Hydrosys
Advanced spatial analysis tools for on-site environmental monitoring and management.
Publications
Research system
Publications
__ Kruijff, E., Mendez, E., Veas, E., Gruenewald, T., Simoni, S., Luyet, V., Salminen, O., Nurminen, A., Lehtinen, V. HYDROSYS: on-site monitoring and management of environmental processes using handheld devices. To appear in: GeoHydroinformatics: Integrating GIS and Water Engineering. Anand, S., Ware, M., Jackson, M., Vairavamoorthy, K., Abrahart, R. (eds). Published by CRC Press (in press).
Presentations and posters
__ Ari Jolma et al. HYDROSYS: spatial analysis tools for on-site environmental monitoring and management. Poster presented at the 4th GEO European Projects Workshop, 29-30 April 2010, Athens, Greece.
__ Veas, E., Kruijff, E., Mendez, E. HYDROSYS - first approaches towards on-site monitoring and management with handhelds. eEnvironment 2009, Prague, 2009.
Sensor technology, storage and processing
Global Sensor Network system
Publications
__ N. Bonvin, T. G. Papaioannou, and K. Aberer. An economic approach for scalable and highly-available distributed applications. In Proc. of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, 2010. [PDF]
__ N. Bonvin, T. G. Papaioannou, and K. Aberer. A self-organized, fault-tolerant and scalable replication scheme for cloud storage. In Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2010. [PDF]
__ Bonvin, N., Papaioannou, T., Aberer, K. Cost-efficient and Differentiated Data Availability Guarantees in Data Clouds. In International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2010), 2010. [INFO]
__ N. Bonvin, T. G. Papaioannou, and K. Aberer. Dynamic Cost-Efficient Replication in Data Clouds. In First ACM Workshop on Automated Control for Datacenters and Clouds (ACDC09), 2009. [INFO]
__ Jurca O., Michel S., Herrmann A., Aberer K.: Processing Publish/Subscribe Queries over Distributed Data Streams; In proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems, 2009
Presentations and posters
__ Aberer, K.: Infrastructures for a smart earth; ASUT Seminar at SWISS TELECOMMUNICATION SUMMIT, Bern, June 2009
__ Aberer, K.: Swiss Experiment - From Wireless Sensor Networks to Sensor Data Management; Invited Talk at DMSN Workshop, July 2009.
__ Jeung H., Sarni S., Paparrizos I., Sathe S., Aberer K., Dawes N., Papaioannou T. G., Lehning M.: Effective Metadata Management in Federated Sensor Networks; SUTC, Newport Beach, CA, March 2010. Presented at SUTC 2010 by H. Jeung.
Simulation
Publications
__ Kuonen, P., Bavay, M., Lehning, M., POP-C++ and Alpine3D: petition for a new HPC approach. In: Advanced ICTs for Disaster Management and Threat Detection: Collaborative and Distributed Frameworks, in press.
Presentations and posters
__ Mathias Bavay, Thomas Egger, Laurent Winkler. 2010. MeteoIO: A Meteorological Data Pre-Processing Library for Numerical Models. Presentation at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly, May 2nd to May 7th 2010, Vienna, Austria.
__ Simoni, S., Egger, .T. and Bavay, M. the HYDROSYS toolchain GSN-MeteoIO-GEOtop. 2009. A presentation in joint public EPFL-TUG meeting, Lausanne.
Interactive visualization
Visualization
Publications
__ Kruijff, E., Swan II, E., Feiner, S. Perceptual Issues in Augmented Reality Revisited. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR'10), Seoul, Korea, 2010.[PDF]
__ Mendez, E., Feiner, S., Schmalstieg, D. Focus and Context in Mixed Reality by Modulating First Order Salient Features. In Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Smart Graphics, 2010. [PDF]
__ Mendez, E., Schmalstieg, D., Feiner, S. Experiences on Attention Direction through Manipulation of Salient Features. In Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality Workshop on Perceptual Illusions in Virtual Environments (IEEE VR 2010), 2010. [PDF]
__ Partala, T, Nurminen, A. and Vainio, T. 2010. Salience of visual cues in 3D city maps. British HCI 2010. (in press)
User interfaces
Publications
__ Veas, E., Mulloni, A., Kruijff, E., Regenbrecht, H., Schmalstieg, D. Techniques for View Transition in Multi-Camera Outdoor Environments. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2010 (GI2010), 2010. [PDF]
__ Nurminen, A. 2009. Mobile 3D City Maps, Doctoral Dissertation. Helsinki University of Technology.
__ Froechlich, P., Baldauf, M., Oulasvirta, A. and Nurminen, A. On the move and wired to the world. Communications of the ACM. (in press)
Presentations and posters
__ Eduardo Veas. 2010. Techniques for Exploring Multi-camera Setups. Winter Augmented Reality Meeting (WARM’10). Graz, Austria. [INFO]
__ Antti Nurminen. 2009. Maps in Mobile Services. Presentation at the Cartographic Society of Finland (SKS) and ProGIS Autumn Seminar 29.9.2009, Helsinki.
__ Antti Nurminen. 2009. Mobile 3D Maps. Keynote at SIGGRAPH Finland Autumn Event "Syysgraph 2009", 27.10.2009.
Environmental science research and application
Swiss scenarios
Publications
__ Mott, R. and Lehning, M.: Meteorological modelling of very high resolution wind fields and snow deposition for mountains, J. Hydromet., doi:10.1175/2010JHM1216.1, in press. [INFO]
__ Mitterer, C.; Mott, R.; Schweizer, J., 2009: Observations and analysis of two large wet-snow avalanche cycles. Proceedings of the International Snow Science Workshop (ISSW 09 Europe), 27. September to 2 October 2009, Davos, Switzerland, 2009. [PDF]
__ Simoni, S., Assessing of the impact of spatial heterogeneity on natural hazards for an Alpine watershed, Newsletter of the Mountain Research Initiative, no. 4, May 2010
Presentations and posters
__ Rebecca Mott, Thomas Grünewald, Michael Schirmer, Vanessa Wirz, and Michael Lehning. 2010. Understanding snow deposition on mountain slopes Presentation at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly, May 2nd to May 7th 2010, Vienna, Austria.
__ Dawes, N., Lehning M., Aberer K., Parlange M., Bavay M., Berne M.: Swiss Experiment: Providing diverse snow research data sets when and where they are required. . Poster presented at the International Snow Science Workshop 27 September to 2 October 2009, Davos, Switzerland.
__ Thomas Grünewald, Ernst Kruijff, Nicholas Dawes, Michael Lehninget al. 2009. HYDROSYS: in-area feedback development on top of SwissEx technology. Poster presented at the International Snow Science Workshop 27 September to 2 October 2009, Davos, Switzerland. [PDF]
Nordic scenarios
Publications
__ Ferencik, I., Niemi, T. and Jolma, A. 2010. On site environmental modeling and monitoring: the Nordic Scenario in HYDROSYS project. In Proceedings of iEMSs 2010 International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software. Ottawa, Canada. (in press)
__ Niemi, T. 2010. Development of a hydraulic model and its application to a small urban stream . Master's thesis. Aalto University.
Presentations and posters
__ Tero Niemi. 2010. Modelling the hydraulics of a small suburban stream. Presentation in a conference ”Kansallinen mallinnusseminaari”. 8.2.2010. Helsinki, Finland.







