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NGA Academic Research Areas• Geospatial Science

– Data Exchange and Interoperability; Multi-dimensional Representation; Uncertainty; Conflation; Spatio-Temporal Analysis; Topological Reasoning; Integrated Source Management; Hydrography; Automated Feature Extraction: Delineation, Attribution; Automated Target Recognition: Detection, Categorization, Identification; Change Detection: Feature-level, Broad-Area

• Knowledge Discovery and Dissemination – Knowledge-based/Expert Systems; Multi-media Databases; Virtual Experts;

Intelligent Agents; Web-centric Architectures; Semantic Web; Advanced Interaction and Display Modalities; Universal Access Tools; Multi-dimensional Visualization; Augmented/Virtual Reality

• Sensor Data, Image Understanding and Exploitation– Sensor Phenomenology; Signal Processing; Videogrammetry;

Biologic/Neuroscience Image Understanding; Mathematical Analysis

• Geodesy and Geophysics– Gravity Sensors; Signal Processing; Underground Facility

Detection/Characterization; Global Gravity Field Representation; Enhanced GPS Positioning; Unified Three-Dimensional Geodetic Theory


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NGA University Research Initiatives (NURI)• Goal: support cutting-edge, basic research by the

best investigators across the US academic community

• Topics are selected to provide the scientific basis for advanced and applied research in NGA core disciplines

• Competitively awarded … first awards in 1997 …48 total awards through 2004 … six to eight awards per year for new projects…25 active

• Three-year research grants funded at about $450,000

• Two option years for research transition


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Historical Black College and University –Minority Institution Research Initiatives (HBCU-MI)• Goal: support cutting-edge, basic research by the

best investigators at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Minority Institutions across the US academic community

• Topics are selected to provide the scientific basis for advanced and applied research in NGA core disciplines

• Competitively awarded … first award in 1998 … 17 awards through 2004 … typically three awards per year …6 active

• Two year research grants funded at about $130,000• One option year for research transition


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Service Academy Research Grants• Goal: conduct basic research in the Geospatial Sciences

and enhance Geospatial Science education at the US Service Academies (Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard)

• Program directly impacts the geospatial intelligence knowledge and awareness of 13,000 future officers in the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security

• Long standing program started by the Defense Mapping Agency and continued by NGA:– US Military Academy (West Point) since ~1980– US Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs) since ~1990– US Naval Academy (Annapolis) since 2002– US Coast Guard Academy (New London) starting 2004

• Grants range from $20,000 to $65,000 per year


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DCI Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships• Goals

– Provide the Intelligence Community (IC) access to advanced research in science and technology

– Identify new sources of research applicable to the IC’s mission– Provide a pool of researchers to support future IC needs– Develop long-term relationships with researchers as they move

into career positions• Program

– NGA serves as Executive Agent for entire Intelligence Community– Funding: $240,000 for two years with an optional 3rd year– Annual Colloquium brings together the Fellows and the IC

Research Community– 59 Proposals received for 22 research areas (in FY03)– 1 NGA Fellow selected in 2002 and two NGA Fellows selected in

2003– Program growth anticipated

• Details: www.dcipostdoc.org


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Puerto Rico -Mayaguez

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George Mason (4)Bowie StateUS Naval Academy

US Military AcademyPenn State (2)

Maine (7)

Hawaii (1/1/1)

Ohio State (7/1)

Oklahoma

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Southern California -Berkeley

California -Riverside (2)

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NGA Vector Study Program Synergy• NGA Vector Study Program

– Long-term, full-time education programs in Geospatial Intelligence-related disciplines studying under well-known professors at the top colleges and universities in the US…many of the same investigators and institutions receiving NGA Academic Program grants

– Individual identifies and proposes institution and program• Goals:

– Ensure that candidates for the Vector Study Program are aware ofon-going, NGA-sponsored research at the institutions they are considering

– NGA personnel in the Vector Study Program may be able to leverage the NARP projects into their course of study and individual research plans

– NARP researchers gain on-site access to NGA personnel and their perspectives on the research

• Win-Win Situation for NGA, its employees and the Academic Research Program


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NARP Presentations and Research Sessions• American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, 13 – 17 December 2004

– NARP-related papers: NARP Overview and research presentations• American Society of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, Baltimore, 7-11

March 2005– NARP Display & Three NARP Sessions: NARP Overview and research presentations

from Ohio State, US Naval Academy, Southern, Texas A&M - Kingsville, Georgia, Purdue, George Mason, Central Washington

• Auto Carto 2005 (CaGIS), Las Vegas, 21-23 March 2005– NARP Display and/or Overview presentation (TBD)

