for it!
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4SM code
is
proprietary
;
it is written and compiled in ANSI C++.
- 4SM
system calls: 4SM calls some executables or Linux commands
- gmtset , psbasemap, pstext
, psxy, and psscale: 4SM
writes some scripts which call
a few
modules of GMT from U. of Hawaii (please note that GMT may be
installed using Ubuntu's Synaptic Package Manager). These
executables are included in the 4sm.calls.zip zipfile
- shp2text:
using this executable, 4SM converts shapefiles to textfile SHP.txt, for
use with the -Recode
argument. This
executable is included in the 4sm.calls.zip zipfile
- wget, kghostview and cpuid: install them using
Ubuntu's Synaptic Package Manager
- kghostview:
default PostScript viewer in 4SM. If you use another viewer, you have
to place a -Calls/epsviewer_yourviewer
argument in your commandline
- firefox: default
browser in 4SM. If you use another browser, you have to place a -Call/browser_yourbrowser
argument in your commandline
- gedit:
default text editor in 4SM. If you use another texteditor, you have
to place a -Call/texteditor_yourtexteditor
argument in your commandline
- chmod, rm, mkdir, dir, cp, zip,
bzip2, whoami come with the Linux distribution
- cpuid: if you want
to become a superuser
of 4SM
- wget: if you want to download/update a mirror copy of 4SM website on your computer/network
- Compiler: 4SM is
compiled
under Linux/Gnome/bash: " gcc
-lm -w code.c o binary"
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Image
format: image.pix from PCIgeomatica, whether
band-interleaded or file-interleaved.
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Image preparation and display:
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I
formerly used ImageWorks and EASI from
PCI .
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Now I only use OpenEV for
image display.
I
still need evidence that it is time and worth for me to purchase a PCI license.
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I would like to develop a GUI with Qt Designer
or GLADE
in order to manage the 4SM command line.
This 1440*900 screen display shows
- the tmnov tutorial command
line script,
- the OPENEV display of
the tmnov.pix image created through 4SM's_MakePIX,
complete with georeferencing
- and some of my XTERM
terminal where tmnov.pix image is being processed.
- This
demonstrates that the OPENEV solution is workable for all, and FREE!
- Accelerated
X graphics is advisable though, as OPENEV tends to hang: see "OpenEV
Performance Tuning:
Accelerated OpenGL Support" in OPENEV's Help
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- I tend to think that 4SM
should work fine with any flavour of Linux.
- I use the GNOME environment in
32-bits Ubuntu-Intrepid-Ibex dual-boot install
- if at all possible, do the same,
unless you have good reasons
- Ask your computer admin to
check that
- 4SM.2.06 executable runs:
your CPU must be
able to run the executables that run on my
own Intel Centrino CoreDuo CPU 32 bits Linux install:
- if
in doubt, grab a Toshiba Satellite
laptop or similar
- 4SM's
system calls can be satisfied:
- gmtset , psbasemap, pstext
, psxy, and psscale
work fine
- shp2text
works fine
- gedit
works fine
- kghostview works fine
- cpuid works fine
- OPENEV works fine, FWTOOLS is
only available in 32 bits for Linux or for Windows
- Chances are that your local
flavour of Linux should be OK.
- UBUNTU: it's only that I was
so much
relieved when I came across Ubuntu three years ago, after years of
meddling on my own with RedHat, then Fedora: now I can really be an
administrator on my own laptop:
- I only do basic things
- almost everything basic in
Ubuntu has been made "for human beings"!
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64 bits
- 64 bits is new ground to me.
For now, 4SM, OPENEV and ancillary executables are all 32 bits
executables for Linux.
Your sysadmin is the one to teach us about these concerns.
- Sorry: 64bits
Ubuntu requires an AMD processor!
- Or may be not
- My machine can do both 64 and 32
bits.
When installing Ubuntu_Intrepid_Ibex three months ago, I
installed in 32
bits. They also offer a 64 bits install: I should try that some day on
my
same P300 Toshiba machine.
