[Research] it is on THURSDAY! Re: Special Auton Lab meeting: This Friday Dec 1st at Noon in NSH 3305

[Artur Dubrawski]

Sorry it is on Thursday not Friday!

Artur

On 11/28/2011 11:10 AM, Artur Dubrawski wrote:
> Speaker:
>
> Vlad Ermakov
>
> Title:
>
> Firefighters from Outer Space: Game With a Purpose Approach for
> Improving Sensing of Forest Fires
>
> Abstract:
>
> Remote sensing is an integral part of forest fire monitoring
> services around the world. Most widely accepted approach relies on the
> MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) sensors, mounted
> on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites. These sensors can measure
> reflected light and emitted heat from any location on Earth multiple
> times a day, but have poor resolution. Collecting ground truth to
> evaluate performance of various detection algorithms has been a
> challenging and a costly task. This talk presents a scalable approach
> to it. A recently launched game-with-a-purpose "Firefighters from Outer
> Space" is a limited beta, but it has already attracted many users and a
> lot of interest from remote sensing community in Russia, receiving the
> first place award in "Monitoring Forest Fires" competition. We were
> able to use the data gathered using this human computation based
> approach to measure detection accuracy, and evaluate several techniques
> that can hopefully lead to faster detection and response, and more
> accurate statistics about forest fires.
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