Workshop on Innovative Data Mining Techniques in Support of GEOSS
August 31, 2009 - September 2, 2009
Sinaia, Romania
Monday, 31 August 2009
09.00 Registration
Opening Session
Chairperson: Marius-Ioan Piso, President, Romanian Space Agency (ROSA)
09.50 Welcome address
Marius-Ioan Piso, President, Romanian Space Agency (ROSA)
10.00 The Global Earth Observation System of Systems: Ongoing Developments and Priorities (. pdf 9.27 MB)
Robert Koopman, GEOSS
10.40 ROSA contributions to GEOSS (.pdf 4.88 MB)
Marius-Ioan Piso, President, Romanian Space Agency (ROSA)
11.20 Coffee break
11.40 On the Possibility of Highly Automated Image Information Mining: Problems and Possible Solutions (.pdf 2.47 MB)
Toshinori Watanabe, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo
12.20 Capacity, Infrastructure and Spatial Data Supporting Environmental Policy Implementation in Romania (.pdf 4.32 MB)
Iurie Maxim, Ministry of Environment, Romania
13.00 Lunch
Afternoon Session
Chairperson: Tuomas Häme, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
15.00 Potential offered by data mining techniques to improve the forecast of extreme meteorological phenomena over Romania region (.pdf 10.9 MB)
Andrei Diamandi, National Meteorological Administration
15.30 Automatic Change Detection (.pdf 2.02 MB)
Tuomas Häme, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
16.00 Extraction of Ground Deformation and Three-Dimensional Features Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (.pdf 4.79 MB)
Valentin Poncos, Delia Teleaga, Advanced Studies and Research Center
16.30 Coffee break
16.50 - 18.00 Round table
Chairperson: Robert Koopman, GEOSS
Members of the panel:
Marius-Ioan Piso, President, Romanian Space Agency (ROSA)
Toshinori Watanabe, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo
Iurie Maxim, Ministry of Environment, Romania
Florin Serban, Advanced Studies and Research Center
Tuomas Häme, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
19.00 Dinner offered by Romanian Space Agency (ROSA)
Toshinori Watanabe, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo: Introducing "Komuso shakuhachi" (Japanese bamboo flute music)
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Morning Session
Chairperson: Roger King, Mississippi State University
10.00 Beyond pixel and object-based classification: recent advances in geospatial data mining for landscape process recognition Laboratory (.pdf 44.0 MB)
Budhendra L. Bhaduri, DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory
10.30 Web-Service-based Distributed Data Mining in the Context of GEOSS (.pdf 380 KB)
Liping Di, George Mason University
11.00 Mining Environmental Earth Data: A Users Perspective (.pdf 5.23 MB)
Ross Lunetta, United States Environmental Protection Agency
11.30 Coffee break
11.40 Earth Understanding from Observation: A Contextual Approach (.zip 24.5 MB)
Roger King, Mississippi State University
12.20 Image Information Mining: Concepts, Theory, Systems - anno 2009
Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
13.00 Lunch
Afternoon Session
Chairperson: Klaus Seidel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich
15.00 A Decade of Image Information Mining (.pdf 574 KB)
Klaus Seidel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich
15.30 ESA's Information Mining and Services (.pdf 8.07 MB)
Sergio D'Elia, European Space Agency (ESA)
16.00 A Similarity Measure between Regions in Satellite Images - for Zone Classification/Recognition, by means of the PRDC Technique (.pdf 1.33 MB)
Catalin Cucu-Dumitrescu, Advanced Studies and Research Center (ASRC)
16.30 Coffee break
16.50 - 18.00 Round table
Chairperson: Roger King, Mississippi State University
Members of the panel:
Budhendra L. Bhaduri, DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Liping Di, George Mason University
Mihai Datcu, German Aerosapce Center (DLR)
Klaus Seidel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich
Sergio D'Elia, ESA
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Morning Session
Chairperson: Martino Pesaresi, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra
10.00 Automatic image information extraction from VHR remotely sensed data in support to European external policies and disaster mitigation (.pdf 5.91 MB)
Martino Pesaresi, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra
10.30 Structural Models for Content-Based Classification and Retrieval of Geospatial Data (.pdf 15.5 MB)
Selim Aksoy, Bilkent University, Ankara
11.00 Index support for classifying streams of varying speed (.pdf 1.2 MB)
Ira Assent, Aalborg University, Denmark
11.30 Closing panel and conclusions
12.00 End of workshop