Open Tsunami Alert System

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

 

Short project description

We're in the initial stages of building an Open Tsunami Alerting
System (OTAS) based on the suggestion in Bob Cringely's 2004/12/30
column[1]. Although work has just started, we've established a few
basic principles: OTAS will be very lightweight; will use openly
available geophysical or seismic data sources; will be highly
distributed and decentralized; and will be built to run on very
low-powered commodity hardware.

We currently foresee using Python and Java, but we aren't religious
about it.

Discussion and on-going notes can be found at the OTAS blog,
http://otasblog.blogspot.com.

Footnotes:
[1] http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20041230.html


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