UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA (UCSB)

UCSB will be the hub of the project, and the location of most of its activities. Several centers and departments will participate, specifically:

• the Department of Computer Science, and in particular the Center for Computational Modeling and Systems (CCMS), with expertise ranging from system architecture to database design and algorithms;
• the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and in particular the Center for Information Processing Research (CIPR), with expertise in image processing, pattern recognition, and image compression;
• the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, a multidisciplinary NSF research center founded in 1988 and focusing on basic research in the theory and techniques of geographic information systems;
• the Center for Remote Sensing and Environmental Optics, focusing on scientific research based on remote sensing, and a partner with UC Berkeley and other UC campuses in the Sequoia/2000 project to develop a distributed computing environment for Earth system science;
• the UCSB Library, and in particular the Map and Image Laboratory, which contains one of the nation's largest map libraries and Earth image collections, with extensive digital holdings.