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SUMMARY:Geosensor Networks: State of the Art - Silvia Nittel (University o
 f Maine)
DTSTART:20081002T150000Z
DTEND:20081002T160000Z
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:Advances in microsensor technology as well as the development 
 of miniaturized computing platforms\nenable us to scatter numerous untethe
 red sensing devices in hard to reach terrains\, and continuously\ncollect 
 geospatial information in never before seen spatial and temporal scales. S
 ensor networks\ndeployed in geographic space to detect\, monitor and track
  environmental phenomena are called \ngeosensor networks. Geosensor networ
 k technologies are revolutionizing the way that geospatial \ninformation i
 s collected\, analyzed and integrated with existing large-scale sensor pla
 tforms and \nhistorical data\, with the geospatial content of the informat
 ion being of fundamental importance. \nAnalysis and event detection in a g
 eosensor network is performed in real-time within the network.\n\nIn this 
 talk\, I will present some of our current research work in the Geosensor N
 etworks\nLab at the University of Maine with regard to monitoring and trac
 king continuous phenomena\nusing geosensor networks as well as in-network 
 spatial window query estimation. Another one of our\napplication areas is 
 intelligent transportation and ad-hoc decision making in dynamic mobile\ng
 eosensor networks as well as ocean drifter networks for red tide detection
 . \n\nBio: Dr. Silvia Nittel’s is an Associate Professor in the Departme
 nt of Spatial Information Science\n& Engineering and a faculty member with
  the National Center of Geographic Information & Analysis\nat the Universi
 ty of Maine. She received her Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Zurich 
 in \ndatabase management systems\, and joined the UCLA Computer Science De
 partment as postdoctoral \nresearcher in 1995. At UCLA\, she worked on hig
 h-performance integration platforms for scientific \ndata mining applicati
 on for climate change. From 1998 to 2001\, she was the Co-Director \nof th
 e UCLA Data Mining Lab. In Fall 2001\, she started as Assistant Professor 
 at the University \nof Maine. \n\nHer current research interests are in ex
 tending database technology to support stationary and \nmobile sensor netw
 orks\, especially geosensor networks. In detail\, her research focus is on
  in-network \ndata aggregation for quantitative and qualitative spatial qu
 eries in geosensor networks\, as\nwell as real-time querying of continuous
  sensor data streams stemming from various sized sensor \ndevices creating
  sensor data of different spatio-temporal scale. She is the co-founder of 
 the \nconference series "Geosensor Networks"\, and author of two books on 
 Geosensor Networks.\nShe is a recipient of a National Science Foundation E
 arly CAREER award\, and her research \nhas been funded with grants from NS
 F\, NGA and NASA.  \n\n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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