K.C.E.Society's MOOLJI JAITHA COLLEGE, JALGAON NAAC Accredited "A" Grade and UGC Honoured "College with Potential for Excellence" Sponsored WATERSHED SURVEILLANCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Jala-SRI)

About Workshop

Geoinformatics for spatial and temporal hotspot detection and prioritization is a critical need for the 21st Century. A declared need is around for statistical geoinformatics and software infrastructure for spatial and spatiotemporal hotspot detection, prioritization, early warning, and sustainable management. Hotspot means an unusual phenomenon, anomaly, aberration, outbreak, elevated cluster, and critical area. The declared need may be for monitoring, etiology, early warning, or management. The responsible factors may be natural, accidental, or intentional. The five-year NSF DGP project has been instrumental to conceptualize hotspot geoinformatics partnership of several interested cross-disciplinary scientists in academia, agencies, and private sector around the world.

Our efforts are driven by a wide variety of case studies of interest to agencies, academia, and private sector involving critical societal issues, such as public health, ecosystem health, ecohealth, biodiversity and threats to biodiversity, emerging infectious disease, water management and conservation, carbon sources and sinks, persistent poverty, environmental justice, crop pathogens, invasive species management, biosurveillance, biosecurity, disease biogeoinformatics, social networks, sensor networks, hospital networks and syndromic surveillance, video mining, early warning, tsunami inundation, remote sensing, and disaster management. Also space-time disease, poverty, pollution, object identification and tracking, early detection, early warning, hotspot trajectories and trends with examples of West Nile Virus, urban poverty patch dynamics, etc. The project emphasises on the development of geoinformatic hotspot system. The system has two methodological components: hotspot detection and prioritization.

Thrust areas and group leaders of the workshop

1. Watershed Assessment and Management: Patil, Dharmadhikari, and Myers
2. Biodiversity, Climate Change, Ecosystem Health, and EcoHealth: Patil and Gupta
3. Geospatial and Spatiotemporal Data Analysis: Patil, Myers, and Gore
4. Hotspot Detection and Early Warning: Patil and Joshi
5. Multi-criteria Prioritization and Ranking: Patil, Bruggemann, and Myers
6. Computational Algorithms and Computer Software: Bruggemann, Myers,Joshi, Gore
7. Digital Governance and Case Studies: Patil, Gupta, and Dharmadhikari
8. Recreation and Entertainment: December 16-17: Saturday Eve. (Jhelum Group), Sunday (visit to Ajantha (Optional))

Title of the sponsoring agency

Surveillance GeoInformatics Project of the Digital Government Research Program of the United States National Science Foundation.

Workshop Organizer’s Name and Email Address

Ganapati P. Patil

gpp@stat.psu.edu

Researchers to be invited from India and abroad for shortcourse/workshop

1. G.P. Patil, USA, December 11-22.
2. Rainer Bruggemann, Germany, December 15-21.
3. Wayne Myers, USA, December 19-22 and December 23-25.
4. Sharad Joshi, USA, December xx-xx, and January xx-xx.
5. Sharad Gore, India, December 11-22, December 23-25, and January xx-xx.
6. Sudhanshu Gupta, India, December 11-22, December 23-25, and January xx-xx.
7. Vinay Dharmadhikari, India, December 11-14.

Call for Participation

The emphasis of the proposed workshop is on geoinformatics of hotspot detection and prioritization in a wide variety of subject areas and critical issues confronting agencies, academia, and industry. You are invited to participate in a manner most productive for your purposes, whether presentation of a paper with live case studies, attendance in a timely, informative, and insightful workshop, or both. You will have the benefit of veteran crossdisciplinary scientists as perceptive expositor, workshop leader, and editor of resulting publications. And, of course, an opportunity to strengthen, advance, and accelerate your in-house research and work plan involving geoinformatics and hotspot dynamics.

The proposed overview part will provide up-to-date exposition with live examples and illustrations. The proposed workshop part will emphasize presentations of case studies using preferably the methodology and software available. The participants will be encouraged to be in contact with the workshop organizer before and after the workshop to help formulate and finalize their case studies for workshop presentation and publication.

The best case studies of the participants will be invited for presentation at an Annual Digital Government Research Conference Symposium from Surveillance Geo-Informatics on Hotspot Detection and Prioritization to be held in USA. Publications are planned for special issues of subject area edited monographs.

The interested researchers and scientists are requested to forward their CV and case study / research paper alongwith the registration form.

The workshop being a specialized subject specific one, the participation is restricted to 100 delegates. The registration fee is Rs. 6000 /- (125 US $) which shall cover reasonable lodging, boarding and course material.

For limited number of selected participants, there is a possibility of reimbursement of registration fee through NSF project.

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