PFI: Information Products Laboratory for Emergency Response

这一创新伙伴关系项目是罗切斯特理工学院和纽约州立大学布法罗分校之间的第二类(A：B)伙伴关系，罗切斯特理工学院是国家科学基金会创新伙伴关系毕业生(0090569)，纽约州立大学布法罗分校主办了国家科学基金会ERC(9701471)，该项目侧重于灾害管理方面的创新，具体目标是开发基于遥感研究和地理空间分析技术的灾害管理工具。三级灾难管理方法：灾难规划、灾难响应和灾难恢复，通过大学研究人员、技术公司和公共部门响应人员之间的集成知识和技术转移努力进行创新的时机已经成熟。RIT在基础和应用遥感研究方面拥有丰富的经验，与当地应急响应和应急提供商的合作历史，以及在火灾探测和火灾行为方面的特殊专业知识。UB团队成员带来了各种自然和人为灾害的地理空间分析专业知识，包括火灾和洪水。这两所大学都有很强的政策因素。综合小组将应用系统工程方法确定灾害管理中的用户需求，有针对性地研究和开发灾害管理产品，并形成可持续的知识和技术转让基础设施。RIT和UB这两个主要学术机构组成部分将利用其集体经验创建一个实验室和资源--应急信息产品实验室(IPLER)，以扩大灾害管理领域所有类型实体的参与。国际和平研究所将通过建立和维持技术开发商和供应商与在救灾中使用这些技术的人之间的持续对话，促进经济发展。技术的传播将改善美国的防灾和减灾工作，并产生具有社会效益的应对和恢复的创新工具。RIT和UB的学生将积极参与有针对性的研究，并将唯一有资格为灾害管理研究、开发和应对做出贡献。IPLER旨在发展壮大，并将吸收来自学术界、公共部门和私营部门的新成员。IPLER的成果包括潜在的拯救生命的创新，并将广泛传播在项目开始时的合作伙伴是学术机构：罗切斯特理工学院(牵头机构)和纽约州立大学布法罗分校；私营部门组织：DigitalGlobe、ImageCat、Kucera International和Pictomery International；地方、州和联邦政府实体：门罗县应急管理办公室；纽约州科学、技术和创新基金会(NYSTAR)、纽约州国土安全部办公室，以及美国林业局、遥感和应用中心。

This Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project--a Type II (A:B) partnership between the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), an NSF PFI graduate (0090569), and SUNY at Buffalo (UB), which hosted a NSF ERC (9701471)-- is focused on innovation in disaster management, with specific goals of developing disaster management tools based on remote sensing research and geospatial analysis technology. The three-tiered disaster management approach: disaster planning, disaster response, and disaster recovery is ripe for innovation through integrated knowledge and technology transfer efforts among university researchers, technology companies, and public sector responders. RIT brings extensive experience in basic and applied remote sensing research, a history of collaboration with local emergency response and emergency providers, and a special expertise in fire detection and fire behavior to the partnership. UB team members bring expertise in geospatial analysis of a variety of natural and man-made disasters, including fire and floods. Both universities have strong policy components. The integrated team will apply a systems engineering approach to define user needs in disaster management, perform targeted research and development of disaster management products, and form a sustainable infrastructure for knowledge and technology transfer.The two primary academic institutional components, RIT and UB, will leverage their collective experience to create a laboratory and resource, the Information Products Laboratory for Emergency Response (IPLER), to broaden the participation of all types of entities along the spectrum of disaster management. The IPLER will facilitate economic development by establishing and maintaining a continuous dialogue between the developers and providers of technologies and the people who use them in disaster response. The diffusion of technologies will improve the prevention and mitigation of disasters in the United States and lead to innovative tools for response and recovery with societal benefit. Students at RIT and UB will be actively engaged in the targeted research and will be uniquely qualified to contribute to disaster management research, development, and response. The IPLER is designed to grow and will incorporate new members from the academic, public, and private sectors. The outcomes of the IPLER include potentially life-saving innovations and will be broadly disseminatedPartners at the inception of the project are Academic Institutions: Rochester Institute of Technology (lead institution), and SUNY at Buffalo; Private Sector Organizations: DigitalGlobe, ImageCat, Kucera International, and Pictometry International; Local, State and Federal Government Entities: Monroe County Office of Emergency Management; New York State Foundation for Science, Technology, and Innovation (NYSTAR), New York State Office of Homeland Security, and US Forest Service, Remote Sensing and Applications Center..