The Weather Underground: Application of Computer Technology to Science in Michigan Secondary Schools

参孙95-54211 在密歇根大学的大气、海洋和空间科学系内运作，地下天气已经为互联网社区提供近实时的气象条件和国家气象局预报3年。Weather Underground开发了一种技术，可以为图像带来用户交互性。从希望提供一个直观的界面，探索复杂的数据（所有当前的天气状况，并预测在美国的每个机场），客户端-服务器技术已经开发，它提供了一个框架，信息可以“附加”到图像。信息可以像文本（标题）一样简单，也可以像动态视频（CUSee-Me会话）一样复杂。 Weather Underground的灵感愿景是由多个学科的专业人员组成的团队完成的。人文和科学界之间的交叉授粉创造了一个合作的工作环境，在大学之间延伸。通过NSF的支持，这一资助周期将把天气地下系统的复杂性带到整个互联网社区的教师和学生手中。建议建立软件系统，参与者可以很容易地创建交互式图像，并创建基于服务器的调查系统。创建这样的系统将允许参与者创建特定领域的访谈，在互联网上进行。 本提案所处的内容领域是水文循环，包括水质。这是一系列内容组成部分中的第二个，将把天气、空气质量、水文循环、水质、土地利用和农业联系起来。这一研发迭代将完善当前用于输入和浏览复杂数据集的直观界面。此外，数据收集方法将在适当时用于收集大量教育研究数据样本并自动处理这些数据。 交互式图像格式（.iif）是一种定义区域和动作的语言，允许作者创建网络图像。区域包括：点/像素，多边形，矩形，颜色，弹出菜单，帮助气泡。动作包括：warm（mouseOver）、hot（mouseClick）。操作影响属性，包括：显示、隐藏、URL（ftp、gopher、http）。iif语言与.html一样，是平台和服务器独立的，确保从多个硬件平台进行浏览和创作，并允许.iif文件被合并到现有的Internet浏览器中。这轮融资将为Macintosh和X-Windows平台生产直观的IlFConstructor。这些编辑器将以图形为导向，非常容易使用。他们的产品将是利用网络资源的交互式图像。这是地下天气的目标，把这个编辑器的权力到K12学生的手中。 天气地下的经验与实时数据流已经产生了一个非常复杂的一系列相互连接的软件程序，能够输入，处理和显示大量的数据。该系统来自目前的NSF-MT资金。这个建议是一个尝试，我们的多带宽用户界面与我们先进的数据处理引擎。Weather Underground与教育和科学合作伙伴合作，能够创建一个涉及大量参与者的测试平台。这个建议是一个尝试，把我们的“原始计算”到世界各地的参与者手中，通过直观的，“酷”的界面。

Samson 95-54211 Operating from within the Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences Department at the University of Michigan, The Weather Underground has been supplying the Internet community near real-time meteorological conditions and National Weather Service forecasts for 3 years. The Weather Underground has developed a technology which brings user interactivity to imagery. Growing from the desire to provide an intuitive interface for exploring complex data (all current weather conditions, and forecasts for every airport in the United States), a client-server technology has been developed which provides a framework where information can be 'attached' to imagery. Information can be as simple as text (caption), or as complex as motion video(CUSee-Me session). The Weather Underground's inspired vision is carried to completion by a team of dedicated individuals in multiple disciplines. The cross pollination between the humanities and the science communities has created a collaborative working environment extending between universities. Through NSF support, this funding cycle will bring the complexity of the Weather Underground systems into the hands of teachers and students throughout the Internet community. It is proposed to build software systems where participants can easily create interactive imagery, and create server based survey systems. The creation of such systems will allow participants to create domain specific interviews, carried out over the Internet. The content domain in which this proposal sits is the hydrology cycle, including water quality. This is the second of a series of content components, which will link the weather, air quality, the hydrology cycle, water quality, land use, and agriculture. This iteration of research and development will refine current intuitive interfaces for entering and browsing complex data sets. Additionally, the data collection methods will be used, when appropriate, to gather large samples of educational research data and process this data automatically. The Interactive Image Format (.iif) is a language which defines regions and actions, allowing authors to create networked imagery. Regions include: points/pixels, polygons, rectangles, colors, pop-menus, help bubbles. Actions include: warm (mouseOver), hot (mouseClick). Actions effect properties, including: show, hide, URL(ftp, gopher, http). Paralleling .html, the .iif language is platform and server independent, insuring browsing and authoring to occur from multiple hardware platforms, and allowing .iif files to be incorporated into existing Internet browsers. This round of funding will produce intuitive IlFConstructors for both the Macintosh and X-Windows platforms. These editors will be graphically oriented and very easy to use. Their products will be interactive images which utilize networked resources. It is the goal of The Weather Underground to put the power of this editor into the hands of K12 students. The Weather Underground's experience with real-time data streams has produced a very intricate series of interconnected software programs capable of ingesting, processing, and displaying large volumes of data. This system has come from the current NSF-MT funding. This proposal is an attempt to link our multi-bandwidth user interfaces with our sophisticated data processing engines. The Weather Underground has teamed with educational, and scientific partners capable of creating a testbed involving large numbers of participants. This proposal is an attempt to put our 'raw-computation' into the hands of worldwide participants through intuitive ,"cool" interfaces.