2020 November Virtual IAB Meeting

The I/UCRC for Spatiotemporal Thinking, Computing and Applications (a.k.a. NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center) holds its 14th semi-annual Industrial Advisory Board meeting November 5, 2020 virtually due to the outbreak of COVID-19. This meeting reviews the center’s innovative research and identifies new projects to be supported through collaborations among academia, industry, and agencies. All center research results are freely shared among members to boost their products, services, and businesses. All companies or agencies (with interest in geospatial and spatiotemporal research themes) are welcome to participate. This is a prime time to become familiar with cutting-edge research results, leverage the innovative outcome for your future products and services, increase your efficiency, improve your competitiveness, and boost your business.

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Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020
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Duration
Agenda
Speakers
Moderator
11:00 AM
11:05 AM
0:05
Welcome
 TBD Phil Yang
11:05 AM
11:25 AM
0:20
NSF I/UCRC Program Introduction
David Meyer/Behrooz Shirazi
11:25 AM
11:35 AM
0:10
IAB Meeting Protocol
David Meyer
11:35 pM
12:25 pM
0:50
Project Reports or New Proposals 
Wendy Guan
11:35 AM
11:45 AM
0:10
STC-19-00 STC Center Introduction and Progress Report | Abstract 
Phil Yang, 
Wendy Guan
11:45 AM
11:55 PM
0:10
GMU-17-04 Integration and Applications of Geo-JPSS Flood DetectionAbstract Donglian Sun
11:55 PM
12:05 PM
0:10
GMU-19-01 Cloud Classification | Abstract Qian Liu
12:05 PM
12:15 PM
0:10
UHI Forecasting in the Urban setting /GMU-20-01 Improving the Air Quality | Abstract  Jingchao Yang, Manzhu Yu
12:15 PM
12:25 PM
0:10
STC-15-02 Dynamic Mapping of Secondary Cities | Abstract Laura Cline
12:25 PM
1:10 PM
0:45
Lunch Break & Social Chat
1:10 pM
3:00 pM
1:50
Project Reports or New Proposals 
Mike Little/ Phil Yang
1:10 PM 1:20 PM 0:10 Harvard-19-01 CDL: Developing an online spatial data sharing and management platform | Abstract Tao Hu
1:20 PM 1:30 PM 0:10 STC-20-02 Spatiotemporal Analytics of COVID-19’s Second-Order Impacts on Global Vulnerable Urban Areas | Abstract | Abstract Melinda Laituri
1:30 PM 1:40 PM 0:10 GMU-20-02 Could We Open The Schools and How? | Abstract Hai Lan
1:40 PM
1:50 PM
0:10
Harvard-17-01 Evaluating OmniSci, Open Source GPU-powered SQL Database | Abstract Ben Lewis
1:50 PM
2:00 PM
0:10
GMU-20-04 Using Machine Learning Methods to Improve the Categorization of Health Questions | Abstract Ruixin Yang, Yun Li
2:00 PM
2:10 PM
0:10
STC-20-01 Innovating a Computing Infrastructure for Spatiotemporal Studies | Abstract Matt Rice
2:10 PM
2:20 PM
0:10
STC-19-02 Spatiotemporal Innovation Testbed | Abstract  Zifu Wang
2:20 PM
2:30 PM
0:10
Harvard-19-06 Elevating Research Excellence with Data Repository and AI Ecosystem | Abstract Merce Crosas
2:30 PM
2:40 PM
0:10
Harvard-20-03 Historical Forest Changes Detection Using Satellite Imagery and Google Earth Engine | Abstract Xue Liu
2:40 PM
2:50 PM
0:10
Harvard-20-04 Developing an Active-Learning Based Platform to Evaluate The Impacts of China’s Belt-Road Initiatives Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery | Abstract Cong Peng
2:50 PM
3:00 PM
0:10
GMU-19-03 Planetary Defense| Abstract Kyla Carte, Yun Li
3:00 PM
3:15 PM
0:15
Break & Complete LIFE form
3:15 PM 5:10 PM 1:55 Group Discussions & Summary
3:15 PM
3:45 PM
0:30
Review LIFE Form David Meyer
3:45 PM
4:15 PM
0:30
Discussion on collaboration among all sites, research directions & ideas Michael Goodchild
4:15 PM
4:25 PM
0:10
Potential new sites briefing Yanfang Su, John Wilson Phil Yang
4:25 PM
5:05 PM
0:40
Board Member Meeting Myra Bambacus, Mike Little
5:05 PM
5:10 PM
0:05
Summary and closure Phil Yang, Wendy Guan
Note: All times are in EST