Proceedings and Presentations

WORKSHOP SENSING A CHANGING WORLD
NOVEMBER 19-21, 2008,
CENTRE FOR GEO-INFORMATION
WAGENINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

Current developments in sensor technology  provide increasing opportunities to analyze human behavior and monitor environmental processes in a changing world.
Access to vast amounts of data from mobile (e.g., gps, mobile phones), in situ (e.g., meteorological, groundwater, seismic) and remote sensing sensors provides scientific researchers with complex but very interesting spatial-temporal data sets. However, the challenge will be to develop concepts and applications that can provide timely and on-demand  knowledge to end-users in different domains and at a range of scale-levels.

At this moment various communities show interest in sensor networks from different perspectives. This workshop has the objective to elucidate common concepts on aspects like data communication, processing, standardization, knowledge discovery, representation, and visualization. The program of the workshop includes keynote presentations on the state-of-the art developments and identification of  future research challenges to improve the application of sensor webs in the environmental sciences domains (urban, water, environment, transportation, agriculture, tourism etc.). In addition to the presentations, there will be ample time to discuss relevant issues and open questions. The workshop brings together researchers, technology developers and users of different involved disciplines and provides a forum for fruitful discussions. A selection of the presented papers will be published in a special issue of the open access journal Sensors (http://www.mdpi.org/sensors/).

Participation and registration
The workshop is open to all interested researchers, technology developers and users however the number of participants is limited. The registration fee for the workshop will be 150 Euro which includes coffee, lunches, workshop dinner, excursion, and proceedings with short papers of the workshop presentations.
Please register by using the registration form on the website. Your registration will be made final after you have paid the workshop fee as indicated.

The deadline for registration is 10 November 2008.

Location
Wageningen Campus, Wageningen University and Research Center, The Netherlands
GAIA building (building 101), Droevendaalsesteeg 3, Wageningen
Route description http://www.wageningenuniversiteit.nl/UK/contact/route/

Accomodation
Several hotels are available in Wageningen and its surroundings. Participants to the workshop need to arrange their own accommodation.
A block reservation has been made at Hotel & Conference Center WICC, Lawickse Allee 9, 6701 AN Wageningen http://www.wicc.nl/index.php
Please go to the accommodation page for more information.

Information and questions
For any questions concerning the workshop please contact the organizers: Lammert Kooistra (lammert.kooistra@wur.nl) or Arend Ligtenberg (arend.ligtenberg@wur.nl).

Looking forward to meeting you in Wageningen!