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Researcher Works to Improve Geospatial Analytics
Satish Puri poses with stacks of printed maps in the Curtis Laws Wilson Library at Missouri S&T.
Credit: Michael Pierce / Missouri S&T
Researcher Satish Puri is working with petabytes of digital data — primarily geospatial information — to find the best ways to run queries and get useful results as quickly as possible.
Puri, an associate professor of computer science at Missouri S&T, says different types of maps often need to be combined to answer queries, and the map data he works with includes a collection of spatial shapes and location markers. The amount of spatially referenced data now available may be difficult for some to conceptualize, he says.
Puri was awarded a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Program last year, and is expected to receive over $500,000 over five years. Earlier this year, he was also awarded a $230,000 three-year NSF grant. Both projects focus on geospatial analytics.
For the projects, Puri is creating algorithms and using high-performance computing with graphics processing units and smart network interface cards that have advanced processing capabilities and allow searches to be conducted faster.
From Missouri University of Science and Technology
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