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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear Colleagues, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The sudden outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) swept across the world in early 2020, triggered the lockdowns of China, Italy, France, and most states of the U.S. The transmission of the virus accelerated
rapidly with the most confirmed cases in U.S. and New York City became an epicenter of the pandemic at the end of March. In response to this national and global emergency, the U.S. NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center brought together powerful taskforces of international researchers
and implementation strategies to rapidly respond to this crisis, for saving lives and protecting the health of our citizens.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">The project is quickly standing up a spatiotemporal platform and its gateway (<a href="http://covid-19.stcenter.net/">http://covid-19.stcenter.net/</a>) to assist research and development for
national and international community preparedness and responses by: a) quickly integrating resources of computing, analytical tools/workflows and expert knowledge, b) collecting near real-time information through innovative mechanisms, c) sharing the data
using smart discovery and access tools based on spatiotemporal knowledge base, d) building workflow models to integrate spatiotemporal analytical and mining tools to assist identifying case trajectories and spreading trends with interdisciplinary teams, and
e) quickly standing up a platform to support researchers’ computing needs for analytics, modeling, and other relevant research activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">We welcome interested researchers, educators, decision makers with open access in mind to collaborate on the spatiotemporal rapid response including but not limited to the following (Please
fill the relevant forms as linked and we will be in touch):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Phil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Chaowei Phil Yang, Ph.D.,<br>
Director, NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center; <a href="http://www.stcenter.net" target="_blank">
www.stcenter.net</a><br>
Professor, GGS, GMU, <a href="http://ggs.gmu.edu/" target="_blank">http://ggs.gmu.edu/</a><br>
Tel: 703-993-4742 (O)</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Yang, C., Yu, M., Li, Y., Hu, F., Jiang, Y., Liu, Q., Sha, D., Xu, M. and Gu, J., 2019. Big Earth data analytics: a survey. Big Earth Data, 3(2),83-107. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2019.1611175" target="_blank">DOI:
/10.1080/20964471.2019.1611175</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Yang, C., Clarke, K., Shekhar, S. and Tao, C.V., 2019. Big Spatiotemporal Data Analytics: a research and innovation frontier., International Journal of Geographical Information Science, DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2019.1698743" target="_blank">10.1080/13658816.2019.1698743</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Yu, M., Bambacus, M., Cervone, G., Clarke, K., Duffy, D., Huang, Q., Li, J., Li, W., Li, Z., Liu, Q. Resch, B., Yang J., and Yang C., 2020. Spatiotemporal event detection: a review. International Journal of Digital Earth,
Doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2020.1738569">/10.1080/17538947.2020.1738569</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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