http://wiki-upstream/ 2026-05-03T14:41:57+00:00 http://wiki-upstream/ http://wiki-upstream/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki-128.png text/html 2009-03-31T10:50:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:analogical_reasoning_on_spatial_temporal_patterns_in_the_brazilian_amazon&rev=1238496621&do=diff Analogical Reasoning on Spatial Temporal Patterns in the Brazilian Amazon At INPE large expertise, data from remote sensing and field work experience for the Brazilian Amazon are available. How can these resources be used to increase the knowledge about the evolution of spatial temporal patterns? The analysis of evolution in different areas shows several dominant spatial temporal patterns of change. The PhD student will investigate what meaningful ways are to describe and to compare these patte… text/html 2009-03-19T12:45:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:application_of_the_algebraic_view_on_sensors_to_the_dengue_fever_aedes_aegypti_eggs_use_case&rev=1237466750&do=diff Application of the algebraic view on sensors to the dengue fever (aedes aegypti eggs) use case. In recent years, there have been several outbreaks of dengue fever epedemics in Brasil. To monitor the mosquito agents of the dengue fever, a network of mosquito eggs buckets has been deployed. The algebraic view on sensors depicts a formalism of sensors on different spatial scale levels. In this master thesis, it will be investigated whether this formalism could be applied to the dengue fever use c… text/html 2009-03-19T12:34:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:at_which_abstraction_level_do_we_need_to_introduce_objects_can_we_avoid_them&rev=1237466046&do=diff The hypothesis of this work is that objects (like forests or water bodies) are not needed for most change models and can be substituted by observations, surfaces, substances, and media. Avoiding objects as long as possible in the “food chain of sensors text/html 2009-03-19T19:28:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:at_which_sensor_abstraction_level_do_we_need_to_introduce_objects_can_we_avoid_them&rev=1237490894&do=diff The hypothesis of this work is that objects (like forests or water bodies) are not needed for most change models and can be substituted by observations, surfaces, substances, and media. Avoiding objects as long as possible in the “food chain of sensors” has the advantage of reducing the semantic heterogeneity of models, as object classes vary across information communities. The MSc student will study at least two change questions (e.g., deforestation, glacier melt), work out the chain of sensor … text/html 2009-03-19T19:06:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:development_of_suitable_tools_for_different_sensor_abstraction_levels&rev=1237489571&do=diff Title: "Development of suitable tools for different sensor abstraction levels" This Master thesis aims at the development of tools for the different levels of abstractions which can be applied in sensor network scenarios. These levels include the Sensor, Sensor System, Sensor Network, Sensor Web and Application level. The tools are supposed to facilitate the deployment of sensor networks, ease the management and administration or improve the usage of sensors and their gathered data. The work in… text/html 2009-03-31T10:12:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:develop_a_domain-specific_theory_of_land_use_changes_in_the_brazilian_amazon_master&rev=1238494322&do=diff Develop a domain-specific theory of land use changes in the Brazilian Amazon The topic of this Master thesis is to develop a domain-specific theory of land use changes in the Brazilian Amazon. With main focus on deforestation the student will apply different methods as statistical analysis of spatial temporal change patterns or interviews with domain experts. The outcome of this work is a domain-specific theory of land use changes in the Brazilian Amazon. This will be accomplished by defining d… text/html 2009-03-31T10:48:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:develop_a_domain-specific_theory_of_land_use_changes_in_urban_areas_in_brazil_and_germany&rev=1238496502&do=diff Develop a domain-specific theory of land use changes in urban areas in Brazil and Germany The focus of this Master thesis is to investigate the evolution of cities in Brazil and Germany. The student will use different methods like statistical analysis of spatial temporal patterns or interviews with domain experts. Description rules (i.e. rules to classify regions into different types) and evolution rules (i.e. rules to describe changes of the different types) have to be defined. The outcome of … text/html 2009-03-31T10:49:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:develop_a_domain-specific_theory_of_spatial_changes_in_europe&rev=1238496556&do=diff Develop a domain-specific theory of spatial changes in Europe The topic of this Master thesis is to develop a domain-specific theory of spatial changes in Europe. In history diverse reasons led to splitting or merging of different countries. This work concentrates on the spatial evolution of European countries and has to be done in close collaboration with historians. The student will analyze the spatial changes and thus be able to define description rules (i.e. rules to classify regions into d… text/html 2009-03-31T10:49:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:develop_a_general_theory_for_spatial_patterns_of_change&rev=1238496599&do=diff Develop a General Theory for Spatial Patterns of Change One of the important motivations for improvements on GIScience research is the increased availability of large sets of geospatial data that provide both spatial and temporal information. Such data sets include remote sensing databases, urban cadastral systems, and data for mobile devices. Given this availability of data, GIScience researchers are challenged to devise ways to use it effectively. One of the important scientific challenges … text/html 2009-03-18T18:59:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:develop_a_generic_theory_of_change&rev=1237402755&do=diff Develop a generic theory of change here be dragons