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GeoDec: Enabling Geospatial Decision Making
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Google TechTalks May 24, 2006 Cyrus Shahabi Cyrus Shahabi is currently an Associate Professor and the Director of the Information Laboratory (InfoLAB) at the Computer Science Department and also a Research Area Director at the NSF's Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California. ABSTRACT The vision of GeoDec is to enable an information-rich and realistic 3-dimensional visualization and/or simulation of a geographical location (e.g., a city), rapidly and accurately. The idea is not just to allow navigation through a 3-D model, but to be able to ask queries and get information about the area seamlessly and effortlessly. Our main focus it to build tools to quickly and cheaply integrate, visualize, and analyze all aspects of a geographic region. The ability to create high-fidelity information-rich models of cities is critical for a wide variety of decision makers. For example, in the United States, GeoDec can be used by city managers, city planners, emergency response planners, and first responders.
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