Focus onStrategic R&D

Budhendra Bhaduri, Raju VatsavaiGeographic Information Science and Technology (GIST), Computational Sciences and Engineering Division.

August 25, 2011Minneapolis, MN

Envisioning 2020 Spatial Research

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ORNL: A pioneer in Geospatial Science and Technology

Rich History Spanning 40 years

Defining Geospatial Research Agendas

Developing New Algorithms, Software, and Data

Conducting Verification & Validation Studies

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Science and Technology Focus· High Resolution Population and Social

Dynamics– Geographic Pattern Recognition– Population-Infrastructure Dependency– Demographic Analysis

· Geographic Data Sciences– Feature exploitation and pattern recognition– Unstructured and streaming data analysis– Spatiotemporal data mining, statistics, and

uncertainty analysis– Participatory sensing and volunteered geographic

information– Geospatial ontology and semantics– Standards and interoperability– Physical and social network analysis

· Geocomputation and Visualization– High performance geocomputation– Scalable visualization– Emerging architectures

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Programmatic Focus Areas· Population and Critical Infrastructure

Modeling– Population Distribution in space and time– Socioeconomic Characterization– Event specific population response – Geography of terrorism

· Energy Assurance– Energy and water resources assurance and

reliability– Modeling and visualizing the “Smart Grid”– Bioenergy and Renewable Energy Integration

· Transportation M&S– Multimodal Route Optimization– Intelligent Evacuation Planning

· Emergency Preparedness and Response– Time Critical Decision Support– Disaster Risk Analysis

· Earth Science Informatics– Real Time Data Integration– Intuitive (HCI) Geospatial Application

Development

· Climate Change Science– Climate Extremes and Infrastructures

– Climate Change and Population Response

– Energy and National Security

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Science & Technology Objectives

· For advancing the state of the art in geospatial intelligence, climate and ecological sciences, and energy resource stewardship, develop the best in class capabilities for:– Multidimensional (XYZ, T) data

processing and integration– Spatiotemporal database management– Spatiotemporal statistics and data

mining– High Performance geocomputation– Scalable spatiotemporal visualization

· Meeting the needs of national priority missions will require – basic advancements leading technology (research on GIST)– market driven solutions following demand (research with GIST)

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Homeland Security

Homeland Security

Cross-disciplinary Approach will foster Innovation

PhilosophyPhilosophy

InformationScience &

Technology

InformationScience &

Technology

GeographyGeography

CognitiveScience

CognitiveScience

MathematicsMathematics

StatisticsStatistics

ComputerScience

ComputerScience

EngineeringEngineering

National &Homeland Security

National &Homeland Security

EnergyEnergy

ClimateClimate

LandscapeArchitectureLandscape

Architecture

GeographicInformation

Science

GeographicInformation

Science

Applications ofGI Science &Technology

Applications ofGI Science &Technology

GeospatialTechnologyGeospatialTechnology

PhysicsPhysics

Homeland Security

Homeland Security

Transportation

Transportation

EcologyEcology

Geospatial Information Science & Technology

(Modified from GIS&T Body of Knowledge by AAG and UCGIS)

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Climate Change Science

· Feedbacks among climate, land use, and population distribution

· Climate induced hazards and infrastructure impacts

· Spatiotemporal translation of regional climate impacts on local decisions

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Energy Assurance

· Spatiotemporal assessment of renewable energy potential

· Bioresource monitoring for energy security

· Geographically scalable spatiotemporal optimization for energy supply chain

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National & Homeland Security

· On demand and just-in-time delivery of geospatial intelligence for time critical decision support

· Image and video based object recognition and tracking for nuclear nonproliferation

· Multimodal data fusion for landscape process characterization

· Extraction and integration of voluntary geographic information for rapid response and recovery

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Environmental Science

· Accurate spatiotemporal assessment of biomass resources with 3D data

· Photorealistic visualization for ecological response models

· Habitat analysis with multisensor and multimodal data

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Transportation

· Dynamic tracking of fleet movement from multi-sensor data

· Travel behavior modeling for congestion and safety

· Spatiotemporal data mining and visualization for improved operations and communication

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Simple, but not so simple