CITI

   CITI was established to promote the vision of empowering SDSU to take advantage of emerging tools in optical networking, wireless communication, and human-computer interactions through visualization.  On behalf of the entire university, it nurtures new technological tools and builds on existing efforts in environmental monitoring, student safety, transportation studies, law enforcement and first responder interaction, homeland security, collaborative education, Internet technologies, and other high interest areas.   

    CITI activities extend to many sectors of the community (government, business, academia, non-profit organizations, and private citizens) and among different jurisdictions within the region.  It focuses on the power of collaboration and shared resources and goals to increase the regions competitive ability to retain and attract people, businesses, and jobs.  The Center is a product of the efforts of the SDSU Visualization Center in community exercise development and participation.  Its infrastructure exists in the form of hardware, software, facilities, people, and relationships.  Many of these resources were informally gathered through the efforts of the SDSU Viz Center, the SDSU Foundation, and relationships with corporations.  Over the past few years SDSU has actively collaborated and established partnerships with other academic and medical institutions, law enforcement and military agencies, local, state and federal governmental agencies, and many high technology corporations.

CITI pursues four major themes which provide framework for the center, and a pathway for diverse projects.

• Homeland Security
• Natural disaster mitigation and response  
• Global sharing of information and collaborative visualizations
• Remote sensing and environmental monitoring

CITI is Co-Directed by:

Eric Frost eric.frost@sdsu.edu

Bob Welty bwelty@foundation.sdsu.edu