Terrain Rendering / GIS Project

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Staffing

• Paul Coddington (no funding from any specific project, so no official time allotment, in practice about 20%).
• Alvin Leung, GRA (funded 100%, originally by Living Schoolbook, now discretionary? or Rome Lab?).
• Chris Walczak, Polish intern.
• Byoengsoeb Ki, GRA doing independent study (unfunded).

Deliverables and Deadlines

• Provide good 2D (Java) and 3D (VRML) terrain rendering for Interactive Journey (Living Schoolbook) and Rome Lab demos by end of Feb.

Problems and Constraints

• Someone needs to take over project management from Paul fairly soon (I can still help a little but need to scale back involvement). Ideally need someone who knows something about Web, CGI, Java, VRML, databases, 3D rendering, Geographical Information Systems, and can contribute a substantial amount of time to the project (may be a bit difficult to find someone!).
• Chris will be leaving mid-Feb, back in July for a while. We will attempt to get a core dump from him before he goes so Ki and Alvin can continue his work.
• Main problem is lack of expertise in GIS and geographical data. Obtaining data and integrating different data sets in different formats is highly non-trivial.
• Alvin needs to graduate soon (end of summer if possible).