GeoDec: Enabling Geospatial Decision Making |
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DESCRIPTION/ABSTRACT: The vision of GeoDec is to enable an information-rich and realistic 3-dimensional visualization and/or simulation of a geographical location (e.g., a city), rapidly and accurately. The idea is not just to allow navigation through a 3-D model, but to be able to ask queries and get information about the area seamlessly and effortlessly. The main challenge is: How to quickly and cheaply integrate, visualize, and simulate all aspects of a geographic region. The ability to create high-fidelity information-rich models of cities is critical for a wide variety of decision makers. For example, in the United States , GeoDec can be used by city managers, city planners, emergency response planners and first responders. Shahabi will first give his motivation for GeoDec and explain his vision. Next, he will briefly discuss current activities in the realization of GeoDec, concluding with a demonstration of the current prototype. SPEAKER BIO: Cyrus Shahabi is an associate professor and the director of the Information Laboratory (InfoLAB) in the computer science department and a research area director at the NSF's Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California . He is also the CTO of Geosemble Technologies. He received his M.S. and doctorate degrees in computer science from the University of Southern California in May 1993 and August 1996, respectively. He has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and has published two books and more than 100 articles, book chapters and conference papers in the areas of databases and multimedia. Shahabi's current research interests include peer-to-peer systems, streaming architectures, geospatial data integration and multidimensional data analysis. He is currently an associate editor of the (TPDS) and is on the editorial board of magazine. He is also the program committee chair of ICDE NetDB 2005 and ACM GIS. MORE INFORMATION: Faculty sponsor is Ramesh Jain. For more information, contact Quent Cassen, (949) 824-1741, or cassen@uci.edu. RELATED LINKS: , |
