Real-Time Applications

Opening a University Fiber Highway between Mexico and the USA

URL:
iGridMX.cicese.mx

Contact:
Carlos Casasus and Eric Frost, CUDI, Mexico, and San Diego State University (SDSU), USA, ccasasus @ cudi.edu.mx, eric.frost @ sdsu.edu

Collaborators:
CUDI, Mexico: Carlos Casasus
SDSU, USA: Eric Frost, Bob Welty, John Graham
CICESE, Mexico: Javier Mendieta Jiménez, Luis Farfán, Edgar Pavia, Tereza Cavazos, Raúl Hazas Izquierdo, Salvador Castañeda, Julián Delgado, José Luis Rodríguez
CONACYT, Mexico: Jaime Parada, Juan Milton Garduño, Carlos Duarte
Telmex, Mexico: Benjamin Podoswa
Stanford University, USA: Milton Chen
University of California, San Diego, USA: Peter Arzberger, Cindy Zheng

Optical fiber newly installed between San Diego and Tijuana, and ultimately extending down to CICESE in Ensenada in the Baja California Peninsula, is enabling collaborative USA / Mexican research in Earth, oceanographic and atmospheric sciences. At iGrid, 3D visualizations of shared terrain enable scientists to better understand the consequences of fires, floods, and earthquakes, which have no geographical boundaries. Environmental modeling and simulation visualizations fed by real-time sensor information combined with legacy visualizations provide hybrid visualizations for situational awareness for public safety, economic effect assessment, and shared Homeland Security.