HR: 17:45h
AN: ED44A-08    [Abstracts]
TI: Goddard Space Flight Center's Partnership with Florida International University
AU: * Rishe, N D
EM: rishen@cs.fiu.edu
AF: Florida International University High Performance Database Research Center School of Computer Science, 11200 SW 8th ST, ECS 243, Miami, FL 33199 United States
AU: Graham, S C
EM: grahams@cs.fiu.edu
AF: Florida International University High Performance Database Research Center School of Computer Science, 11200 SW 8th ST, ECS 243, Miami, FL 33199 United States
AU: Gutierrez, M E
EM: mgutie01@cs.fiu.edu
AF: Florida International University High Performance Database Research Center School of Computer Science, 11200 SW 8th ST, ECS 243, Miami, FL 33199 United States
AB: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has been collaborating with Florida International University's High Performance Database Research Center (FIU HPDRC) for nearly ten years. Much of this collaboration was funded through a NASA Institutional Research Award (IRA). That award involved research in the Internet dissemination of geospatial data, and in recruiting and training student researchers. FIU's TerraFly web service presently serves more than 10,000 unique users per day by providing an easy-to-use mechanism for exploring geospatial data and imagery. IRA-supported students have received 47 Bachelor's degrees, 20 Master's degrees, and 2 Doctoral degrees at FIU. FIU leveraged IRA funding into over \$19 million in other funding and donations for their research and training activities and has published nearly 150 scientific papers acknowledging the NASA IRA award. GSFC has worked closely with FIU HPDRC in the development of their geospatial data storage and dissemination research. TerraFly presents many NASA datasets such as the nationwide mosaic of LandSat 5, the PRISM precipitation model, the TRMM accumulated rainfall worldwide; as well as USGS aerial photography nationwide at 30cm to 1m resolutions, demographic data, Ikonos satellite imagery, and many more. Our presentation will discuss the lessons learned during the collaboration between GSFC and FIU as well as our current research projects.
UR: http://terrafly.fiu.edu
DE: 0800 EDUCATION
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting