Grant Number: 105272 Description: Standard Grant Associated Project: Award Date: 2001-07-06 Award Period: 2001-06-01 to 2002-05-31 Amount: $ 90000.00 Primary Investigator: Edward Riseman Researchers Edward Riseman Allen Hanson Howard Schultz Technology: Government Domain:

Primary Institution:
U of Massachusetts Amherst

Project Home Page:
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/projects/Forestry/index.html

Abstract:
EIA-0105272 Edward Riseman University of Massachusetts SGER: Digital Aerial Video Mosaics for Ecosystem Carbon Cycle Modeling This grant will support preliminary explorations for applying digital video aerial image analysis to long-term issues of global warming, in particular carbon cycle modeling, in the government arena. Many government agencies are already using GIS heavily, but in a less dynamic way, relying on single images in time, without fine-grain time references. This project will explore government uses of real-time imaging, at resolutions beyond what can be achieved with commercial satellite images, allowing the digital film to be geo-referenced, integrated with data streams from other sensors, and viewed in 3D through polarized glasses.