June 1998 Florida Fires
In August 1996, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and
Florida International University (FIU) formally
agreed to establish a Regional Applications Center (RAC) at FIU. This
collaborative effort will expand the practical
applications of NASA satellite sensor readings, combined with other physical
or logical data to the benefit of the
Southeast US region. The program also will strengthen an existing project
between NASA GSFC and
FIU's High Performance Database Research Center (HPDRC) for the purpose
of developing and implementing an advanced new
database technology, called a semantic database.
The mission of the RAC at FIU is to collaborate with NASA GSFC in serving
public and business needs for remote sensing data obtained by NASA, primarily
from orbiting satellites, and in this way help NASA fulfill their
strategic and educational goals. It is anticipated that
our RAC will serve as a local agent for disseminating value-added data
and software, as well as techniques and technologies developed both at NASA
and RAC. In addition RAC will serve as as a test-bed for implementing and validating these
technologies and algorithms.
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