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When Sensors meet the World Wide Web...

GeoCENS, a platform enable you to share/use world-wide sensor

Sensor Web is a special type of web-centric information system for collecting, modeling, storing, retrieving, sharing, manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing information of sensors, sensor observations, and associated phenomena. A Sensor Web contains a group of distributed and heterogeneous sensors that interconnected by a communication fabric and sharing information through interoperable inter-faces. User is able to access and, where applicable, control the sensors via World Wide Web (WWW). With the presence of cheaper, miniature, faster, and smart in situ sensors, and the increasing availability of abundant fast computing devices, wireless and mobile network access, and autonomous and intelligent geospatial software agents, Sensor Web becomes clearly a technological trend. This new earth observation information system opens up a new avenue to fast assimilation of data from various sensors (both in-situ and remote) and to accurate analysis and informed decision makings.

Web and Wireless GIS 2013 in Banff, Canada

We are excited to announce that our lab is organizing the next Web and Wireless GIS conference (W2GIS 2013). It will be held in Banff Canada next April. More information will be available soon.

Dr. Liang presented at W2GIS

Dr. Steve Liang presented a research paper titled "Discovering Sensor Services with Social Network Analysis and Expanded SWQRL Querying" at Web and Wireless GIS 2012 in Napoli, Italy.


Dr. Liang and Alec presented Sensor Web Pivot Viewer at Microsoft

Dr. Liang and Alec presented our latest sensor web browser: Sensor Web Pivot Viewer at the Microsoft Research Open Data for Open Science workshop 2012 in Remond, WA, USA.

Sensor Web PivotViewer

Dr. Liang attended the 80th OGC TC at UT Austin

Dr. Steve Liang attended the 80th OGC Technical Committee meeting held at University of Texas Austin from March 19~23 2012. Steve firstly presented a standard-based groundwater monitoring system at the SWE Domain Working Group meeting, and then presented the on-going work of a tiny and intereoperable Sensor Observation Service (SOS) for Internet of Things (Netduino). Presentations files are uploaded soon.

Welcome new member: Kunbae Park

I would like to welcome our newest member: Kunbae Park. Kunbae is a full-time frontend developer and he will help us to further improve our sensor web system's frontend and usability. Kunbae is from Korea, and currently enjoying his "working holidays" here in Canada.

Alec Huang passed his PhD candidacy exam

Congratulations to Alec. He passed his PhD candidacy exam this week. One step closer to PhD. Congratulations!!

Steve and Alec attending GeoVoCamp 2012

Steve and Alec are attending GeoVoCamp 2012 in Santa Barbara. http://vocamp.org/wiki/GeoVoCampSB2012

We are hiring!!


Job Title: Front End Javascript Web Developer (Multiple Openings)
Job Type: Full-time/Part-time
Date: Jan 25, 2012
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