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

eia -0131924史蒂文森，罗伯特马萨诸塞大学-波士顿。BDEI：生态飞行模拟器：利用飞行模拟器技术可视化景观格局、生态系统过程和生物多样性信息摘要本提案开发了生态飞行模拟器，一个可视化景观格局、生态系统过程和生物多样性数据的系统。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空间数据，这些数据可用于观察景观（栖息地的分布和位置、栖息地碎片的大小、政治和生态系统边界之间的关系）、生态系统过程（水循环、养分循环、污染运动）和生物多样性问题（栖息地类型、入侵物种数量、物种相互作用等）的分析。这些数据的大部分目前都是用GIS软件以地图的形式呈现的。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，最初是为军事而开发的，现在在娱乐行业中很常见，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、开源软件和公共领域数据，开发了海洋（缅因州湾的斯特尔瓦根银行国家海洋保护区）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），以新的方式呈现环境信息。

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.