Introducing Electronic Mapping Tools in a Geology Field Camp and a Research-Based Geology Curriculum

在地质野外营和基于研究的地质课程中引入电子测绘工具

• 批准号: 9851165
• 负责人: Beth Lincoln
• 金额: $ 3.21万
• 依托单位: Albion College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-01 至 2000-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9851165&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Introducing; Electronic; Mapping; Tools; Geology

Electronic mapping tools, including global positioning system (GPS) and laser ranging equipment, promise to revolutionize geological mapping. Our project will give students in our field camp and on campus a working familiarity with this equipment, and allow them to develop new insights into geology that the precision and data-managing capability of this equipment allow. The largest impact will be in our six-week field camp, taught in the Rockies. GPS is best suited to support our traditional mapping exercises, and will be used to locate points and log data in several multiple day projects. Laser rangefinders, coupled with GPS, provide a means of fast and accurate detailed topographic and geologic mapping of small areas. Total stations, when used with proper surveying techniques, provide even higher accuracy, at a cost of more time. By using both a total station and a rangefinder in several projects, students will develop practical experience with the capabilities and the limitations of each tool. As a result of our project, students will be able to select the appropriate tool for their task, understand the principles on which the tools operate, use the instruments effectively in a field setting. In our 15 years of teaching field camp, we have uncovered a number of field problems that these tools are well suited to address, and we are excited to see the results. We have been able to pilot work with GPS, and thus have the experience to design effective projects. Our Department has a successful philosophy of making all of our instrumentation available to students at all levels. Thus this equipment will also support innovations in courses and student research projects on campus ranging from introductory students creating topographic maps to seniors developing new research projects based on precise mapping of local outwash deposits.

电子测绘工具，包括全球定位系统和激光测距设备，有望使地质测绘发生革命性变化。我们的项目将让学生在我们的野外营地和校园工作熟悉这种设备，并允许他们开发新的见解地质学，这种设备的精度和数据管理能力允许。最大的影响将是在我们为期六周的野外营地，在落基山脉授课。GPS最适合支持我们的传统制图练习，并将用于定位点和记录几个多天项目中的数据。激光测距仪与全球定位系统相结合，提供了一种快速、准确地绘制小区域详细地形和地质图的手段。全站仪，当使用适当的测量技术，提供更高的精度，在更多的时间成本。通过在几个项目中同时使用全站仪和测距仪，学生将获得每种工具的功能和局限性的实践经验。由于我们的项目，学生将能够选择合适的工具，他们的任务，了解的原则上的工具操作，有效地使用仪器在现场设置。在我们15年的实地教学中，我们发现了许多这些工具非常适合解决的实地问题，我们很高兴看到结果。我们已经能够用全球定位系统进行试点工作，因此拥有设计有效项目的经验。 我们的部门有一个成功的理念，使我们所有的仪器提供给各级学生。因此，这些设备还将支持课程和学生研究项目的创新，从入门学生制作地形图到高年级学生根据当地冰水沉积物的精确绘图开发新的研究项目。