Using masking in Google Earth Engine - javascript

I have a thesis that I'm writing about Ice coverage change on rivers, and I decided to use Google Earth Engine for this.
I have an algorithm already that can check if the pixel is icy or not. But the problem is I have to mask this to only calculate it on rivers and not anywhere else.
I have a limited knowledge of JavaScript and looked up the API to find a solution for masking. I tried to incorporate the example into my code but it gives me an error "updatemask" is not defined in this scope.
So how do I define this mask? Because at the moment I just create a variable that contains area of a river and assign it to a mask.
var datamask = ShapeFile; // Uploaded.
var mask = datamask.eq(1); // As I understand this is where you tell the mask which part to use.
var dif = updatemask(datamask);

First, the function is named updateMask. Second, it is an instance method for an ee.Image object, which returns another ee.Image object. So you need to set the mask for a particular image. Assuming you may have an image which represents ice, you might do something like
// I am assuming you are loading this via ee.FeatureCollection etc
var datamask = ShapeFile;
var mask = datamask.eq(1);
var ice = ee.Image(<some ice asset>);
var masked_ice = ice.updateMask(mask);

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Get the position of 3d objects in Facebook AR and changing them via script

I have a 3d object which i want to "move" from A to B via script. I am not too sure how to go about it; I don't understand the Facebook documents. Just a short example as a start would be great.
I assume something along the lines:
var object = Scene.root.find("object");
var lastPosX = object.transform.positionX.lastValue;
object.transform.positionX = //NOT SURE HOW TO PUT THE NEW POSITION
What you need to do is use the AnimationModule - here is a simple example of how to do that:
const Animation = require('Animation');
var obj = Scene.root.find("object");
//set up the length of the animations, 1000 = 1 second
var driver = Animation.timeDriver({durationMilliseconds: 1000});
//define the starting and ending values (start at 0, go to 100)
var sampler = Animation.samplers.linear(0, 100);
//create an animation signal to control the object x position
obj.transform.x = Animation.animate(driver, sampler);
//start the animation
driver.start();
Animation in ARS, like many other things, is based around the concept of "Reactive Programming" and working with "Signals" which are values that change over time. It is essential to get a good grasp of what a signal is and how it works to write useful code in ARS. Read through this for an introductory overview: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ar-studio/scripting/basics
The above is a very basic example, but there is much more interesting, advanced, and complex effects that you can achieve using the AnimationModule, take a look at the documentation here for more information: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ar-studio/reference/classes/animationmodule/
Hope this helps!

cesium - moving billboards

I am testing Cesiumjs to see if it can reflect a near-real-time expreience - for example: position of airplanes.
For that, I need to draw billboards and make them move - which I know is possible with cesium, just not sure how.
The code looks like this:
var billboards = scene.primitives.add(new Cesium.BillboardCollection());
var billboard = {
image : '/path/to/logo.png',
position : Cesium.Cartesian3.fromDegrees(-75.59777, 40.03883)
};
billboards.add(billboard);
My question is how do I change the position of the billboard. I couldn't find ant documentation that would explain.
I thought doing:
billboard.position = ... //new position
but how will cesium know that I've changed the position attribute unless it somehow turns that reference into a observable object.
So how do I update the location?
Thanks.
Cesium does indeed listen for changes to billboard.position
(source code here), so it is correct behavior for apps to simply write a new position.
Note that you must write the whole position at once, meaning you may not write to billboard.position.x. Instead, keep a "scratch" Cartesian3 around (don't create a new one every animation frame at 60fps), write to the x,y,z properties of your scratch variable, and then assign your scratch variable to billboard.position. You can see in the source that the assigned value will be cloned into another pre-existing Cartesian3, so you may immediately reuse the scratch variable.
Here's an example:
// Just once at app startup. Don't call "new" at 60fps.
var scratchCartesian3 = new Cesium.Cartesian3();
var ellipsoid = viewer.scene.mapProjection.ellipsoid;
function onTick() {
// This is safe to call at 60fps.
billboard.position = Cesium.Cartesian3.fromDegrees(
lon, lat, alt, ellipsoid, scratchCartesian3);
}
Also note that your question and the above answer are focused on the "Graphics Primitive" layer of the Cesium API. Cesium has one higher layer, called the "Entity" API, that you can use if you want Cesium to handle the concept of user-selectable objects with pop-up descriptions etc. Here's a Sandcastle demo showing how to add a billboard as a property of an entity, instead of as a primitive. This allows you to add other properties to the same entity, for example a name, description, label, 3D model, etc, and have them all be controlled from the same position property, and have Cesium take care of popup descriptions. The position property is more complex for entities than for primitives, for example it can be constant or sampled. This allows entities to change position over time when the timeline is shown.

