ICVGIP 2012

The Eighth Indian Conference on
Vision, Graphics and Image Processing

16th to 19th December, 2012

ERC 2012 Invited Talk


  • Title: Monitoring At Scale: Recent Advances in Data Mining for Remote Sensing

    Abstract:

    Recent advances in remote sensing instrumentation, and commercialization of remote sensing technology has lead to the unprecedented growth in the acquisition and archival of high resolution (spatial, spectral, and temporal) imagery. These images need to be analyzed to extract critical information (e.g., land-use/land-cover) that allows better management of the environment. Though the improvements in sensor technology and data collection methods may lead to improved geoinformation generation, it also places several constraints on data mining techniques. In this talk I will present an overview of recent advances in data mining for analyzing large-scale (regional and global) remote sensing imagery, specifically in the context of monitoring both natural resources and man-made complex facilities.

    Speakers
    Ranga Raju Vatsavai Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

    Dr. Ranga Raju Vatsavai has been conducting research in the area of spatiotemporal databases and data mining for the past 20 years. Before joining ORNL in 2006, he worked at IBM-Research (2004-06; IIT-Delhi campus), U of Minnesota (1999-2004; Twin-cities, MN), AT&T Labs (1998; Middletown, NJ), Center for Development of Advanced Computing (1995-98; C-DAC, Pune, India), and National Forest Data Management Center (1990-95; FRI Campus, Dehradun, India). He has published over fifty peer-reviewed articles and served on program committees of several international conferences including SDM, KDD, and ACMGIS, and co-chaired several workshops including PDAC (with SC), SensorKDD (with KDD), KDCloud and SSTDM (with ICDM), BigSpatial and HPDGIS (with ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS). He was also involved in developing several highly successful software systems (UMN-MapServer – a world leading open source WebGIS, *Miner – a spatiotemporal data mining workbench, EASI/PACE Parallel Fly!, parallel SAR, and first parallel softcopy photogrammetry system for IRS-1C/1D satellites). His research interests are in the large scale spatial and spatiotemporal databases and data mining, remote sensing and image understanding, computational geoinformatics, HPC and cloud computing.


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