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TerraFly users visualize aerial imagery, precise street name overlays, and various other overlays. Users virtually "fly" over imagery via a web browser, without any software to install or plug in. Tools include user-friendly geospatial querying, data drill-down, interfaces with real-time data suppliers, demographic analysis, annotation, route dissemination via autopilots, customizable applications, production of aerial atlases.

The TerraFly project has been featured on TV news programs, worldwide press, covered by the New York Times, Science and Nature journals, named Yahoo.com's top Pick of the Week and USA Today Hot Site, and has won the 2002 Miami Herald Business Plan Competition and DM Review's 2002 World Class Solution Award.

TerraFly datasets are listed at: http://n1.cs.fiu.edu/terrafly.coverage.htm
They include, among others, 1-meter aerial photography of almost the entire United States and 1-foot full-color recent imagery of selected areas (soon to be 130 metropolitan areas).

Vertical Applications:
- Real estate: http://n1.cs.fiu.edu/Terrafly4Realtors/
- National&local security, disaster mitigation, fire departments, flood maps, epidemiology: http://n1.cs.fiu.edu/Terrafly4Public.Safety/
- Ecology: http://n1.cs.fiu.edu/Terrafly4Ecology/
- Outdoor Recreation: http://n1.cs.fiu.edu/Terrafly4Parks/
- Education: http://n1.cs.fiu.edu/Terrafly4Education/
- Other Industries: http://terrafly.fiu.edu/TP/industries.html
- Production of visual atlases: http://n1.cs.fiu.edu/TerraAtlas/
- Dissemination of route fly-overs: http://n1.cs.fiu.edu/Autopilots/
- Future Applications: http://n1.cs.fiu.edu/Terrafly.Future.Applications/