NCALM - NSF supported Center for Airborne Laser Mapping

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has created a research center to support the use of airborne laser mapping technology in the scientific community. The NSF supported Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) is operated jointly by the Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, College of Engineering , University of Florida (UF) and the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California-Berkeley (UCB). NCALM uses the Airborne Laser Swath Mapping (ALSM) system jointly owned by UF and Florida International University (FIU), based at the UF Geosensing Engineering and Mapping (GEM) Research Center . The state-of-the-art laser surveying instrumentation and GPS systems, which are installed in a Cessna 337 Skymaster twin-engine aircraft, collects data in areas selected through the competitive NSF grant review process. The ALSM observations is analyzed both at UF and UCB, and made available to the PI through an archiving and distribution center at UCB - building upon the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory (BSL) Northern California Earthquake Data Center system. Both the UF and UCB groups contribute to software development that increase the processing speed and data accuracy. NSF supported researchers must contact UF during proposal preparation to obtain guidance on cost estimates, scheduling and related issues. Once funded, PIs and their students will be able to participate in all phases of the work.

L'indirizzo del collegamento è: http://www.ncalm.ufl.edu/