James Frew

James Frew is an Associate Professor in the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and a principal investigator in UCSB’s Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS). Trained as a geographer, he has worked in remote sensing, image processing, software architecture, massive distributed data systems, and digital libraries. His current research is focused on geospatial information provenance, discovery, and curation, using remote sensing data products generated by his Environmental Information Laboratory as operational test beds.

Recommended Readings & Links:

• Lineage retrieval for scientific data processing: a survey http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1057977.1057978
• example of an ad-hoc social network I participated in: http://openphi.net/tenacious/
  • covered in today's LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-jimgray30-2008may30,0,7772341.story