N E W: Our group managed to place two papers at this year's 5th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Park City, Utah. The papers will hence appear in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. See [publications] for more information.

This is the website of the distributed spatial computing (DSC) research group hosted at the Department of Geomatics at the University of Melbourne . The Melbourne DSC research group consists of senior, postdoctoral and postgraduate researchers, that bring together expertise in Geographical Information Science, Computer Science as well as Environmental Science and Geography. The DSC research group is internationally well connected and collaborates with a series of partners from academia, government, and industry. This website provides information about the DSC research group for our partners and the public.

About distributed spatial computing. Monitoring dynamic geographic environments is an essential task in many important domains, including management of sensitive natural environments, emergency preparedness and response, and transportation and tracking applications. Advances in decentralized sensor technology offer reliable and cost-effective means to collect the fine-grained spatiotemporal data required for event-detection in dynamic environments. However, effective use of such data requires a new perspective to spatial computing, a perspective that focusses on distributed in-network processing of spatial information.