• SPIE – Defense & Security Symposium, Orlando, 28 March - 1 April 2005– NARP-related papers: NARP Overview and research presentations (TBD)

• Association of American Geographers (AAG), Denver, 5-9 April 2005– Two NARP Sessions: NARP Overview and research presentations (TBD)

• GeoSpatial World, San Francisco, 26-28 March 2005– NARP Overview (TBD)

• ESRI Education and Users Conference, San Diego, 23-29 July 2005– NARP Overview (TBD)

• 2005 NARP Symposium, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, 21-23 September 2005

– NARP Overview and presentations of all active NARP projects• Pecora 2005, Sioux Falls, 24-27 October 2005

– NARP Display (TBD)• GEOINT 2005, 31 October-2 November 2005

– NARP Display and/or Overview Presentation (TBD)


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FY04 NURI Grants Awarded• On Effectively Handling Large Volumes of Geospatial Intelligence Information:

A Formal Distributed Real-Time Processing Approach– PI: Dr. Eugene Santos Jr., Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

University of Connecticut– Description: Design and develop a large-scale distributed real-time solution based

on anytime intelligent foraging, gathering, and matching (I-FGM) on massive and dynamic geospatial information spaces. Given finite computational resources, I-FGM will proceed to explore the geospatial information space and, over time, continuously identify and update promising candidate nugget, thus, good candidates will be available at anytime on request.

• Choreographed Intelligent Web Services for Automated Geospatial Knowledge Discovery

– PI: Dr. Liping Di, Laboratory for Advanced Information Technology and Standards (LAITS), George Mason University

– Description: Develop an interoperable system framework on which choreographed intelligent web services for geospatial knowledge discovery as well as the dissemination of personalized, on-demand geospatial data, information and knowledge can be built. Answer “what if” questions by automatically and intelligently chaining individual service modules to form a complex geospatial model, matching the input data with the model, and executing the model to deliver the answer.


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FY04 NURI Grants Awarded• Multisources Data Fusion, A Mathematical and Computational Approach

– PI: Dr. Yaron A. Felus, Department of Surveying Engineering, Ferris State University

– Description: Multisource data fusion is a key issue in spatial information systems. It pertains to strategies and methods for integrating data from different (and possible diverse) sensors in order to make inference about a physical event, activity or situation. Specifically, it is imperative that the results from the process maintain the highest accuracy and resolution existing within the original data.

• Seamless Integration of Geospatial Data from Water to Land– PI: Dr. Ron Li, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic

Science, Ohio State University– Description: Goals of this research project are: a) to develop a strategy and a

system for seamless transformation of vertical and horizontal datums used in navigation, bathymetry, coastal management, and topographic mapping, b) to develop a spatio-temporal modeling system that produces shorelines with differentwater levels from Coastal Terrain Models (CTM: bathymetry + topography) and Water Surface Models (WSM), c) to develop a hydrological modeling system that produces WSM needed for shoreline generation and datum conversion, and d) to validate the methodology using long term observations of shorelines, water gauge stations, buoys, and satellite altimetry data.


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FY04 NURI Grants Awarded• Automated Geospatial-Intelligence Image Analysis: A Geometric Framework

– PI: Dr. Guillermo Sapiro, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota

– Description: Develop a coherent program in geospatial image analysis, with geometry and geometric partial differential equations the underlying theories that unify the whole approach. Four particular areas are addressed, and they cover from image acquisition to image representation and compression all the way to object detection, tracking, and recognition, providing a comprehensive investigation into geometric image processing.

• Content-Based Information Mining and Visualization for Exploitation of Multi-Modal Databases

– PI: Dr. Chi-Ren Shyu, Computer Science Department, University of Missouri –Columbia

– Description: Leverage multi-disciplinary research experience in high-resolution earth image feature extraction, content-based image retrieval, semantic modeling and knowledge exchange, and visualization. Searching for relevant knowledge across heterogeneous imagery intelligence databases has always required an extensive knowledge of the semantic meaning of images, a keen eye for its visual patterns, efficient strategies for collecting and analyzing data, and a deep understanding of related tradecrafts.


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FY04 NURI Grants Awarded• An Investigation of Perceptual Skills and Cognitive Strategies Using

Functional Brain Imaging– PI: Dr. Thomas Zeffiro, Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown

University– Description: Successful geospatial intelligence analysts require important

perceptual and cognitive skills. Whether such skills can be developed in trainees, or whether candidates should be selected on the basis of natural abilities, is not yet clear. The objective of this research is to determine whether a trainee’s performance level on a perceptual skills task can be improved sufficiently by means of specialized training software to rival that of those naturally-talented individuals.