text/html 2009-03-18T18:36:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:develop_domain-specific_theory_of_change_for_one_domain&rev=1237401384&do=diff Develop domain-specific theory of change for one domain Domains: * in Brazil: land use change (example: deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon) * in Germany: land use change (example: development of residential areas in urban areas) * with historians: political change in Brazil, Europe, Germany text/html 2009-03-18T19:00:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:generate_a_stakeholder-sensitive_rain_forest_report&rev=1237402834&do=diff Master thesis In this master thesis the idea is to provide a multimedia deforrestation reports (containing images, animations and text), which uses the data and models that experts use, to generate a report which explains the current situation of a change to normal citizens. For this purpose an analysis of current reports (e.g. in the news) have to be sighted and studied. Afterwards the expert models should be used to generate images and animations as well as template-based text descriptions of… text/html 2009-03-19T18:54:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:geotorrents&rev=1237488850&do=diff GeoTorrent Objective: Develop an extension to the BitTorrent Protocol [1] which takes the spatio-temporal aspects of geospatial data into account. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer protocol which, according to Wikipedia, provides “significant reduction in the original distributor's hardware and bandwidth resource costs. It also provides redundancy against system problems and reduces dependence on the original distributor. text/html 2009-05-15T18:28:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:inpeifgi2009&rev=1242412116&do=diff Scientific Cooperation between INPE and IFGI, University of Münster The Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and the Institute for GeoInformatics (ifgi) have cooperated for several years, e.g., in two ALFA projects, continuous research contacts, conference organization, exchange of teaching, and student mobility measures. text/html 2009-03-13T21:59:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:inpeifgi2009_fotos&rev=1236981569&do=diff Fotos from the Bilateral Event INPE & IFGI ===== Link to All Photos from Angela (please use the same login as for this wiki) [Group Picture] [Another Group Picture] text/html 2010-07-26T17:50:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:inpeifgi2010&rev=1280166623&do=diff GeoChange Research Symposium Pre-conference workshop of GeoInfo2010 November 27, 2010 The research symposium on GIScience for Environmental Change (“GeoChange”) is the second cooperative workshop organized by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and the Institute for Geoinformatics (ifigi), University of Münster. It will be held on November 27, 2010 at Campos do Jordao, Brazil. Read more about the symposium programme. text/html 2009-03-19T12:35:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:ontology_swrl_of_processes_and_data_sources_for_retrieval_and_composition_in_the_framework&rev=1237466139&do=diff Ph.D. topic: An Ontology of Processes and Data Sources for Retrieval and Composition of Mobile Sensor Networks Contact/Advisor: Krzysztof Janowicz Supervisor: Werner Kuhn Mobility: Work on the ontology should be done at ifgi, while modelling one process as use case can be done at INPE. text/html 2009-03-19T18:44:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:r_models_in_the_web&rev=1237488281&do=diff Deploying R models as Processing Services One assumption of sharing models is that we are able to create models using in this case R and afterwards are able to publish them. In this master thesis, the student will investigate how an executable R model can be deployed as Web Processing Services (together with all relevant input data and input constraints). The context we are looking at are where data are spatial and/or spatio-temporal and/or temporal, being served over OGC web services (SOS/WFS… text/html 2009-03-19T19:42:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:semantic_annotations_for_models&rev=1237491751&do=diff PhD: Models and Semantic Annotations Responsible... * Supervisor: Werner Kuhn (not yet confirmed) * Contact Person (IFGI): * Contact Person (INPE): * Responsible Student: Outline * Objectives / Potential Tasks * Ontologies capturing different aspects / types of models text/html 2009-03-19T19:37:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:sharing_models&rev=1237491446&do=diff Master: Sharing models? Feedback from the community. Responsible * Supervisor: Fred Fonseca * Contact Person (IFGI): Patrick Maué * Contact Person (INPE): ? * Responsible Student: Outline * Objectives: * Get feedback from the model community. text/html 2009-03-19T12:36:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:statistical_methods_for_the_conversion_between_the_different_abstraction_levels_of_the_framework&rev=1237466208&do=diff Statistical methods for the conversion between the different abstraction levels of the framework (PhD) Different types of data need different statistical methods to be analyzed. For instance, raw sensor data can be analyzed using a given set of techniques, whereas to analyze aggregated, we have to consider this previous data processing. Therefore, once we have identified the meaningful abstraction levels for the sensor data, we propose to identify the proper statistical methods to analyze these… text/html 2009-03-19T19:38:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki-upstream/doku.php?id=encontros_e_eventos:terrame_models_in_the_web&rev=1237491510&do=diff Deploying TerraME models as Web Services Responsible... * Supervisor: Tiago Carneiro (not yet confirmed) * Contact Person (IFGI): * Contact Person (INPE): * Responsible Student: Idea (copied) One assumption of sharing models is that we are able to create models (using in this case TerraME) and afterwards to publish them. In this master thesis, the student could investigate how an executable TerraME model can be deployed as Web Processing Services (together with all relevant input …