Demet Aksoy
Assistant Professor
Thursday, December 8, 2005
1131 Kemper Hall
3 :10-4:00 p.m.
PLASMA: A PLAnetary Scale Monitoring Architecture
While sensor networks continue to attract significant interest in various research communities, high impact applications still have a long list of challenges to be addressed. An individual sensor system can provide important observations within a local area. However, local observations alone are not sufficient for applications that require planetary scale coverage. Monitoring natural disasters, volcanic activity, nuclear disasters, magnetic field changes, pandemic disease spread patterns are some examples to such planetary-scale applications. These applications require a close interaction between different sensor networks with in-situ and remotely sensed observations. In this talk I will present our PLASMA (PLAnetary Scale Monitoring Architecture) project for ACM MULTIMEDIA. I will be focusing on challenges such as approximations in spatio-temporal attributes and multi-attribute visualization that need to be addressed at such scale.