Date: Friday, April 10, 2015
Time: Talk: 12-1pm (lunch will be provided during seminar)
Location: Harvard SEAS, Maxwell Dworkin Bldg. Room G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
02138
Speaker: Budhendra Bhaduri, Corporate Research Fellow & Leads the Geographic
Information Science and Technology (GIST) group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Title: Big Data, Geospatial Computing, and My 2 Cents in an Open Data Economy
Abstract: In this rapidly urbanizing world, unprecedented rate of population growth is not
only mirrored by increasing demand for energy, food, water, and other natural resources,
but has detrimental impacts on environmental and human security. Much of our scientific
and technological focus has been to ensure a sustainable future with healthy people living
on a healthy planet where energy, environment, and mobility interests are simultaneously
optimized. Current geoanalytics are limited in dealing with temporal dynamics that
describe observed and/or predicted behaviors of entities i.e. physical and socioeconomic
processes. With increasing temporal resolution of geographic data, there is a compelling
motivation to couple the powerful modeling and analytical capability of a GIS to perform
spatial-temporal analysis and visualization on dynamic data streams. However, the
challenge in processing large volumes of high-resolution earth observation and simulation
data by traditional GIS has been compounded by the drive towards real-time applications
and decision support. The ability to observe and measure through direct instrumentation
of our environment and infrastructures, from buildings to planet scale, coupled with
explosion of data from citizen sensors, brings much promise for capturing the
social/behavioral dimension. Additionally, it provides a unique opportunity to manage and
increase efficiencies of existing built environments as well as design a more sustainable
future. This presentation will explore the intriguing developments in the world of Big
Data, geospatial computing, and plausible ways citizens can all become part of the open
data economy for advancing science and society.
This talk is also part of the Geography
Colloquium<http://gis.harvard.edu/events/seminar-series/colloquium> hosted at the
Center for Geographic Analysis.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Budhendra (Budhu) Bhaduri is a Corporate Research Fellow and leads the
Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST) group at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory. He is the founding director of the Oak Ridge Urban Dynamics Institute and
holds professorial appointments with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research
interests and experience include novel implementation of geospatial science and technology
in sustainable development research, including population dynamics, urbanization and
watershed impacts, energy resource assessment, and disaster management. He has served on
the Mapping Science Committee of the National Academy of Sciences, Geographic Information
Science and Applications and on a Strategic Highway Research Program, Expert Task Group of
the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies. He is a founding member
of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Geospatial Sciences Steering Committee and a recipient
of the Department’s Outstanding Mentor Award for his dedicated service for developing
future workforce for the nation.
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
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