• Seamless and Reliable Personal Navigator– PI: Dr. Dorota Brzezinska, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and

Geodetic Science, Ohio State University– Description: Develop a prototype of a seamless and dependable personal

navigator to support navigation and tracking of ground military and rescue personnel. This research aims at forming the theoretical foundations for such systems by developing the algorithmic concept of a basic GPS-based, Micro-elector-mechanical inertial measurement unit (MEMS IMU)-augmented personal navigator system with an open-ended architecture, which would be able to incorporate additional navigation and imaging sensor data.


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FY04 HBCU-MI Grants Awarded• Discovery and Visualization of Geospatial Intelligence for Homeland Security

Using Computer Automated Virtual Environment (CAVE)– PI: Dr. Michael A. Stubblefield, Centers of Excellence, Southern University and

A&M College– Description: The Computer Automated Virtual Environment (CAVE), enables

multiple persons to visually interact in 3D real time with data. This research will: (1) use CAVE to visualize the Geospatial-Intelligence of critical national infrastructure for Homeland Security; (2) use CAVE to explore the knowledge of analysts in discovering Geospatial-Intelligence, modeling and applying the analyst’s knowledge to Automated Geospatial-Intelligence Analysis; and (3) use CAVE to explore the effective analyst training approach.

• Passive Polarization-Based Classification Study– PI: Dr. David G. Voelz, Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

New Mexico State University– Description: Conduct study dealing with passive object detection and classification

in single frames of polarimetric imagery and an optional secondary study looking at the problem of moving object detection and tracking using polarimetric video. Investigate and develop an algorithm that uses single frame polarimetric imagery to detect and classify spatial objects of interest. In addition, a detailed analysis will be performed to quantify the utility of the different polarimetric bands in this process.


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NGA Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Progress• Efficient Materials Mapping with Hyperspectral Data (02)

– Dr. Paul Lucey (PI), Dr. Mike Winter (Fellow), University of Hawaii – Manoa• Individual Differences in Cognitive Performance Related to Intelligence

Analysis (02)– Dr. Stephen M. Kosslyn (PI), Dr. Chris Chabris (Fellow), Harvard University

• Data Analysis from Passive Hyperspectral and LIDAR Sensors (03)– Dr. John Schott (PI), Dr. Dave Messinger (Fellow), Rochester Institute of

Technology• Unconstrained Goal-based Visual Scene Analysis: Neural Model

Development and Psychophysical Testing (03)– Dr. Ennio Mingolla (PI), Dr. Siegfried Martens (Fellow), Boston University

• Development of Psychophysical Evaluation of the Application of Color Appearance Models to the Analysis of Multi-Sensor Visual Data (03)

– Dr. Mark Fairchild and Dr. Ethan Montag (co-PIs), Dr. Garrett Johnson (Fellow), Rochester Institute of Technology

• Structures and Dynamics of Complex Networks (03)– Dr. Garrett Kenyon (PI) & Dr. Henry Abarbanel (co-PI, UCSD), Dr. Mark Flynn

(Fellow), Los Alamos National Laboratory


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NARP Contact Information

• Annual Solicitations for Research Proposals are announced through Broad Agency Announcements (BAA) posted under “Business Opportunities” on the NGA web site: www.nga.mil

• NURI, HBCU-MI and DCI Post Doc BAAs are normally announced between December and January each year.

• For more information, check our web site: www.nga.mil/narp, or contact:

Dr. Scott A. Loomer, (703) 735-3062, [email protected], Mail Stop DN-1112310 Sunrise Valley DriveReston, Virginia 20191

• Additional information about the DCI Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships can be found at: www.dcipostdoc.org

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Academic Research Transition Program• Goals:

– Provide maximum exposure for the Academic Research projects– Transition the Academic Research projects, where appropriate,

into applied research and technology programs

• Mechanisms:– Annual NGA Academic Research Program Symposium to

showcase research to NGA, DoD and IC agencies and NGA commercial partners

– Annual NGA-sponsored sessions at the major professional organization conferences: AAG, ASPRS, SPIE, IEEE, AGU

– Partnering program between Academic Research projects and the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Program


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Professional Society Interactions• Professional Society Conventions are the crossroads of the

academic research world…most investigators attend at least one such meeting each year

• These meetings are ideal fora in which to showcase the NGA Academic Research Program and supported projects

• Case in point: at the Association of American Geographers Convention in 2004, NGA sponsored a session on the NGA Academic Research Program which included a program overview and presentations by four NARP researchers

