[ESIP-all] CFP: International Journal of Geo-Information, Special Issue "Geosensor Networks and the Sensor Web"
Dr. Silvia Nittel
nittel at spatial.maine.edu
Mon Sep 7 15:11:28 EDT 2015
Apologies for cross-posting. I hope this is of interest to many in the
ESIP Federation.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Journal of Geo-Information
Special Issue "Geosensor Networks and the Sensor Web"
Submission deadline: 31 January 2016
Dear Colleagues,
The last two decades have seen unprecedented advances in the development
and miniaturization of a variety of sensors, as well as inexpensive,
small computing platforms, and a plethora of wireless communication
media. These technological developments have lead to the related
research areas of geosensor networks and the sensor web.
Geosensor networks are wireless, ad hoc sensor networks that employ
recent research progress from electrical engineering, computer science,
and spatial information science to create small devices, running
compact, space and time-aware algorithms for live, in-place analytics.
Sensors can range from stationary environmental sensors to drones or
autonomous vehicles collecting imagery data, or even to humans acting as
sensors using smartphones. The sensor web, on the other hand, realizes
the idea of a standardized, interoperable platform for everyone to
easily share, find, and access sensor data that is based on space, time,
and other attributes, similar to easily searching for and sharing
information on the Internet. Today, we see further growth in the
availability of massive numbers of real-time sensor streams,
precipitating a need for real-time analysis. From a practical
perspective, geosensor networks can be simply defined as “networked
geosensors”, or networks of sensor nodes deployed in geographic space
with various communication topologies. Such geosensor networks enable us
to observe, reason about, and react to events in space and time in near
real-time. To truly leverage this ubiquitous sensing infrastructure,
research advances relating to the sensor web are of utmost importance,
enabling easy access, sharing, and interoperability.
We invite original research contributions on all aspects of geosensor
networks, the sensor web, and their applications, and, particularly,
encourage submissions focusing on the following themes for this Special
Issue.
Formal foundations of geosensor networks
Decentralized spatial computing and spatial self-organization
Languages for describing spatial tasks and patterns
Real-time sensor data streams
Integration of real-time sensor streams and historic streams
Data management for Big Sensor Data
Integration of heterogenous sensor streams
Analytics of sensor data streams
Crowdsensing for emergency applications and humans as sensors
Cooperative sensing using drones, and UAVs
Experiences and lessons learned deploying geosensor networks
Geosensor network and sensor web use cases: government, participatory
GIS, health, energy, water, climate change, etc.
Platforms, architectures and open source software for geosensor
Networks and the sensor web
Geosensor networks, ontologies and standards
Benchmarking geosensor networks
Ethical and societal impacts of geosensor networks
Dr. Silvia Nittel
Guest Editor
Submission deadline: 31 January 2016.
For submission details, please see the webpage.
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/geosensor_networks
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Dr. Silvia Nittel
Spatial Informatics
School of Computing and Information Science
National Center of Geographic Information and Analysis
University of Maine
(207) 581 3681
University of Maine
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