Improve Discovery and Acquisition of Environmental Information
Explore innovative means of gathering geospatial data through the use of sensors and other devices across multiple fields of environmental research, including hydrology, geology, oceanography, seismology, bathymetry, geography, climatology, ecology, and biologic systems.

• Mobile Wireless Sensor-Network Monitoring and Management Tool - Tool
• An End-to-End Soil Ecology Sensor Network, Database, Web Server, and Analysis Service - Publication
• Wireless Phones Eavesdrop on Australian Wildlife - Article
• AI, Sensing, and Optimized Information Gathering - Presentation
• ScatterWeb .NET SDK - Tool

Develop Novel Software to Process, Manage, Query, Retrieve, and Visualize Environmental Data
Design software solutions for the processing, managing, archiving, querying, retrieving, and publishing of environmental data from geospatial networks.

• MSR Geospatial Projects - SenseWeb | SensorMap | Networked Embedded Sensing Toolkit
• SenseWeb: Browsing the Physical World in Real Time - Publication
• OPTIMA: Tool for Ontology Alignment (SensorMap) - Publication
• SciScope - Project Description | Project Site | Demo

Facilitate the Synthesis of Large-Scale Environmental Data Sets
Enable environmental data to be collected, used, and maintained in a sustainable manner and remain applicable across a broad array of science domains.

• Publication and Curation of Large-Scale Environmental Data Sets - Publication

Enable Shared Communities of Sensor Data Publishers and Consumers
Encourage data sharing and preservation of knowledge across projects and institutions through the development of generic, peer-produced acquisition, databasing and querying infrastructures that are open and flexible enough to still enable individual scientists to process the data against their own requirements.

• SenseWeb: An Infrastructure for Shared Sensing - Publication
• SenseWeb: Wikipedia of Sensors - Presentation
• Environmental Monitoring 2.0 - Publication
• New Tools Mobilize Local Data to Study Environmental Research - Blog Post

Advance Data Models for Environmental Observation
Create new models that can handle the flood of environmental data sets that widely variable in time scale, length scale, name convention, and provenance and may contain date and/or location data that is non-numerical or categorical.

• A Data Model for Environmental Observations - Publication
• Researchers Create a Digital Watershed of Data - Article
• Making Sense of Data Overload - Information Sheet
• Software Architecture, Global Warming, MIPS, and Hydrology - Video

Progress Geospatial Analysis through Innovative Research Projects
Apply advancements made in discovering, acquiring, processing, managing, visualization and modeling environmental data to real-world scientific research; showcasing the potential of software to help scientists better understand changes in our global environment with geo-spatial technologies.

• Microsoft Research Seeks Ways to Measure Earth's Health - Article
• Studying Climate Change with SEAMONSTER - Article
• Swiss Experiment: Interdisciplinary Environmental Research - Website