Focus on Strategic R&D Budhendra Bhaduri, Raju Vatsavai Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST), Computational Sciences and Engineering Division. August 25, 2011 Minneapolis, MN Envisioning 2020 Spatial Research

Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy 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

Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy 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

Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy 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

Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy 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)

Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy HomelandSecurityHomelandSecurity Cross-disciplinary Approach will foster InnovationPhilosophyPhilosophy Information Science & TechnologyInformation Technology GeographyGeography CognitiveScienceCognitiveScience MathematicsMathematics StatisticsStatistics ComputerScienceComputerScience EngineeringEngineering National & HomelandSecurity HomelandSecurity EnergyEnergy ClimateClimate LandscapeArchitectureLandscapeArchitecture GeographicInformationScienceGeographicInformationScience Applications of GI Science & Technology Applications of GI Science & Technology GeospatialTechnologyGeospatialTechnology PhysicsPhysics HomelandSecurityHomelandSecurity Transportation Transportation EcologyEcology Geospatial Information Science & Technology (Modified from GIS&T Body of Knowledge by AAG and UCGIS)

Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy 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

Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Energy Assurance  Spatiotemporal assessment of renewable energy potential  Bioresource monitoring for energy security  Geographically scalable spatiotemporal optimization for energy supply chain

Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy 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 (a) (b)

Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Environmental Science  Accurate spatiotemporal assessment of biomass resources with 3D data  Photorealistic visualization for ecological response models  Habitat analysis with multisensor and multimodal data

Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy 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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