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July 2012-June 2014
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PI: Naphtali Rishe
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Co-PI: Kalai Mathee, FIU College of Medicine
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Senior Investigators: Iyengar, Marty, Barreto, Chen,
Clarke, He, Khizroev, Li, Lisetti, Liu, Narasimhan, Zhao
$800,000 from NSF, to be matched $800,000 from
industry, Florida Research Consortium, and Enterprise
Development Corporation
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Builds and sustains a culture of innovation
Joins academic research & education with entrepreneurship
Facilitates access to industry knowledge, interests,
experience and connections
Leverages core research initiatives and expertise
Designs and develops innovative solutions
Helps pipeline cutting-edge technologies to
commercialization
Provides R&D resources for commercial innovation
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Ecosystem for development and transfer of technology:
– Technologists
– Innovators
– Industrialists
– Entrepreneurs
– Start-up Pioneers
– Faculty
– Students
Provides resources, mentors, industry advisors
First Industrial Investor:
ALTA Systems
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Invested $300K in the Ecosystem in October 2012
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Stakeholders, including emergency managers needing immediate
very high-resolution imagery, pre and post disasters, will access
ultra-high-resolution aerial imagery, mashed-up with thousands of
other TerraFly datasets.
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ALTA is an Autonomous Lighter Than Air imaging/sensing platform,
powered by natural forces and information instead of machines. The
system operates below cloud ceilings, transmitting tree-top, oblique,
geo-referenced images at low angles, from low altitudes, and at low
cost, making massive balloon deployment feasible.
TerraFly and ALTA
NSF PFI-AIR
NSF PFI-AIR
For more information, please contact:
Naphtali David Rishe, Ph.D.
Director, NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center at FIU and FAU
M. Maidique Campus, 11200 SW 8th St, ECS-243, Miami, FL 33199
(305)348-1706 http://cake.fiu.edu