Finding solutions for the current period of climate change or “global warming” is possibly the most serious and pressing challenge faced by scientists and the wider community t...
Motivated by the needs of precise forest inventory and realtime surveillance for ecosystem management, in this paper we present GreenOrbs [1], a wireless sensor network system and...
We are rapidly moving toward a world where personal networked video cameras are ubiquitous. Already, camera-equipped cell phones are becoming commonplace. Imagine being able to ta...
Neil J. McCurdy, Jennifer N. Carlisle, William G. ...
A common pattern in scientific computing involves the execution of many tasks that are coupled only in the sense that the output of one may be passed as input to one or more other...
Yong Zhao, Mihael Hategan, Ben Clifford, Ian T. Fo...
We envision participatory texture documentation (PTD) as a process in which a group of users (dedicated individuals and/or general public) with camera-equipped mobile phones parti...
Cyrus Shahabi, Farnoush Banaei Kashani, Houtan Shi...