From the workshop website:

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 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.

During the workshop key-note speakers provide an overview state-of-the-art developments, impact and challenges for sensor web technology in different application fields: urban, water, environment, transportation, agriculture, tourism etc. In addition to the presentations, there will be ample time to discuss relevant issues and open questions. A selection of the presented papers will be published in a special issue of a selected journal (to be announced)

Workshop topics

Contributions from the fields of environmental sciences, geoinformation sciences, and computer sciences should address, but are not limited to, current topics of:

• Knowledge discovery from sensory data sets
• Scale issues in the processing and application of spatial temporal sensory data.
• Real-time and on-demand representation and visualization of sensor data
• Information extraction from sensor network data
• Integration of sensor webs and dynamical modeling
• Development of location and movement based services
• Standardized access to sensor data and the linkage to spatial data infrastructures
• Application of mobile sensor based tracking applications ( transportation, urban, tourism, cellular census, location based services etc.)
• In situ and earth observation sensor applications (groundwater, air-quality, river management, agriculture, extreme events etc.)

Important Dates

• September 1, 2008: Deadline for submission of abstracts (300-500 words)
• September 21, 2008: Notification of acceptance of abstract

Related Project: OOSTethys

As one of the OOSTethys project partners, MMI contributes to the development, testing and implementation of easy-to-use, open-source, OGC-compliant software. A working prototype of networked, semantically interoperable, real-time data systems is available.

See the links below for more information:

• OOSTethys Project Homepage
• OpenIOOS SOS Map (prototype interface)
• Creating a Standards-Based Interoperable Framework for Ocean Data (demonstration video)