TerraFly Geospatial System for Disaster Mitigation

Florida International University’s (FIU’s) secondphase CREST, the Center for Innovative Information Systems Engineering is housed in its School of Computing and Information Sciences and its Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The Center’s four research thrusts bring together a multidisciplinary group of researchers, large-scale collaborative relationships, and a broad ecosystem of partners to perform research that will lead to information technologies that help to solve critical societal problems of national priority. TerraFly users visualize aerial imagery, precise street name overlays, and various other overlays. Users virtually "fly" over imagery via a web browser, without any software to install or plug in. Tools include user-friendly geospatial querying, data drilldown, real-time data suppliers, demographic analysis, annotation, customizable applications, route dissemination via autopilots, production of aerial atlases, and application programming interface (API) for web sites.