This
proposal was submitted to the NSF's Information Technology Research
grants program on February 6, 2002.
NSF-ITR
Project Summary (58k pdf)
Proposal Description
(234k pdf )
Conceptual Diagram
of KINDRED (25k gif)
References (144k
pdf)
International
Collaboration/ Letters of Support (433k pdf)
Facilities (60k
pdf)
Co-Principal Investigators
(94k pdf)
Long-term
integrated planning in cross-border metropolitan areas is an increasingly
complex task. There is now a pressing need for innovative information
technologies and new planning methods that can reconcile and integrate
the activities of regional data providers, planners, managers,
politicians and community groups in support of integrated decision-making.
This is especially true for large binational metropolitan areas
such as the San Diego-Tijuana metropolitan region and other fast
growing twin cities along the U.S.-Mexico border. This project
aims to create and explore a new framework for Knowledge-based
Integration and Navigation of Distributed Regional Environmental
Data (KINDRED), to support integrated decision-making in metropolitan
planning. The KINDRED "SPIRIT" (SPatially Integrated
Regional Information Testbed) system, focusing on the semantic
integration of land use databases across the border, will be developed.
