Laboratory for Undergraduate GIS Education

GIS本科教育实验室

• 批准号: 9750859
• 负责人: Matthew Bampton
• 金额: $ 4.16万
• 依托单位: University of Southern Maine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-07-01 至 1999-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9750859&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Laboratory; Undergraduate; GIS; Education

The new computer equipment upgrades and expands the old limited geographical information systems (GIS) facilities at the university. This upgraded facility allows the development of new undergraduate courses incorporating the use of GIS and the upgrade of existing courses in three departments: Geosciences, Geography/Anthropology, and Environmental Science and Policy. Students benefit from exposure to a multiplatform setting. They gain experience in raster, vector, and cartographic design systems and the creation and manipulation of large databases, while working in IBM and UNIX environments. In addition, students are exposed to Arc/Info in both platforms, IDRISI, and ArcView 3. This project (1) increases the university's capacity to make GIS exposure available to a larger number of students than is currently possible, (2) expands systematic GIS exposure from one to three departments, and (3) expands the current GIS capability from a PC platform to a multiplatform system. The GIS facility acts to enhance the synergy among the three departments and to more effectively integrate course offerings benefitting from the use of GIS among the three. The system also serves to strengthen ties between the traditional student majors, local professionals with an interest in GIS, and state and local agencies with appropriate databases and GIS facilities. *

新的计算机设备升级和扩展了大学原有的有限的地理信息系统(地理信息系统)设施。这一升级后的设施允许开发新的本科课程，纳入地理信息系统的使用，并升级三个系的现有课程：地球科学、地理/人类学和环境科学与政策。学生从接触多平台环境中受益。他们在IBM和Unix环境中工作的同时，获得了栅格、矢量和地图设计系统以及大型数据库创建和操作方面的经验。此外，学生还可以在Idrisi和ArcView 3这两个平台上接触到Arc/Info。该项目(1)增加了大学的能力，使更多的学生可以接触到地理信息系统，(2)将系统的地理信息系统接触从一个系扩展到三个系，以及(3)将当前的地理信息系统功能从PC平台扩展到多平台系统。地理信息系统设施的作用是加强三个部门之间的协同作用，并更有效地综合利用地理信息系统在三个部门之间提供的课程。该系统还有助于加强传统学生专业、对地理信息系统感兴趣的当地专业人员以及拥有适当数据库和地理信息系统设施的州和地方机构之间的联系。*