Fieldservers and Sensor Service Grid as Real-time Monitoring Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Sensor Networks

The fieldserver is an Internet based observation robot that can provide an outdoor solution for monitoring environmental parameters in real-time. The data from its sensors can be collected to a central server infrastructure and published on the Internet. The information from the sensor network will contribute to monitoring and modeling on various environmental issues in Asia, including agriculture, food, pollution, disaster, climate change etc. An initiative called Sensor Asia is developing an infrastructure called Sensor Service Grid (SSG), which integrates fieldservers and Web GIS to realize easy and low cost installation and operation of ubiquitous field sensor networks

Sensing a Changing World

workshop “Sensing a Changing World” was held in Wageningen, The Netherlands, from November 19–21, 2008. The main goal of the workshop was to explore and discuss recent developments in sensors and (wireless) sensor networks for monitoring environmental processes and human spatial behavior in a changing world. The challenge is then to develop concepts and applications that can provide timely and on-demand knowledge to end-users in different domains over a range of different spatial and temporal scales. During this workshop over 50 participants, representing 15 countries, presented and discussed their recent research. The workshop provided a broad overview of state-of-the-art research in a broad range of application fields: oceanography, air quality, biodiversity and vegetation, health, tourism, water management, and agriculture. In addition the workshop identified the future research challenges. One of the outcomes of the workshop was a special issue in the journal Sensors with contributions presented at the workshop. This editorial of the special issue aims to provide an overview of the discussions held during the workshop. It highlights the ideas of the authors and participants of the workshop about directions of future research for further development of sensor-webs for “sensing” spatial phenomena. The “big” question was are we already able to sense a changing world? And if the answer is positive, then what are we going to sense and for what

Studies on Sensor Networks with Fiber Optics for Agricultural Environment Monitoring

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e-PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITY BASED APPROACH ON LANDSLIDE PREPAREDNESS AND MITIGATION

IImu pengetahuan merupakan indikator penting dalam menentukan keberkesanan susun atur strategi bagi menangani kejadian tanah runtuh. Pengetahuan untuk mengenal pasti tanda-tanda awal tanah runtuh adalah perlu bagi mereka yang tinggal terutamanya di kawasan-kawasan berisiko tinggi. Knowledge is an important indicator in an effective landslide mitigation strategy. Knowledge has to be acquired by people living in high risk areas for landslide occurrence such that they will be able to identify early signs of landslides