This page is the hub for information about activities and research into Ambient Spatial Intelligence (AmSI) at the University of Melbourne and other institutions.
AmSI is all about embedding in our everyday, dynamic environment the capability to respond to geospatial queries about the events that are occurring.
Some of the theoretical questions we are actively engaged in include:
- How can we design efficient algorithms that can help monitor changes in spatial regions, like the emergence of “hot spots” in sea temperature around sensitive coral reefs?
- How can we develop real-time systems for detecting meaningful spatial events in large groups of mobile objects, like the emergence of “traffic jams” in peak hour transportation networks, or “crowds” at a sporting event?
Some of the key applications of this work currently being addressed in collaboration with researchers around the world include:
- Emergency management: Understanding the movements of people and assets and their impacts on critical infrastructure during emergency response (Collaboration with the University of Maine, USA, University of Nottingham, UK, and University of Exeter, UK)
- Conservation contracts: Monitoring the outcomes of conservation activities on private land (collaboration with the Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria)
- River health: Inferring new knowledge about changing river health from the movements of tagged fish in the Murray River (Collaboration with the Arthur Rylah Institute, Victoria)
