SENSORS: Placement and Operation of an Environmental Sensor Network to Facilitate Decision Making Regarding Drinking Water Quality and Security

0329549VanBriesen该项目将大型环境数据库中的知识发现与原位生物和化学传感器网络相结合，以彻底改变饮用水质量和安全决策。水质和安全数据提供了一个引人注目的应用程序，具有大型，真实的数据集，数据挖掘和决策工具将被设计和测试。它建议产生一个分布式和操作协议的位置和利用现场环境传感器相结合（1）新的时空数据挖掘算法，（2）新的方法来模拟水质和安全动态，和（3）一个复杂的决策分析框架。该项目将有利于环境决策（提供尖端的数据库和数据挖掘技术，以加强环境科学和政策决策），环境传感器开发（提供敏感性和特异性需求的关键反馈），以及信息管理（提供大型，真实的数据集和真实的查询以及与时空模式和估算信息相关的多种研究挑战）。此外，该项目代表了这些研究领域的应用，以确保安全和有保障的饮用水，以美国人口的关键当前问题。

0329549VanBriesenThis project couples knowledge discovery in large environmental databases with in situ biological and chemical sensor networks to revolutionize drinking water quality and security decision making. Water quality and security data provide a compelling application, with large, real datasets, where data mining and decision-making tools will be designed and tested. It is proposed to produce a distribution and operation protocol for the placement and utilization of in situ environmental sensors by combining (1) new algorithms for spatial-temporal data mining, (2) new methods to model water quality and security dynamics, and (3) a sophisticated decision-analysis framework. This project will be beneficial to Environmental Decision Making (providing cutting-edge database and data-mining technology to enhance environmental science and policy decision making), to Environmental Sensor Development (providing critical feedback on sensitivity and specificity needs), and to Information Management (providing large, real datasets and real queries as well as multiple research challenges related to spatio-temporal patterns and imputed information). Further, the project represents application of these research areas to the critical current issue of ensuring safe and secure drinking water to the population of the United States.