Workshop on Sensor Networks for Earth and Space Science Applications (ESSA 2009)

Held in conjunction with ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)
San Francisco, CA, USA
April 16, 2009

Wireless sensor networks and their applications have grown steadily
during the past decade as a result of the convergence of various
technologies spanning wireless, data processing algorithms, computing
hardware, storage, and sensor capabilities.  The pervasive nature of
static and mobile sensors scattered throughout the environment enables
multi-resolution capture of environmental or ambient information that
serve as the basis of intelligence for knowledge inference and
decision-making.  Information processing for sensor networks enables
new capabilities to operate autonomously and learn, perceive, reason,
and react intelligently to their environments.

Large scale sensor networks are now being used in a number of Earth
and Space Science applications, including large-area terrestrial
systems for geologic monitoring, volcano/plume monitoring, seismic
(earthquake) monitoring, large-scale ocean monitoring for tsunamis,
storm surges, plumes, algae blooms, and weather forecasting systems
comprised of aerial and ground/coastal nodes.  Such Earth and Space
sensor networks are now evolving from "passive observation and
reporting systems" to "active and reactive systems" that dynamically
evolve in response to complex and rapid spatio-temporal events.

This workshop is a forum for scientists and researchers to present new
ideas and papers on sensor networks applications in the areas of Earth
and Space Science.  Papers on all aspects of Earth and Space
Applications can be submitted to this workshop.  We expect this
workshop to have invited papers as well as contributed papers.  Topics
of interest include, but not limited to, are:

- Monitoring of long range and large-scale phenomena
- Geologic and Seismic monitoring
- Chemical plumes and other atmospheric events
- Oceanic events prediction and monitoring
- Sensor networks applications in near space and deep space
- Data fusion, compression, and processing for sensorwebs
- Simulation, emulation, and experiments on sensor networks for Earth
and Space Science
- Databases, data search/mining technologies and knowledge extraction
mechanisms from sensor networks in Earth and Space Science
- Information management, and data visualization and display
techniques for sensor networks
- Signal processing, control, and resource management solutions for
sensor networks
- AI and machine learning for sensor networks
- Intelligent networking and routing protocols for optimal operation
of large-scale sensor networks

Dates:
Submission: February 28, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: March 22, 2009
Final Version Due: April 2, 2009

Webpage: http://viterbi.usc.edu/ESSA2009

General Chair:  Srikanta Kumar, BAE Systems
Program Co-Chairs:  Ashit Talukder, JPL (Ashit.Talukder@jpl.nasa.gov)
and Cauligi Raghavendra, USC (raghu@usc.edu)