Event Date and Time
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Location
1158 LeFrak Hall
Please join us this Thursday (2/13) in room 1158 LeFrak Hall for the Department Seminar with George Percivall from the Open Geospatial Consortium.
- 3:45-4:00 pm Refreshments and mingling with the speaker
- 4:00-5:00 pm Seminar Talk
Seminar Title: Geospatial Data Science - Results from the Location Powers Summit
Abstract: Geospatial Data Science is the art and craft of people leveraging technology to create value out of data that has a location context. This talk presents assessments and recommendations from the recent Location Powers: Data Science Summit (http://www.locationpowers.net/). The summit examined how the explosive availability of data about nearly every aspect of human activity along with revolutionary advances in computing technologies is transforming geospatial data science. The shift from data-scarce to data-rich environment comes from mobile devices, remote sensing and the Internet of Things. Nearly all of this data has components of location and time. The geospatial community needs to respond with methods for decreasing the brittleness of machine learning, for increasing the use of knowledge-based models in data science, and by developing techniques for fast streaming data including spatial-temporal analytics.
About the Speaker: George Percivall is CTO and Chief Engineer for the Open Geospatial Consortium. As CTO he is responsible for working with OGC members to spur technology development across the OGC Programs; and chairs the OGC Architecture Board. Previously he led geospatial information projects and standards development for NASA, Hughes Aircraft and General Motors. He has Physics and EE degrees from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
