Monday, 5 December 2011 • 9:00 – 18:00 • Room: 310 A/B
IEEE GEOSS Forum XLIV
Use of Sensor Networks and Communications Technologies in Earth Observations and Rural Communities
This one-day workshop will bring together the Earth Observation community with IEEE Communications experts, and include discussions on sensor networks, modeling, signal processing, and use of communications technologies in rural areas. The program will consist of a series of presentations, breakout sessions and discussions. A report will be written with recommendations for GEOSS.
Organizers:
Albin J. Gasiewski, Francoise Pearlman, Kobus Roux, Mehmet Ulema, Terence van Zyl, Ingo Simonis, Kim Williams, Doug Zuckerman, Fisseha Mekuria
9:00 – 9:20: Welcome
Sensor Web in the Context of GEOSS
Applications, Concepts, Architectures: What is the Sensor Web, how has it developed over the last 10 years, what can be expected next, what are the open work items.
Ingo Simonis
9:20 – 9:40: WSN Technologies
The latest status and discussion regarding protocols, encodings, communication patterns, energy saving mechanisms, node access from the internet
M. Can Vuran
9:40 – 10:00: The RESTful Approach
Modern architectures to improve Sensor Web applications, examples from the hydrologic community and advanced methods of sensor description to allow interoperable network applications
Andrew Terhorst
10:00 – 10:20: Sensor Web/WSN and Next Generation Wireless Communications Networks
Spectrum and Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks, Intelligent and Collaborative Radio Networks: Rural Communications Context
Fisseha Mekuria
10:20 – 10:40: Cooperative Security of Distributed Sensor Networks
Challenges and Solutions
Mohamed Hamdi
11:00 – 11:20: Sensor Integration and Communication Issues in Rural Areas
How to connect sensors and devices in rural areas, how to save costs, what type of protocols can be used, how to bridge from Internet to rural nodes
Adnan Abu-Mahfouz
11:20 – 11:40: Trusted Mobile Education (Learning) Software for Video Conferencing
Kamesh Namuduri
11:40 – 12:00: Usage of WSN and WSN Applications to Support EO/GEOSS
Use of WSN, concept studies and applicability in real world scenarios, deployment of WSNs
Mehmet Ulema
12:20 – 12:40: Trusted Mobile Education for Video Conferencing
Trusted Mobile Education (Learning) Virtual Classroom (Closed Group) is an online interacting tool that can be used in mobile handsets or tiny devices. This tool enables organizations, academicians, learners, corporate professionals, defense officers and customers to connect live from anywhere, offering real-time collaboration and secure communication.
Natarajan Vijayarangan
14:00 – 14:20: Workflows and Sensor Web: A Research Perspective
Terence van Zyl
14:20 – 14:40: Sensor Net
Boris Antic
14:40 – 15:30: Participants Presentations
16:00 – 17:00: Breakout Sessions
17:00 – 17:30: Reports from Breakout Sessions
17:30 – 18:00: Closing
For more information, visit
http://www.ieee-earth.org/event/geoss-workshop-xliv-sensor-netcommunications