Geospatial Informatics.

Peter Bajcsy, Michal Ondrejcek, Rob Kooper and Luigi Marini

Illinois Geographic Information Systems Association (ILGISA) spring conference and workshop,
Urbana, Illinois April 28-29, 2009

The audience will learn about the process of going from raw geospatial data to information and to knowledge. The presentations will go over open source technologies developed for integration of geospatial data, data-driven modeling using machine learning techniques, visual data explorations, work flow execution and web publishing using Google Map and other services.

1. Peter Bajcsy: Introduction
2. Peter Bajcsy: Introduction to Geospatial Informatics, Sp2learn, GeoLearn
3. Michal Ondrejcek: Data sharing through Web dissemination, Examples: Lincoln Papers Virtual Observatory, Costa Rica 2050
4. Rob Kooper: Scientific Workflows and the Dissemination of Computations and Data, Part 1; Cyberintegrator and Examples: Birthday Weather
5. Luigi Marini: Scientific Workflows and the Dissemination of Computations and Data, Part 2; Digital Synthesis Explorer (DSE) and Examples: 4-H PlantGrowth, Virtual Sensors
6. Peter Bajcsy: Final remarks