Cooperative Research: A Joint Facility for Regional Ecosystem Analysis

生物设施中心的提案要求为建立区域生态系统分析联合设施提供资金。科罗拉多州立大学自然资源生态学实验室、林业与自然资源学院、科罗拉多大学北极与高山研究所和空间地球研究中心的科学家将参与这个跨学科研究的联合设施。该设施将建立在图像处理和模拟建模的主要现有设备上，但将扩大到包括新的中尺度遥感仪器、图像增强和分析系统以及地理数据分析软件。所有这些都整合到一个系统中，使两家机构的科学家能够分享这一强大的技术，并在区域范围的研究中进行合作。遥感创建区域数据库，图像处理和空间数据分析对这些数据进行转换和操作，生态系统建模为外推提供了预测工具。通过将这些技术结合到一个单一的设施中，这些技术将使研究能力有一个巨大的飞跃。

This Biological Facilities Center proposal requests funds to establish a joint facility for Regional Ecosystem Analysis. Scientists at Colorado State University's Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory and College of Forestry and Natural Resources and the University of Colorado's Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research and Center for the Study of Earth from Space will participate in this joint facility for interdisciplinary research. The facility will build on major existing equipment in image processing and simulation modeling but will be expanded to include new mesoscale remote sensing instrumentation, image enhancement and analysis systems, and geographic data analysis software, all integrated into a system that will allow scientists at both institutions to share this powerful technology and cooperate in regional-scale research. Remote sensing creates regional data bases, image processing and spatial data analysis transform and manipulate these data, ecosystems modeling provides a predictive tool for extrapolation. By combining these into a single facility, these techniques will enable a quantum leap in research capabilities.