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2010 Reuse Utilization Award Recipients (alphabetically): Todd Berendes, Chockalingam Chidambaram, Sara Graves, Manil Maskey, Sunil Movva, Rahul Ramachandran.

Three NASA-funded tools -- the Algorithm Development and Mining (ADaM) toolkit, the Interactive Visualizer and Image Classifier for Satellites (IVICS), and World Wind -- along with other software were utilized to produce the Globally Leveraged Integrated Data Explorer for Research (GLIDER), a free tool for the visualization, analysis, and mining of satellite imagery. The combination of ADaM's data analysis capabilities, IVICS's ability to allow users to work with data in native satellite view, and World Wind's 3D visualization and image overlays into a single tool makes GLIDER unique and powerful. Approximately 80% of ADaM code, 35% of IVICS code, and 100% of World Wind code was utilized in GLIDER, and this high degree of reuse reduced development effort by at least four full time programmers for two years. The GLIDER tool has also been used in several NASA workshops focusing on satellite imagery interpretation and information extraction.

GLIDER home page: http://miningsolutions.itsc.uah.edu/glider/