Presentations & proceedings

On this page you can find the proceedings and the presentations which have been prepared for the Workshop Sensing a Changing World 2008.
In addition, you can find a summary of the questionnaire which was presented during the workshop and also some photographs will be added.

Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Time

Title

Speaker

8:30 – 9:00

Registration & Coffee

 

9:00 – 9:15

Opening and welcome by the organizers

Arend Ligtenberg and Lammert Kooistra
Wageningen Univ. (NL)

9:15 – 9:50

Keynote presentation: Sensor Webs: A Geostrategic Technology for Integrated Earth Sensing

Philippe Teillet
Univ. Lethbridge (CA)


Session Sensor network design and technology

 

9:50 – 10:10

SensorSA data acquisition system

Denis Havlik
Austrian Res. Centre (AT)

10:10 – 10:30

Algorithms for energy efficient data extraction from wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring applications

Supriyo Chatterjea
Univ. of Twente (NL)

10:30 – 10:50

Coffee break

Offered

10:50 – 11:10

Towards remote sensing of vegetation processes

Alexandr Ač
ISBE (CZ)

11:10 – 11:30

Fieldservers as real-time monitoring tools for ubiquitous sensor networks

Aadit Shrestha
Asian Inst. Of Techn. (THL)

11:30 – 11:50

The exploration of sensor web technology for highly dynamic geo-processes observing hydrological events

Arjan Breugem
Wageningen Univ. (NL)

11:50 – 12:10

A practical implementation of a sensor network for geotechnical monitoring

Erik Peters
Alert Solutions (NL)

12:10 – 13:15

Lunch Break

Offered


Session Data integration and information extraction

 

13:15 – 13:50

Keynote presentation: Making it explicit: The movement representation in Wireless Sensor Networks

Monica Wachowicz
Techn. Univ. of Madrid (ES)

13:50 – 14:10

Inference grids for environmental mapping and mission planning of autonomous mobile environmental robots

Alberto Elfes
NASA JPL (USA)

14:10 – 14:30

A Location Sensing Healthy-Living Adviser Technology Development and Simulation

Yuzhong Lin
Eindhoven Univ. of Techn. (NL)

14:30 – 14:50

Networked architecture for robotic environmental ocean science sensors

Greg Podnar
Carnegie Mellon Univ. (USA)

14:50 – 15:10

Coffee break

Offered

15:10 – 15:30

Geo Mindstorms: Investigating a sensor information framework for disaster management processes

Steven Fruijtier
Geodan (NL)

15:30 – 15:50

Developing a model to determine the impacts of climate change on the geographical distribution of tourists

Anto Aasa
Univ. of Tartu (EST)

15:50 – 16:10

Enhancing the landscape experience by Location Based Services

Ron van Lammeren
Wageningen Univ. (NL)

16:10 – 16:30

The use of GPS for the analyses of movements of visitors flows in nature areas

Arend Ligtenberg
Wageningen Univ. (NL)

16:30 – 16:50

Sensing Human Activity: GPS tracking

Stefan van der Spek
Delft Univ. of Techn. (NL)

16:50 – 18:30

Ice breaker event (including demonstrations)

Offered

 

 

 

19:30

Workshop Dinner

Offered


Thursday, 20 November 2008

Time

Title

Speaker

8:30 – 9:00

Registration & Coffee

 

9:00 – 9:05

Opening

Arend Ligtenberg and Lammert Kooistra
Wageningen Univ. (NL)

9:05 – 9:40

Keynote presentation: Geosensor Networks: New Challenges in Environmental Monitoring using Wireless Sensor Networks

Sylvia Nittel
University of Maine (USA)


Session Real-time processing and visualization

 

9:40 – 10:00

OSIRIS: combining pollution measurements with GPS position data for air quality monitoring in urban environments making use of smart systems and SWE technologies

Rubén Pérez
GMV Aerosp. & Defence (ES)

10:00 – 10:20

An integrated sensor web design, acquisition, and evaluation framework for intelligent, adaptive environmental monitoring

Phil Graniero
Univ. of Windsor (CA)

10:20 – 10:40

Coffee break

Offered

10:40 – 11:00

Sharing sensor data with SensorSA and cascading Sensor Observation Service

Thomas Bleier
Austrian Res. Centre (AT)

11:00 – 11:20

The development of a dynamic web mapping service for vegetation productivity using remote sensing and in situ sensors in a sensorweb based approach

Lammert Kooistra
Wageningen Univ. (NL)

11:20 – 11:40

Combining sensor and forecast information to aid decision making: real time monitoring of hydrological peat fire risk in Kalimatan

Jaap Schellekens
Deltares (NL)

11:40 – 12:00

Distributed decision making in a sensor enabled environment

Mohammad Sazegarnejad
Clark Atlanta Univ. (USA)

12:00 – 12:10

Group photo

 

12:10 – 13:20

Lunch Break

Offered


Session Geo-sensor networks: implementation and experiences

 

13:20 – 13:40

Agriculture benefit from the LOFAR infrastructure

Kees Lokhorst
ASG-WUR (NL)

13:40 – 14:00

Open access to sensors

Jan Jellema
TNO (NL)

14:00 – 14:20

MOBESENS: monitoring water quality at large and in the long term

Philippe Dallemagne
CSEM (CH)

14:20 – 14:40

SoilWeather: wireless in-situ network for agriculture and water monitoring at river basin scale in southern Finland

Sirpa Thessler
Agrifood Res. Finland (FI)

14:40 – 15:00

Coffee break

Offered


Session Discovery and accessibility of sensor data: future challenges

 

15:00 – 15:20

Geo sensor networks: the future for spatial data infrastructures?

Arnold Bregt
Wageningen Univ. (NL)

15:20 – 15:40

Towards open navigation, download and analysis services for large multi-dimensional sensor repositories

Peter Baumann
Jacobs Univ. Bremen (DE)

15:40 – 16:00

Metadata behind the interoperability of wireless sensor networks

Daniela Ballari
Techn. Univ. of Madrid (ES)

16:00 – 16:20

Discovery mechanisms for the sensor web

Simon Jirka
Westfal. Wilhelms-Univ. (DE)

16:20 – 17:00

Discussion and concluding remarks

 

 

 

 

17:00 – 18:30

Farewell drinks

Offered

 

  
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