The modern facilities that host all V4-ICARUS activities at FORTH are state-of-the-art and include a well-controlled environment, access and security policies, all necessary general-purpose support, and ample office space. FORTH provides all required information technology infrastructure, including servers, storage, accounts, management, and administration. Most directly related to this project is the computational imaging-specific infrastructure and the wireless sensor networking data platform developed and available through the PI’s participation in FORTH-ICS Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Facility. The facility includes high-performance equipment such as hyperspectral and time-of-flight cameras, virtual displays, video processors, low power embedded platforms (e.g. Zolertia Z1, OpenMote IoT, Shimmer3 wearables, Odroid multi-processing units), an experimental cluster with hundreds of PCs, storage R&D platforms and dozens of HW & SW prototypes. In addition, the partner MiXIL at USC occupies a dedicated lab space of approximately 2000 ft2 housing microwave test equipment, radar instrumentation, focused microwave heating and therapy systems, near-field measurement facilities, wireless sensor network instrumentation, and an array of computational environment and electromagnetic and multiphysics modeling tools (such as Ansoft HFSS, COMSOL). 

V4-ICARUS Core Team consists of members from the Signal Processing Lab of FORTH-ICS. Being committed to the motto "teamwork makes the dream work", SPL highly promotes team spirit as an integral component to building a successful team. The foundation of every great team is a direction that energizes, orients, and engages its members. To this end, SPL encourages open, honest communication and fosters interaction among its members. Team spirit comes from the top. As such, our team's effectiveness comes from the right attitude of its members, which is achieved by flattening the traditional organizational pyramid instilling the right team culture. Clear team and individual expectations are established, whilst making sure everyone understands that it’s the result of the team’s work that counts. Ideas and suggestions from team members on ways to better achieve the team’s goals are more than welcome and, in fact, strongly encouraged.

The V4-ICARUS Core Team is complemented by an External Team of world-renowned experts. Our external collaborators (funded independently) include Jean-Luc Starck, head of the CosmoStat Lab at CEA/Saclay, and Mahta Moghaddam, head of the MiXIL Lab at the University of Southern California. The role of Dr. J.-L. Starck in this project is to provide data and advice as to the realism and applicability of our models and Big Data architecture, especially concerning the computational astrophysics project in WP5. Our collaboration with Prof. M. Moghaddam of USC concerns joint environmental remote sensing work within the Arid Climate and Water Research Center (AWARE) at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and NASA’s soil moisture active passive (SMAP) satellite. Her role will be to provide expertise in computational electromagnetics and measurement technologies, which combined with the PI’s strength in applied mathematics will help transcend the boundaries of microwave technology for a new generation of remote sensing systems envisioned in WP5. Prof. Moghaddam will also provide access to AWARE’s extensive AirMOSS and SoilSCAPE soil moisture and temperature datasets. The only additional cost to this project from the participation of these collaborators is funding to support annual visits by members of their teams to FORTH, as part of on-site collaborations and a series of lectures.