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SUMMARY:Wireless in the Woods - Professor Steven D Glaser\,  TUM distingui
 shed Affiliated Professor\, University of California at Berkeley
DTSTART:20141030T160000Z
DTEND:20141030T173000Z
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CONTACT:Anama Lowday
DESCRIPTION:Approximately 2/3 of California’s water comes from snow in t
 he Sierra Nevada.  With better management\, California’s existing water 
 supply could go further to meeting the needs of the state’s urban and ag
 ricultural uses.  Currently\, California’s water reservoirs are controll
 ed and regulated using forecasts based upon more than 75 years of historic
 al data.  In the face of global climate change\, these forecasts are becom
 ing increasingly inadequate to precisely manage water resources.  We are i
 mplementing an intelligent water infrastructure system that leverages the 
 newest frontiers of information technology.\nThe system is based on blendi
 ng real-time ground based measurements and satellite and LiDAR remote imag
 ing.  To this end we have implemented the world’s largest wireless senso
 r network covering the upper reaches of the 4500 km2 American River Basin.
   We are nearing 15 subnetworks\, each covering approximately a 2 km2 area
  with 10 ~ 15 sensor stations and 35 sensing relay stations.  We measure s
 now depth\, temperature\, relative humidity\, solar radiation\, soil moist
 ure and temperature\, and matric suction.  Real-time data can be seen at g
 laser.berkeley.edu/wsn.  This real-time data will be used by the Sacrament
 o Municipal Utility District and the Placer County Water Agency to optimiz
 e their hydro-electric operations.\nI will present the background of wirel
 ess sensor networks\, our unique hardware\, new machine learning methods t
 o pick representative sites and locate sensors\, and representative data.\
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LOCATION: Cambridge University Engineering Department\, Lecture Room 6
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