Spanias to lead NSF-funded project

<p class="MsoNormal">Andreas Spanias, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and director of the SenSIP (Sensor, Signal &amp; Information Processing) consortium, is leading a collaborative National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project to develop a software program designed to aid earth science research.</p><separator></separator><p class="MsoNormal">Spanias and his team – including Linda Hinnov, the project’s director and an associate research professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, and James Ogg, a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science at Purdue University – will participate in the three-year, $575,000 project, titled “Collaborative Research: An Astronomical-Calibrated Time Scale for the Mesozoic Era.”</p><separator></separator><p class="MsoNormal">The team will use a Java-DSP (digital signal processing) software package, a visual Web-based programming environment developed by ASU electrical engineering faculty and graduate students working with SenSIP.</p><separator></separator><p class="MsoNormal">Java-DSP, which has been used for wireless sensing research and DSP education technology projects funded by NSF, is available on the Web for public use.</p><separator></separator><p class="MsoNormal">For their part in the new collaborative project, Spanias and his team will create a new Java-DSP program – J-DSP/Earth Systems Edition (J-DSP/ESE) – that will enable scientists to use modern signal processing techniques to address problems in earth systems research.</p>