International workshop Sensing a Changing World: the role of sensor web networks for environmental monitoring

19 Nov 2008 - 21 Nov 2008

Organisation: Wageningen UR, Centre for Geo-Information

Location: GAIA gebouw, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, Wageningen

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.

Full details are available at: http://www.grs.wur.nl/UK/Workshops/scw

This workshop has the objective to elucidate common concepts in sensor network applications on aspects like data communication, processing, standardization, knowledge discovery, representation, and visualization. The workshop results in an overview of the state-of the art developments and identification of future research challenges to improve the application of sensor webs in the environmental sciences domains. The workshop brings together researchers, technology developers and users of different involved disciplines and provides a forum for fruitful discussions. If you would like to participate in the workshop we invite you to submit an abstract describing you research before September 1, 2008.

For more information please contact: Arend Ligtenberg (Arend.Ligtenberg@wur.nl) or Lammert Kooistra (Lammert.Kooistra@wur.nl)