High level overview of next steps

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Technical improvements

Note: I only included ~ past month's work here, there's still a lot of other GitHub issues contributing to scoping!

bolded most important

👉 most immediate!

• [ ] ⏸️ update database against comparables https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/11
  • [ ] ⏸️ latest TNRIS DEMs https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/39
  • [ ] ⏸️ NOAA coastal collections https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/82
  • [ ] ⏸️ seamless backfill https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/68
• [ ] (optional/metadata) update PostgreSQL DB with LPC resolution
  • [ ] case study is Balmorhea, for which no ~"Lidar point-to-point spec" was provided https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/45
• [ ] 👉 finish implementing best-in-time-and-space algo in PostgreSQL https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/41
• [ ] 👉 revise selection table based on TNRIS feedback & @andycarter-pe suggestion to pull acquisitiondate using TNRIS API https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/44
• [ ] update computatonal gridding against TNRIS preference for 1m basemap
  • [ ] aligned with quarter quads
  • [ ] 256x256 pixels each
  • [ ] 0 pixel buffer - provide warning about order-of-operations when working with non-overlapping tiles https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/71
• [ ] 👉 re-issue tiles at 1m basemap (ie zoom level 0)
  • [ ] as cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs
  • [ ] as XYZ tiles https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/72
• [ ] establish DB relationships to prepare for web-selection / on-the-fly aggregation https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/59
  • [ ] de facto watersheds GIS dataset https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/61
  • [ ] de facto Texas border GIS dataset https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/69
• [ ] prepare front-end web tile service, two options ready:
  • [ ] @wmobley's https://github.com/wmobley/texas_damageplain
  • [ ] @dhardestylewis's https://seamless-elevation.herokuapp.com/
• [ ] postgis Docker image hasn't been building recently, needs minor patch https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/31
  • [ ] provide static copy of Singularity file in the interim
• [ ] Determine how to do multiple concurrent connections to Stampede2 PostgreSQL physical DB - them's some interlocking lock.files https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/66
• [ ] Architect continuity-of-service in case main systems fail

Preparing and responding to QAQC

• [ ] 👉 Incorporate TNRIS feedback https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/73
• [ ] 👉 Provide TNRIS back with corrected metadata availability file https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/28

Documentation

• [ ] Continue free-form master description of work & vision https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/75
• [ ] Review/incorporate/cite past work https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/74
• [ ] Revise README.md with Table of Contents & fold-out sectioning https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/63
• [ ] Continue gathering cost/cost-savings info https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/24
• [ ] Store DB & upstream lidar tiles metadata files on GitHub https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/76 https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/65
• [ ] Depict available subgrids, as well as subgridding scheme https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/57
• [ ] Provide back timing info to compute a single subgrid https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/70
• [ ] Continue moving towards more descriptive naming https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/62

Marketing, licensing, & provenance

• [ ] Continue marketing / preparing for marketing of alpha release web service https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/53
• [ ] Revise licensing policy in light of Office Tech Commercialization feedback https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/67
• [ ] Finish unforking repo, clarifying extent of @Khushbooagarwalhub's contributions to describing how to run PostgreSQL on Stampede2 https://github.com/dhardestylewis/terrain_aggregator/issues/33

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@dhardestylewis update against latest GitHub issues, as well as less recent ones!

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Here is the highest level context for this work, from the TDEM Conference, May 2022: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Exz4S31sIxykHHGL_pmuu74rLLD-FDJf/edit?disco=AAAAejplNHM