Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics: The Eco Flight Simulator: Visualizing landscape patterns, ecosystem processes and biodiversity information using flight simulator technology

生物多样性和生态系统信息学：生态飞行模拟器：使用飞行模拟器技术可视化景观模式、生态系统过程和生物多样性信息

• 批准号: 0131924
• 负责人: Robert Stevenson
• 金额: $ 9.76万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Boston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0131924&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Biodiversity; Ecosystem; Informatics; Eco; Flight

EIA-0131924Stevenson, RobertUniversity of Massachusetts - Boston.BDEI: The Eco Flight Simulator: Visualizing landscape patterns, ecosystem processes and biodiveresity information using flight simulator technologySummaryThis proposal develops the Eco Flight Simulator a system for visualizing landscape patterns,ecosystem processes and biodiversity data. Many state and federal agencies are currentlygathering large amounts of spatial data via aerial photographs and satellite imagery that can beused for seeing the landscape (distribution and location of habitats, size of habitat fragments, therelationships among political and ecosystem boundaries), the analysis of ecosystem processes(water cycling, nutrient cycling, pollution movement) and biodiversity issues (habitat types,population of invasive species, species interactions, etc.). For the most part these data arecurrently presented in the form of maps using GIS software. The view is static and the datadisplayed are static (but see the USGS's National Map Initiative). However, flight simulatortechnologies, developed first for the military and now common in the entertainment industry,offer a much better visualization technology - a user defined birds eye view of the landscapethat can include the spatio-temporal complexity of the environment. Using standard off the shelfhardware, open source software and public domain data, marine (Stellwagen Bank NationalMarine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Maine) and terrestrial flight simulations (Ipswich and ParkerRiver Watersheds of Essex County Massachusetts) (one simulator) are developed that presentenvironmental information in new ways.

EIA-0131924 Stevenson，RobertUniversity of马萨诸塞州- Boston.BDEI：The Eco Flight Simulator：Visualizing landscape patterns，ecosystem processes and biodiveresity information using flight simulator technology摘要本提案开发了一个生态飞行模拟器系统，用于可视化景观格局，生态系统过程和生物多样性数据。许多州和联邦机构目前正在通过航空照片和卫星图像收集大量的空间数据，这些数据可以用于查看景观（生境的分布和位置、生境片断的大小、政治边界和生态系统边界之间的关系）、生态系统过程分析（水循环、养分循环、污染移动）和生物多样性问题（生境类型、入侵物种数量、物种相互作用等）。在大多数情况下，这些数据通常以地图的形式使用GIS软件呈现。视图是静态的，显示的数据也是静态的（但请参阅美国地质勘探局的国家地图倡议）。然而，飞行模拟器技术，首先为军事开发，现在在娱乐业中很常见，提供了一种更好的可视化技术-用户定义的鸟瞰图，可以包括环境的时空复杂性。使用标准的现成硬件、开放源代码软件和公共领域数据，开发了海洋（缅因州海湾的Stellwagen Bank NationalMarine Sanctuary）和陆地飞行模拟（马萨诸塞州埃塞克斯县的伊普斯维奇和帕克河流域）（一个模拟器），以新的方式呈现心理信息。