simplifying the contents of an input using the javascript math system

This obviuosly works perfectly:<script>alert(5*8-4)</script>
but i need to solve whatever someone puts inside an input box.
Heres what I thought of doing: I would get the value of the input, into a variable. then I would use
document.write("<script>alert("+theinputvalue+")<script>");
or do this:
var string="<script>alert("+theinputvalue+")<script>";document.write(string);
but nothing works.
Is it even possible to do this? if not, tell my what simple other system I could use.
eventually, I will use it to graph lines like this:
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas"),
ctx = canvas.getContext("2d")
for(var x=-100; x<100; x=x+.2){
y = .1*(x*x)
ctx.fillRect(x+50, -1*y+50, 2, 2);
}
http://jsfiddle.net/KGgq4/
eval('5*8-4')
will result in 36
I'm not aware of any library that is doing that (this doesn't mean that there are no such it simply means I never actually needed that) but what you should end up doing is to build an automata that will parse input string and transform it to a proper graph with proper transformations. This is not very easy topic and if you want to go this route you should start reading on arithmetic expressions parsing algorithms (sorry I do not have any solution in place).
Or you can cheat and define types of equations that will be selected by user. Once user selects type of equation you should be able show user inputs where user will be able to select coefficients. You can read those coefficients into different variables and apply transformations in your draw procedure (For example if user will select type sin(x) you know that general equation has following formula: y = k*sin(a*x + b) + c. So once it is selected you can allow user to enter k, a, b, c and based on that input calculate appropriate locations of points for your graph.)
Well, third solution could involve "eval ", but usually you should avoid eval at any cost (B/c it is straight forward JavaScript injection which may be an OK for this case but may get you in trouble later in your life. ).
You can use math.js, which comes with an advanced expression parser. It supports definition of variables and functions.
// create an instance of math.js
var math = mathjs();
// evaluate an expression
math.eval('5*8-4'); // 36
// user defined function (returns a native JavaScript function)
var f = math.eval('f(x) = 2*x^2 + 6');
// use the function (for graphing or something)
f(2); // 14

Finding coordinates in the ZXing library and outputting on canvas

I'm using this JS code scanner based on the ZXing library and I would like to find the coordinates of the QR code found and then put a border around the found QR code on the <canvas> element. I cannot find the vars containing the coordinates of the QR code. I cannot find any good information on the net either, so I would appreciate any help.
Note: It would be helpful if you could tell me what vars have the coordinates saved; I'll be much closer to the answer then.
Note: This is a shot in the dark as I can't test it.
In detector.js there is a detect method that returns the object "info". This object has the properties:
var topLeft = info.TopLeft;
var topRight = info.TopRight;
var bottomLeft = info.BottomLeft;
You can see these variables in action in the processFinderPatternInfo method.
If you're using jQuery, you can find the position of any element using $(element).position
It should be easy enough to find the ID or Class the QR code belongs to and find the position of it.
http://api.jquery.com/position/

LatLong falls within a given polygon in D3 + Leaflet

I am trying to learn how to use the Javascript library leaflet along with d3 to create various map visualisations.
I have been following this tutorial which creates a choropleth map of the United States with some interactivity. This provides some of what I need, but the main functionality I want is to have a list of lat/long coordinates classified according to which region they belong to.
This would mean, in the tutorial map for example, if I had a lat long value (55, -3) which fell within the state of Arizona's polygon, the program could classify this point as belonging to Arizona.
Is there a function in the leaflet (or d3) library which will allow me to enter a lat long coordinate as a parameter and return the name of the feature it belongs to? The tutorial above allows you to attach a function to every feature via the onEveryFeature property and can fire mouseover events when each feature is hovered over. Surely there is a way to extend this functionality to numerically entered data instead of mouse points?
Leaflet would need some tweaking if you wish to do this. It leaves the handling of mouseclicks to the browser and therefore does not need logic for determining if a point lies inside a polygon.
I am not very knowledgeable about d3 but it's not glaringly obvious to me how it'd do this out of the box. Looking at the polygon code, I do find a clipping algorithm and intersection of infinite lines.
If you add a third library, however, this should be rather simple.
The OpenLayers Geometry library can determine if a point lies inside a polygon.
EDIT: I got this to work, see also http://jsfiddle.net/VaY3E/4/
var parser = new OpenLayers.Format.GeoJSON();
var vectors = parser.read(statesData);
var lat = 36;
var lon = -96;
var point = new OpenLayers.Geometry.Point(lon, lat);
for( var i = 0; i< vectors.length; i++ ){
if(vectors[i].geometry.intersects(point)){
alert(vectors[i].attributes['name']);
}
}
Or you could use https://github.com/maxogden/geojson-js-utils , a bit more specific library. It looks like it knows how to read GeoJSON and it has a method gju.pointInPolygon. I've not tested it though.

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