A workshop at AGILE 2011 conference, 18th April 2011, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Workshop proceedings at CEUR publisher.

Workshop presentations (as pdf)

• Invited speaker: Simonis – The Sensor Web: Standardization efforts to convert the Internet into an active sensing macro instrument
• McCullough – A Typology of Real-Time Parallel Geoprocessing for the Sensor Web Era
• Ganesh – Visualizing uncertainty in environmental workflows and sensor streams
• He – LogicGeoObject – a client-side architectural model for aggregating Geospatial dynamics from Sensor Web
• Llaves – A Theory For Event Processing Of Geosensor Data
• Bauer – Marine Modeling as a Service
• Jirka – Linking Sensor Web Enablement and Web Processing Technology for Health-Environment Studies
• Smolders – GENESIS employing Web Processing Services and Sensor Web Technology for environmental management
• Fairgrieve – Error Aware Near Real-Time Interpolation of Air Quality Observations in GEOSS
• Reznik – Emergency Support System: Actionable Real-time Intelligence with Fusion Capabilities and Cartographic Displays

Workshop schedule (pdf)

Find original pdf version of this call here.

Description: Geoprocessing is the application of functionality representing real-world processes (e.g. hydrological runoff models) or processing of geodata (e.g. generalization, (coordinate) transformation). Providing these models and functionality on the web is a relevant topic in research and industry, as it allows users to generate web-based information to support decisionmaking. The Sensor Web enables discovery and tasking of sensors as well as interoperable access to their gathered data through common interfaces over the Web. Web-based geoprocessing can use data published through the Sensor Web as inputs to realize live decision support. Such integration of the two technologies is an evolving field of research. Related applications are for example environmental monitoring (e.g. air quality, noise, water quality), health monitoring and risk management (e.g. forest fire).

The ISW workshop aims at research on this cross-road of Sensor Web and Geoprocessing. Different workshops have been organized on either of the topics, such as SWE 2010, the GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop series, and the AGILE workshop about Grid Technologies for Geospatial Applications in 2009. However, a workshop that aims at combining the two aspects and where the attached challenges are highlighted, has not been organized yet. In particular, this workshop aims at the following joined aspects:

• (Event-based) processing of sensor data streams
• Uncertainty in Geoprocessing workflows and sensor data streams
• Distributed Geoprocessing workflows
• Sensors, Geoprocessing and Cloud Computing
• Self-describing sensors and processes
• Concepts for integrating sensors and processing
• Linked data approaches for sensors and processes
• Applications for processing sensor data.

Scientific program committee (tentative): Peter Baumann (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany), Lars Bernard (Dresden University, Germany), Rolf de By (ITC, the Netherlands), Dan Cornford (Aston University, UK), Simon Cox (CSIRO, Australia), Laura Diaz (University Castellon, Spain), Carlos Granell (University Castellon, Spain), Simon Jirka (52°North GmbH, Germany), Christian Kiehle (CSC GmbH, Germany), Christian Kray (University Newcastle, UK), Werner Kuhn (ifgi, Germany), Steve Liang (University of Calgary, Canada), Michael Lutz (JRC, Italy), Paolo Mazzetti (CNR, Italy), Deshen Moodley (University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa), Markus Neteler (FEM, Italy), Edzer Pebesma (ifgi, Germany), George Percivall (OGC, USA), Florian Probst (SAP Research), Bernd Resch (Research Studios Austria), Sven Schade (JRC, Italy), Bastian Schaeffer (52°North GmbH, Germany), Kym Watson (Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany), Peisheng Zhao (George Mason University, USA).

Organizing committee: Theodor Foerster (ifgi, Germany), Arne Broering (ITC, the Netherlands), Bastian Baranski (ifgi, Germany), Benjamin Pross (ifgi, Germany), Christoph Stasch (ifgi, Germany), Thomas Everding (ifgi, Germany), Stephan Mäs (TU Dresden, Germany).