Providing unique experiences to reduce time to insight and knowledge through visualizing data and information

The SensorMap project at Microsoft Research provides a common platform and set of tools for data owners to easily publish and query sensor data from live data sources. We are building a portfolio of research projects that take advantage of the SensorMap platform:

• To develop shared infrastructure and tools for data publishing, data management, and data querying and visualization
• To build an open, diverse community of sensor data publishers and consumers

Projects

• SensorMap: Browsing the Physical World in Real-Time 
  Microsoft Research is partnering with selected academic projects to build infrastructure support and tools:
  • To simplify publishing data to SensorMap
  • To build new services or break down existing ones to make SensorMap data more useful
• Examples of current projects:
  • Swiss Experiment, EPFL
  • National Weather Study Project, Intelligent Systems Centre, Nanyang Technological University
  • CitySense, an Open, Urban-Scale Sensor Network Testbed, Harvard University
  • SensorMap for the Great Barrier Reef, ISSNIP, Australia
  • See all SensorMap project awards…

Research Tools and Services

• Sensor Map Tools
  • SenseWeb – Peer-Produced, Worldwide Sensor Network: tutorial and reports
  • Networked Embedded Sensing Toolkit from Microsoft Research
  • SensorMap Live Site
  • SensorMap Forum on Microsoft Research
•  Visualization Tools
  • NodeXL on Codeplex
    A pair of applications for viewing network graphs and adding network graphs to custom applications
  • Silverlight Tools for Visual Solutions
• Photosynth
  A Microsoft Live Labs tool for constructing a 3D environment from regular photos
  • Photosynth Installation and Examples
  • Photosynth Community
• Worldwide Telescope
  An open platform from Microsoft Research that astronomers use to make data and images available to the community
  • Authoring for Worldwide Telescope
  • Worldwide Telescope Live Site and Download

Publications

• Optima: Tool for Ontology Alignment with Application to Semantic Reconciliation of Sensor Metadata for Publication in Sensormap, Kolli and Doshi, Large Scale Distributed Information Systems, University of Georgia
• "SenseWeb: An Infrastructure for Shared Sensing," IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 8-13, October-December 2007

Events and Opportunities

• Microsoft eScience Workshop at IUPUI
  December 7-9, 2008, Indianapolis, IN, USA
• AGU 2008 - American Geophysical Union
  December 15, 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA

Earth, Energy and Environment Topics

• Earth, Energy Home
• Accessible and Consumable Data
• Visualizing and Experiencing Data
• Earth, Energy Papers and Presentations 
• Case Studies

More Resources

• eScience & Technical Computing Blog
• Academic Resource Center: Sensor Networks
• Microsoft Environment
• MSDN Academic Alliance
• Silverlight Tools for Visual Solutions
• Worldwide Telescope