• The Societies are also willing to provide coverage of the NARP and research BAAs in their bulletins and through targeted email distributions

• NURI, HBCU-MI and Service Academy researchers will be encouraged to present their work in NGA-sponsored sessions at each of the major professional society conventions


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NGA Academic Research – SBIR Partnership Program

• NURI/HBCU-MI projects have option years for transitioning research

• SBIR program has Phase 1 preliminary research (“proof of concept”) phase

• Join the two programs at the hip…

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Coordination/Leverage Efforts • DCI Post Doc Fellowship Program• Coordination and Formal Agreements with USGS

– USGS/FGDC investment in NURI Geospatial Information Sciences

• Coordination with DARPA/DSO – Interest in Computational Mathematics topics in

Geodesy and Geospatial Data/Information (DARPA Geo* program)

• NSF Collaboration– Fill NGA niche areas which are not covered by

traditional NSF research areas– NARP is more applied and directed at our specific

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Academic Program Success• Output metrics

– Degrees granted– Refereed publications, conference presentations – Demonstrations within NGA and other DoD/IC organizations– Extensions of research to years 4 or 5

• Communication and possible transition of results– Transition R&D outcomes to incubators/industry– Transition advanced developments to acquisition or operational

elements• Recruitment

– From universities to NGA or other DoD & IC organizations– From universities to NGA industry partners– Establish relationships with researchers through Post Doc

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NURI Grants Awarded• Geospatial Data Representation (formerly Geospatial Science)

– University of Maine: “Similarity Assessments Based on Spatial Relationships and Attributes”(97-02)

– University of California - Santa Barbara: “Uncertainty in Geospatial Information Representation, Analysis and Decision Support” (97-01)

– University of Oklahoma: “Development of GIS to Support Spatio-Temporal Queries, Analysis and Models in Hydrology” (97-02)

– University of West Florida (97-00)– Syracuse University (97-00)– University of Maine: “A Spatio-Temporal Model for Integrated Information Management” (98-01)– Pennsylvania State University: “Enabling Collaboration and Improving Understanding and

Decision Making: The Management of Semantics for Geospatial Info” (00-03)– University of Southern Mississippi: “Intelligent Database Agents for Geospatial Knowledge

Integration and Management” (00-05)– University of Maine: “Global Survey and Analysis of National Spatial Data Infrastructure

Activities” (00-04)– University of Maine: “Spatio-Temporal Panning and Zooming” (00-03)– University of Georgia: “Optimization of Coastal Zone Databases Using Multimodal Data” (01-

04)– University of Maine: “A Framework for Efficient Spatio Temporal Analysis of Geospatial Data

Using Distributed Motion Imagery” (02-05)– University of West Florida: “Universal Feature Classification Taxonomy for Future MC&G

Systems” (03-06) – Ohio State: “Seamless Integration of Geospatial Data from Water to Land” (04-07)


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NURI Grants Awarded• Automated Data Extraction

– Georgia Institute of Technology – Savannah: “Automated Data Extraction with SOLDIER Image Mining” (03-06)

– University of Maine: “Automated Image-Based Linear Feature Extraction and Updating” (03-06)

• Geodesy and Geophysics (formerly Physical Science)– Ohio State University: “New Measurement Concepts for Determining the Earth’s Gravity Vector

Field” (98-03)– University of Colorado: “Future Advances in Global Gravity Field Modeling” (98-01)– University of Hawaii: “Efficient Materials Mapping with HSI Data” (00-03)– University of Arizona: “Combined Spatial and Spectral Processing of Multisource Data to

Generate High-Resolution Thematic Maps” (01-04)– University of Maryland – Baltimore County: “Current and Future Satellite Mission Data Analysis

for Global Gravity Field Modeling and Reference Frame Implementation” (01-04)– University of Texas – Austin: “Robust Modeling and Fusion of INSAR and LIDAR Data for Bare

Earth Topography” (01-04)– Rochester Institute of Technology: “Hyperspectral Algorithm Development and Prototype

Exploitation Tool Demonstration Project” (02-05)– Ohio State University: “Methods and Applications in Gravity Gradiometry” (02-05)– Ohio State University: “Study on the Impact of Accurate Gravity Compensation on GPS/INS-

based Direct Sensor Orientation and Targeting” (03-06)– Ferris State: “Multi-Sources Data Fusion, a Mathematical and Computational Approach” (04-07)– Ohio State University: “Seamless and Reliable Personal Navigator” (04-07)


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NURI Grants Awarded• Information Technology (formerly Computer Science)

– University of Texas at Arlington (97-00)– George Mason University: “Agent-based Collaborative Image and Geospatial Computing” (00-

