6 October 2004
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Visualization Center has produced a time-synchronized video from images taken from various cameras on the High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) during the October 2003 wildfires in San Diego. The accompanying narration by Ron Serabia (retd. CDF fire captain) describes how the fires spread and the aerial attack on the Cedar fire.

The movie is available as a free download on the SIO VizCenter website here. You can request a DVD of the movie by sending email to Atul Nayak (anayak@ucsd.edu). The DVD has extra features such as a movie of vegetation growth after the fires taken by the HPWREN station at La Cima.

50 of these DVDs were distributed to attendees at the HPWREN Annual Users Group meeting. The San Diego Natural History Museum and Natural Disasters professors at SIO and San Diego State University have also been provided with copies of the DVD. Evan Morikawa (junior, High Tech High School, Point Loma) created this movie as part of a summer internship at the SIO VizCenter. He was assisted by Atul Nayak, Frank Vernon, Jennifer Matthews (IGPP), Hans-Werner Braun (SDSC) and Ron Serabia.

21 September 2004
The ROADNet team helped SDSC’s Knowledge and Information Discovery Lab (SKIDL) prototype their latest Web Services for Sensor Networks, as well as integrate them into the Antelope real-time monitoring system. Several web services were built and demonstrated at the "Environmental Sensor Networks for Research and Education Workshop" held at Scripps Institute of Oceanography on 20 and 21 September, 2004. These web services were designed to serve as building blocks for intelligent workflows involving sensor networks. Both preliminary analysis and control web services were demonstrated. This effort was motivated by the TeraBridge project, an NSF-funded ITR collaborative research project that focuses on sensor-based monitoring of the structural health of bridges and civil infrastructure. For the demo, live structural sensor data were streamed from an instrumented composite deck on a surface street at the UCSD campus, through the Antelope system, and acted upon by the web services demonstrated.