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RESEARCH PROGRAMS in GeoInfomatics Ecological studies depend on the ability to monitor an environment, collect data at appropriate spatial and temporal scales, and analyze that data from the diverse viewpoints of many relevant disciplines. Recent years have seen dramatic advancement in the ability to gather environmental data remotely and therefore at much higher frequency. There remains a need to create techniques for data collection that operate across multiple scales of time and space, and data management, analysis, and visualization capabilities that operate across a range of computing platforms to make this data immediately accessible and useful to a range of interested parties, across multiple disciplines. We seek to create a dynamic and integrated network of environmental sensors of real environments using real time data and create tools for visualization appropriate for different audiences to promote scientific exploration. Visualization of real time data generated from a spectrum of dynamic ecosystems through remote sensors distributed throughout Marion and Hamilton Counties provides numerous challenges. The benefits of successfully integrating remotely deployed environmental sensors in a post-911 world are obvious. The CEES research site network is focused on combining research and education in ecological restoration and water quality. At the present time, CEES maintains four wetland restoration sites that span a range of ecosystem types throughout Marion County and extending into southern Hamilton County and monitors water quality along the White River and in Eagle Creek Reservoir. In the next few months, we will expand the number of instruments deployed at our research sites from 5 to 24 and will increase the number of instrumented sites form two to six. We will expand the complexity of the instrumentation to include sondes that measure a suite of physical and chemical parameters and we will have the ability to transmit data for continuous data retrieval.
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