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Rapidly translate research into commercially-viable solutions
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NSF PFI-AIR
• July 2012-June 2014
• PI: Naphtali Rishe
• Co-PI: Kalai Mathee, FIU College of Medicine
• 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
NSF PFI-AIR
• 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 Invested $300K in the Ecosystem in
October 2012 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.
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
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
NSF PFI-AIR
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