Environmental Information Management Conference 2008

Posted February 6th, 2008 by ngalbraith
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September 10, 2008
September 11, 2008
Where: 
USA: Albuquerque, NM
Event URL: 
http://conference.ecoinformatics.org/index.php/eim/eim2008
Contact Name: 
Corinna Gries, Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER
Contact Email: 
corinna@asu.edu
Managing Sensor Data in Near Real Time: present and discuss advances in environmental information management, analysis, and modeling.

Abstract deadline: April 15, 2008

EIM 2008 invites original, short papers (3-6 pages) on environmental information management that will be presented as 15 minute oral presentations or as a poster. Submissions focusing on the conference theme 'Managing Sensor Data in Near Real Time' are encouraged, and additional topics for submissions include (but are not limited to):
•Sensor networking and deployment
•Data acquisition, field-computing devices
•Quality control processing
•Data archival for long-term persistence
•Metadata generation, storage, and management
•Metadata-driven data analysis services
•Data and metadata semantics, controlled vocabularies, and ontologies
•Analysis and modeling frameworks
•Data and metadata versioning and lineage
•Visualization tools
•Geospatial tools, applications, and standards
•Sociology of collaboration and data sharing