1. Source: http://archive.salon.com/comics/tomo/2001/07/09/tomo/index.html,http://archive.salon.com/comics/tomo/2001/07/09/tomo/index.html www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=360842

2. Shashi Shekhar Mcknight Distinguished University Professor Contact Info : www.cs.umn.edu/ ~shekhar, www.spatial.cs.umn.edu Area: Spatial Databases, Spatial Data Mining, Geographic Info. Systems Courses: Csci 8715: Spatial Databases, Csci 4707: Database I (Fall 2008) Projects: NSF: III-CXT: Spatio-temporal Graph Databases for Transportation Science NSF: IGERT: Non-equilibrium Dynamics Across Space and Time NSF: CRI:IAD Infrastructure for Research in Spatio-Temporal and Context-Aware Systems and Applications USDOD: Spatio-Temporal Pattern Mining for Multi-Juris. Multi-Temporal Activity Datasets USDOJ: Spatial Database Research for Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety USDOD: Modeling and Mining Spatio-temporal Data UM: OVPR: Minnesota Futures: Exploring Spatio-temporal Future of Geo-Informatics

3. Spatial Databases: Representative Projects only in old plan Only in new plan In both plans Evacutation Route Planning Parallelize Range Queries Storing graphs in disk blocksShortest Paths

4. Spatial Data Mining : Representative Projects Nest locationsDistance to open water Vegetation durability Water depth Location prediction: nesting sitesSpatial outliers: sensor (#9) on I-35Co-location PatternsTele connections

5. (Geo) Informatics across Disciplines!

6. Spatio-Temporal (ST) Questions How do we conceptualize spatio-temporal (ST) worlds? How do we measure ST concepts, recognize them in (remotely) sensed information or in the field, and identify their accuracy and quality? How do we represent ST concepts with incomplete/ uncertain information, with alternative data models, and possibly with multiple representations for the same data, in digital environments? How do we store, access, and transform ST concepts, facilitating data sharing, data transfer, and data archiving, while ensuring minimum information loss? How do we explain ST phenomena through the application of appropriate methods of forward or inverse models of physical and human processes? How do we visualize ST concepts on a variety of media such as maps on electronic displays or animated displays ? How do we use ST concepts to think about spatio-temporal phenomena, and to seek explanations for spatio-temporal patterns and phenomena? Source: Adaptation from NCGIA proposal to NSF by Goodchild et al.