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KidSat 

Meeting Summary
2/17/95

SW
Jesse Keller
- Proposal for discussion at next leader mtg: create interactive online manuals for high school student on how to run our MCG. 
- Ready to begin adding personnel to team; a help wanted page is linked to the KidSat WWW home page (html://deimos.ucsd.edu/calspace).
- Current limitation: lack of computers to sit at. There are tasks which can be carried out now, however. 

MCG
Michael Baine
- 2 Alpha Stations will be delivered in aproximately 2 weeks. 
- Will begin rapid prototyping with ISDN on Power Macs. Purchase or acquisition required: interface adapters @ ca. $100. Goal: ability to transmit both data and voice to schools over same line. Projected capacity: 64 kb voice.
- Now forming Tiger Team for school mission software development. 
- Contact with IDL, a vendor for scientific visualization software. A representative will visit us, find out whether any of their software can be adapted for our use. 

Resources 
Dan Cunningham
- Creating design specs for MCG facility. Before any more work is done, these must be completed. Work stopped on ceilings, lights, doors, etc. until design process complete. About a dozen spec charts need to be done. Help needed! Contact Dan for spec sheet templates.
- Approval of facilities: signing required by ALL team leaders.
- Current Status: ceiling lights pulled. Walls painted. Next step: ceilings, as soon as design approved.
- MCG photos were taken earlier this week during the painting phase.


Image Processing
Jacob Yates / SDSU - Geology Dept.
Jacob Yates/SDSU discussed various aspects of image processing, and showed several large images taken from space to illustrate the possibilities of image processing techniques.
  - Uses: can perform convolutions, overlays to create stereo photos. Used to create flyby simulations in 3D.
  - Observations: water turbulence, pollution, geographic feature sizes, etc. etc.
  - Users: Kids.
  - Spinoffs: stereoscopic viewers, flyby videos, software, etc.
  - Image processing software available:
    - Dimple, Mac. ca. $1000.
    - ER-Mapper (Unix and DOS). $0 for universities.
    - IMAGE by N.I.H. Public domain
    - Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (PC & Mac) ca. $100


D. Schilling / February 22, 1995
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