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TI: NCALM: NSF Supported Center for Airborne Laser Mapping
AU: * Shrestha, R L
EM: rshre@ce.ufl.edu
AF: University of Florida, 365 Weil Hall, PO Box 116580, Gainesville, FL 32611 United States
AU: Carter, W E
EM: bcarter@ce.ufl.edu
AF: University of Florida, 365 Weil Hall, PO Box 116580, Gainesville, FL 32611 United States
AU: Dietrich, W E
EM: bill@eps.berkeley.edu
AF: University of California-Berkeley, Department of Earth & Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA 94720 United States
AB: The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a grant to create a research center to support the use of airborne laser mapping technology in the scientific community. The NSF supported Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) will be operated jointly by the Department of Civil \& Coastal Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Florida (UF) and the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California-Berkeley (UCB). NCALM will use the Airborne Laser Swath Mapping (ALSM) system jointly owned by UF and Florida International University (FIU), based at the UF Geosensing Engineering and Mapping (GEM) Research Center. The state-of-the-art laser surveying instrumentation, GPS systems, which are installed in a Cessna 337 Skymaster aircraft, will collect research grade data in areas selected through the competitive NSF grant review process. The ALSM observations will be analyzed both at UF and UCB, and made available to the PI through an archiving and distribution center at UCB-building upon the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory (BSL) Northern California Earthquake Data Center system. The purpose of NCALM is to provide research grade data from ALSM technology to NSF supported research studies in geosciences. The Center will also contribute to software development that will increase the processing speed and data accuracy. This presentation will discuss NCALM operation and the process of submitting proposals to NSF. In addition, it will outline the process to request available NCALM seed project funds to help jump-start small scientific research studies. Funds are also available for travel by academic researchers and students for hands-on knowledge and experience in ALSM technology at UF and UCB.
DE: 1294 Instruments and techniques
DE: 1625 Geomorphology and weathering (1824, 1886)
DE: 1640 Remote sensing
DE: 1800 HYDROLOGY
DE: 1821 Floods
SC: Geodesy [G]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting