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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

NSF PFI-AIR

• 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

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