IUCRC Proposal Planning Grant, Saint Louis University: Center for Accurate Georeferencing of the Environment (CAGE)

IUCRC 提案规划拨款，圣路易斯大学：环境精确地理配准中心 (CAGE)

• 批准号: 2113870
• 负责人: Vasit Sagan
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: Saint Louis University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-06-01 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2113870&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUCRC; Proposal; Planning; Grant; Saint

The global economic impact of Global Positioning System (GPS) use is estimated at ~$1B/day. GPS and resulting geospatial location information (i.e., georeferencing) serves a diverse ecosystem of companies across the spectrum of users including manufacturers, system integrators, service providers, and end users. It is a technology that has exploded in recent decades with the private sector superseding the historic dominance of U.S. federal agencies in geospatial technology development and deployment. However, this proliferation has revealed vulnerabilities due rapidly advancing technology and data analytics for both commercial and government entities. The resulting evolution and fragmentation of geospatial technologies has precipitated a need for strategic investment in foundational elements related to GPS and georeferencing. To address this issue, funding is being provided for The Ohio State University, Purdue University, and Saint Louis University to explore the formation of a three-Site industry-university cooperative research center: The Center for Accurate Georeferencing of the Environment (CAGE). The Center will generate and disseminate new foundational knowledge in three interrelated areas of potential strong interest to prospective Members. These include foundational research on GPS-based and alternative AI-based navigation and mapping technologies to advance geospatial data referencing platforms upon which commercial innovation depends; refine and work with industry to codify and adopt geospatial data standards and best practices for functions such as acquisition of multi-sensor/multi-platform/multi-temporal geospatial data such that diverse members will be able to build interoperable systems; and develop new AI-based methods for the reconstruction and labelling of physical locations/object space from diverse geospatial data will unlock significant potential for geospatial data analytics. Through a Center planning meeting, The Ohio State University, Purdue University, and Saint Louis University faculty and administrators will engage a broad spectrum of public and private entities to identify and discuss collective needs with the goal of creating a viable research roadmap and associated research thrusts in which partners are willing to participate and invest. Topics and potential Center research thrusts will be discussed at the meeting, and those of highest importance to industry will be identified upon which a viable Center can be created. Broader impacts of the work include increased economic productivity and integration of the economic sectors that use or wish to use georeferencing; workforce training where students participate in industry-relevant, basic, pre-competitive research projects proposed by university faculty; the engagement of underrepresented groups via various partnerships with institutional entities focused in recruiting and retraining students from underserved populations; and outreach to the public and K-12. Industry-university cooperative research centers, like the three-Site Center jointly proposed to be focused on georeferencing in the environment and geospatial techniques and applications by The Ohio State University, Purdue University, and Saint Louis University are powerful partnerships between universities; the private sector; government; non-profits; and local communities. These Centers operate as consortia where university faculty and students perform fundamental research that addresses collective industry and community needs and where projects are funded by membership fees and other financial contributions from Center members. In this construct, the intellectual power; infrastructure; and student talent of universities is focused on real world problems of critical interest of a segment of the economy in need of innovation to overcome conceptual and technological hurdles that individual entities are unable to overcome themselves. The planning meeting proposed will bring together interested parties to hear proto-Center leadership describe the Center’s value proposition and potential return-on-investment of those entities wishing to become members of the Center. Those at the planning meeting will also help the Center create a research road map and research thrusts that best address the most pressing needs of the collective membership in the Center.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

全球定位系统(GPS)的使用对全球经济的影响估计为每天约10亿美元。GPS和由此产生的地理空间位置信息(即地理参考)服务于不同用户范围的公司生态系统，包括制造商、系统集成商、服务提供商和最终用户。这是一项近几十年来爆炸性的技术，私营部门取代了美国联邦机构在地理空间技术开发和部署方面的历史主导地位。然而，由于商业和政府实体的快速进步的技术和数据分析，这种激增暴露了漏洞。由此导致的地理空间技术的演变和支离破碎，促使需要对与全球定位系统和地理参考有关的基本要素进行战略投资。为了解决这一问题，正在向俄亥俄州立大学、普渡大学和圣路易斯大学提供资金，以探索建立一个由三个地点组成的产学合作研究中心：环境精确地理参考中心(CAGE)。该中心将在潜在成员可能感兴趣的三个相互关联的领域产生和传播新的基础知识。这些活动包括：对基于全球定位系统的导航和绘图技术以及其他基于人工智能的导航和绘图技术进行基础研究，以推进商业创新所依赖的地理空间数据参照平台；完善并与业界合作，编纂和采用地理空间数据标准和最佳做法，以实现诸如获取多传感器/多平台/多时相地理空间数据等职能，从而使不同的成员能够建立可互操作的系统；开发新的基于人工智能的方法，用于从不同的地理空间数据重建和标记物理位置/物体空间，从而释放地理空间数据分析的巨大潜力。通过中心规划会议，俄亥俄州立大学、普渡大学和圣路易斯大学的教职员工和管理人员将动员广泛的公共和私人实体来确定和讨论集体需求，目标是创建一个可行的研究路线图和相关的研究推动力，让合作伙伴愿意参与和投资。会议将讨论主题和潜在的中心研究推动力，并将确定对行业最重要的主题和潜在研究推动力，在这些主题和潜在研究推动力的基础上可以创建一个可行的中心。这项工作的更广泛影响包括：提高经济生产力和利用或希望使用地理参考的经济部门的一体化；劳动力培训，使学生参与大学教员提出的与行业相关的基本竞争前研究项目；通过与侧重于从服务不足的人口中招聘和再培训学生的机构实体建立各种伙伴关系，让代表不足的群体参与；以及面向公众和K-12。产学合作研究中心，如俄亥俄州立大学、普渡大学和圣路易斯大学联合提出的专注于环境地理参考和地理空间技术和应用的三站点中心，是大学、私营部门、政府、非营利组织和当地社区之间强有力的合作伙伴关系。这些中心以联合体的形式运作，大学教职员工和学生进行基础研究，以满足集体行业和社区的需求，项目的资金来自中心成员的会员费和其他财政贡献。在这一结构中，大学的智力、基础设施和学生人才侧重于与经济部分的关键利益相关的现实世界问题，需要创新来克服个别实体本身无法克服的概念和技术障碍。拟议的规划会议将把感兴趣的各方聚集在一起，听取Proto-Center领导层描述该中心的价值主张和希望成为该中心成员的实体的潜在投资回报。那些参加规划会议的人还将帮助中心创建研究路线图和研究推动力，最好地解决中心集体成员最紧迫的需求。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。