03)– State University of New York at Buffalo: “Immersive Information Spaces for Data Access and

Dissemination” (00-03)– Central Washington University: “Methodology and Tools for Creating Virtual Experts” (02-05)– University of Maine: “Toward the Semantic Geospatial Web” (02-05)– George Mason University: “Knowledge Sifter: Ontology-Based Search over Corporate and

Open Sources using Agent-Based Knowledge Services” (03-06)– University of Connecticut: “On Effectively Handling Large Volumes of Geospatial Intelligence

Information: A Formal Distributed Real-Time Processing Approach” (04-07)– George Mason University: “Choreographed Intelligent Web Services for Automated Geospatial

Knowledge Discovery” (04-07)– University of Missouri: “Content-Based Information Mining and Visualization of Multi-Modal

Databases” (04-07)

• Human-Computer Interface (formerly Image Science)– George Mason University: “Pulse Image Processing” (98-01)– Boston University: “Biologically-Inspired Approaches to AFE and ATR” (01-04)– Florida State University: “Computational Models and Algorithms for Automated Terrain and

Target Recognition” (01-04)– Purdue University: “Photogrammetric Principle for Lenticular Auto-Stereoscopic Display” (02-

05)– University of Southern California: “Fusion and Comprehension of Multi-Sensor Data for

Intelligence Information Exploitation and Dissemination” (03-06)


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NURI Grants Awarded• Sensor Data, Image Understanding and Exploitation (formerly Mathematics)

– Ohio State University: “Application of Spherical Wavelets to the Solution of the Terrestrial Gravity Field Model” (00-03)

– Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: “Innovation for Elevation Data Storage and Retrieval by Wavelet Compression of Tiled Elevation Data” (00-03)

– Ohio State University: “Mathematical Principles for Spatial Data Management” (01-04)– Central Washington University: “Mathematical Frameworks Supporting Conflation Problems”

(02-05)– University of Alaska – Fairbanks: “DEM Control in Arctic Alaska with ICESat Laser Altimetry”

(03-05)– University of Minnesota: “Automated Geospatial-Intelligence Image Analysis: A Geometric

Framework” (04-07)– Georgetown University: “An Investigation of Perceptual Skills and Cognitive Strategies Using

Functional Brain Imaging” (04-07)


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HBCU/MI Grants Awarded• Geospatial Data Representation (formerly Geospatial Science)

– Bowie State (98-00)– University of California at Riverside: “Access Methods for Spatio-Temporal Data” (99-01)– University of California at Riverside: “Knowledge Discovery in Spatiotemporal Applications” (00-

02)– University of Texas at El Paso: “Hyperspectral Background Classification and Target Detection”

(02-04)

• Automated Data Extraction– University of Texas - Pan American: “Maximum Resolution Range-Doppler Radar Imagery” (03-

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HBCU/MI Grants Awarded• Geodesy and Geophysics (formerly Physical Science)

– University of Texas at El Paso (99-01)– University of Hawaii: “Target Adjacency Effects in Thermal Infrared Spectral Remote Sensing

Measurements” (00-02)– New Mexico State: “Electro-Optical Polarization-Sensitive Imaging: Phenomenology Studies”

(02-04)– Texas A&M at Kingsville: “Real-Time Target Detection and Classification for

Multispectral/Hyperspectral Imagery” (02-03)– North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University: “Techniques for High Precision GPS

Point Positioning using Inertial Navigation Aids (GPS-PINA)” (03-05)

• Human-Computer Interface (formerly Image Science)– Florida A&M: “SVD-based Analysis of Images, Video and Multi-dimensional Data” (00-02)– University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez: “Integration of Hyperspectral Pattern Recognition and

Computer Vision Shape Detection for Subsurface Object Identification” (01-03)– North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University: “Web-based Visualization and

Collaboration Tool for 3D/4D Imagery and Geospatial Information” (01-03)


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HBCU/MI Grants Awarded• Sensor Data, Image Understanding and Exploitation (formerly Mathematics)

– Clark Atlanta University: “Wavelet Analysis for Hyperspectral Imagery” (01-03)– New Mexico State: “Passive Polarization-Base Classification Study” (04-06)

• Information Technology (formerly Computer Science)– Southern University and A&M College: “MetaXCube: Generating Metadata about Vector

Images and Indexing XML Document Collections for High-Speed Multimedia Retrieval” (03-05)– Southern University and A&M College: “Discovery and Visualization of Geospatial Intelligence

for Homeland Security Using Computer Automated Virtual Environment (CAVE)” (04-06)


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