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Location-Based Services
The Location-Based Services (LBS) portfolio focuses on the fields of indoor mapping, tracking, and navigation for the public safety community.
Location-Based Services Portfolio Mission:
Accelerate the pace of technological development in the fields of indoor mapping, tracking, and navigation for the public safety community and remove barriers to adopting these technologies.
Location-Based Services Portfolio Vision:
Position PSCR to transition the innovative technologies, approaches, and research capacity created in this portfolio to products, standards, and public safety systems.
Featured Project
The ability to locate and track first responders operating indoors under difficult conditions remains a 'Holy Grail' sought by the public safety community. PSCR award recipient the Board of Trustees of Indiana University is implementing a prize challenge to generate solutions for this extremely difficult problem.
Overview
Internal Research Projects
- Future of Pre-Incident Planning
- Indoor Localization System Evaluation Facility
- PerfLoc: Performance Evaluation of Smartphone Indoor Localization Apps
- Testing of Indoor Localization Systems
Extramural Research
- PSIAP 2017 Location-Based Services Projects
- Tech to Protect Prize Challenge
- Indoor Mapping and Navigation Pilot
- PSIAP i-Axis
- PSIAP Point Cloud City
- PSIAP First Responder 3D Indoor Tracking Prize
- PSIAP-2022
Quick Resources
- Location-Based Services Portfolio Publications
- Public Safety Immersive Test Center Fact Sheet
- Webinar Recording: Using Lasers to Save Lives
- Webinar Recording: NIST & the FirstNet Authority's Public Safety Immersive Test Center
Related Content
- PSCR Awards Over $750K for PSIAP Point Cloud City
- Using Lasers to Save Lives
- PSCR Awards $8M for First Responder 3D Indoor Tracking Prize
- Tracking Location from the Sole of a Shoe
- FirstNet Authority, NIST Launch Immersive Virtual Experience Center for Public Safety
- PSCR Awards More than $10M for Final Major Funding Opportunity
Team Members and Past Contributors
Team Members
- Joseph Grasso, PSCR LBS Portfolio Lead
- Alexander Dimopoulos
- Monika Bochert
- Nader Moayeri
- Doga Demirkan
- Mengyao (Annie) Dong
- Rebecca Vandermus
Past Contributors
- A. Judson Braga, guest researcher from Telecom Paris Tech, Paris, France, 2007-2008
- M. Onur Ergin, guest researcher from Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2015-2016
- Johannes Geissbuehler, guest researcher from ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 2005-2006
- Camillo A. Gentile, NIST full-time staff member, since 2001
- Dominik Kaspar, guest researcher from ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 2005-2007
- Salman Khan, guest researcher from University of Engineering and Technology, Mardan, Pakistan, 2023
- Alfred Kik, guest researcher from Telecom Paris Tech, Paris, France, 2005-2007
- Luke Klein-Berndt, NIST full-time staff member, 2001-2006
- Arjun Krishnakumar, summer student intern from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2007
- Chang Li, guest researcher from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 2016-2022
- Sofia Martinez Lopez, guest researcher from Telecom Paris Tech, Paris, France, 2007-2008
- Leonard E. Miller, NIST full-time staff member, 2000-2006 (deceased, 2006)
- Manuel J. Ortiz, summer student intern from University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, 2013
- Julio Perez, guest researcher from ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 2007-2008
- Haris A. Raja, summer student intern from University of Maryland at College Park, 2005
- Kamran Sayrafian, NIST full-time staff member, since 2004
- Lu Shi, guest researcher from Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN, 2016-2021
- John Shiu, summer student intern from University of Maryland at College Park, 2006
- Michael R. Souryal, NIST full-time staff member, 2004-2020 (deceased, 2020)
- Fabien A. Valoit, guest researcher from Polytech Nice-Sophia, Nice, France, 2008-2013
- Andreas Wapf, guest researcher from ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 2006-2008
Other Contributors to the PerfLoc Project from Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2014-2015
- Filip Lemic
- Vlado Handziski
- Adam Wolisz
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