Announcement
of Opportunity
The Most Recent
BE Solicitation is:
NSF 03-597 |
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Instrumentation Development for Environmental Activities (IDEA)
This topical area will support the development of robust instrumentation and associated software
for observing, modeling and analyzing a wide range of complex environmental materials or compounds,
life forms, and processes. The instrumentation should take advantage of recent advances in
microelectronics, photonics, telemetry, robotics, wireless communication, and physical and chemical
sensing systems to bring recent advances out of the controlled environment of the laboratory into
the full spectrum of the Earth's environments. A unifying theme will be the development of
in situ instrumentation or remote sensing technologies that minimize environmental impact
and presence, while increasing real-time data-gathering opportunities and reducing or eliminating
human attention.
An important goal of research in the area is the development of useful instrumentation that can be
widely disseminated and aid production of environmental data of high quality and comparability.
Competitive proposals for advanced instrumentation will combine intelligent, adaptive systems with
associated software for data collection, complex modeling, simulation, pattern recognition,
management, and analysis. This activity supports the development of new instrumentation, or
significant improvements or enhancements to existing instrumentation (e.g., sensor fusion, systems
integration, or improved resolution, speed, or robustness). An example of an engineering IDEA
project is given below for FY 2002.
Deadlines for the "Biocomplexity in the Environment"
program are listed in the solicitation link at the top of the left column on this page.
IDEA Grants:
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The IDEA Program Coordinators are:
Rajinder Khosla, PhD
rkhosla@nsf.gov
ECS - Electrical and Communications Systems Division, and
Robert Wellek, PhD
rwellek@nsf.gov
CTS - Chemical and Transport Systems Division
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