The Ecogrid is a grid-based ecological and biological surveillance system that uses sensors and video cameras to monitor Taiwan's coral reef ecosystem and wildlife behavior. Based on grid technologies, the Ecogrid can be regarded as an open-layered pipeline: the sensors collect raw images and transmit information over IP; grid middleware is used for distributed computing and data storage; and, then the data is analyzed, synthesized and archived for scientific discovery.
At iGrid, images from high-definition underwater monitoring cameras in the coral reef reserve of Kenting, Taiwan, and from an innovative omni-directional camera for telepresence from Osaka, are streamed to San Diego, demonstrating the technologies that have been developed for real-time data streaming. Also shown is stereo image streaming, which is currently being studied as a way to do machine learning.
URL:
www.canarie.ca/canet4/uclp/igrid2005/demo.html
http://ecogrid.nchc.org.tw/igrid2005/demo.html
Contact:
Sun-In Lin and Fang-Pang Lin, National Center for High Performance Computing (NCHC), Taiwan, lsi @ nchc.org.tw, fplin @ nchc.org.tw
Collaborators:
NCHC, Taiwan:
Eugene Yeh, Fay Sheu, Jing-Jou Yen, Fang-Pang Lin, Sun-In Lin, Shi-Wei Lo, Te-Lung Liu, Jiunn-Jye Chen, Hsiu-Mei Chou, Po-Wen Chen, Yao-Tsung Wang, Kuen-Yu Huang
National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium (NMMBA), Taiwan:
Tung-Yung Fan, Yung-Hui Chen
Academia Sinica, Taiwan:
Rong-Quen Jan, Kwang-Tsao Shao
San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA:
Arun Swaran Jagatheesan, Arcot Rajasekar
Calit2, University of California San Diego, USA:
Peter Arzberger
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan:
Kazutoshi Fujikawa
Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, Japan:
Shinji Shimojo
CANARIE, Canada:
Hervé Guy
Artificial Intelligence Applications Group, Edinburgh University, UK:
Jessica Chen-Burger, David Robertson
Note:
This application is part of the iGrid demo "World's First Demonstration of X GRID Application Switching using User Controlled LightPaths."