- 4SM executable
- My present 4SM.2.06
executable on my website is compiled on a 32 bits
dual-boot install of Ubuntu_Intrepid_Ibex.
- System calls
But then you have to worry whether the system calls will work:
- kghostview
- the GMT executables:
psbasemap, pstext, psxy, psscale, pstext, gmtset,
- shp2text
- OPENEV
- I think that's the end of it for
now: stick tyo 32 bits!
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Linux kernel
- The Linux kernel sets the rules
- Obviously
you want to run 4SM.2.06 under a recent Linux version: mine is uptodate.
- Running an old
executable
- that had been compiled on
my 10 years old Toshiba with a 10 years old outdated
RedHat install
- on my present
setup
- showed that
- it started OK,
- then complained that it
could not find some library, and aborted.
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install Ubuntu over Windows
- Three months ago, I tried to
install Ubuntu over my MS-Vista 32 bits: that failed to install. I need
to try harder.
- Ubuntu is Ubuntu: I can't
see why operating Ubuntu over Windows should prevent any of 4SM's
executables to run properly.
- That's
worth checking, though
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- Mine
is 17" 1400 * 900: best is that you have similar resolution
- a standard Toshiba
Satellite L300 is 15.4" 1280 * 800
- now I have to worry that
other poeple might not have that much real estate on their screen!
- I tend to use it liberally
- shrinking my 4SM displays
so that they fit a smaller screen resolution might take a lot of time.
- You can reduce the font size of your GNOME terminal:
- mine is Monospace size 10
- to configure your GNOME Terminal, choose "Edit ▸ Current Profile"
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some
of my favorite /etc/bash.bashrc (I don't bother with .bashrc in my home
directory)
PATH="$PATH:~/software/FWTools-1.1.0/bin_safe"
export PATH MANPATH
alias which="type -path"
alias bashrc=" sudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc"
alias aliasetc="gedit /etc/bash.bashrc &"
alias sourcetc="source /etc/bash.bashrc "
alias gc="gnome-commander &"
alias te="gedit "
alias mv="mv -i "
alias cp="cp -i "
alias rm=" rm -i "
alias rmforce="rm -f "
alias getridof="rm -f -r "
alias cpr="bzip2 "
alias ucp="bunzip2 "
alias dir="ls -l -k --color "
alias dirw="ls -l -k --color; pwd "
alias dira="ls -l -a -k --color "
alias dirs="ls -a -k --color "
alias cmall="chmod a-x *; chmod a+x *sh*; chmod a+x 4SM*; chmod a+x .*;
chmod a+rw *; dira"
alias df="df -m "
alias showdu="du -k | sort -nr > du.txt; te du.txt
&"
alias ym="cd /home/ymorel; dira ; df; pwd "
alias home="cd /home/ymorel; dira ; df; pwd "
alias openev="openev -h &"
alias freeview="wine /home/ymorel/.wine/drive_c/Program\
Files/Freeview_V100/exe/FreeView.exe &"
alias gimp="gimp &"
alias leg="/cp -r ~ymorel/leg ."
alias legsave="/cp -r leg ~ymorel/."
alias 4smgmt="cp ~ymorel/4SM/4smGMT/4sm.calls.zip ." |
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WINDOWS USERS
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Either install
Linux in dual boot on your machine, and use Wine
or CrossOver or
... under Linux to run your WinXP
PCI license. I use Wine to run PCI's FreeView.
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Or
install
a Linux-like environment
CygWin or
CyGnome under Windows to execute 4SM under bash.
- I have used a simple install
of CygWin under WinXP to compile and execute 4SM successfully.
- I should better like to use a
real install of CyGnome.
This 1440*900 screen display shows
- the arcachon tutorial command line
script,
- the OPENEV display of the
arcachon.pix image created through 4SM's_MakePIX,
- and some of my XTERM terminal
where arcachon.pix image is being processed.
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This demonstrates that
you can use your MS-Windows PCI license
while working under Linux!
It could as well be your ERDAS, ERMAPPER, ENVI, IDRISSI, ILLWIS, TIN,
or ...
license for MS-Windows,
provided it can import or view a PCIDSK
formated image.
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