Workshop on a Proposal to Establish and Operate a National Center for Airborne Laser Swath Mapping

0314680卡特这笔赠款提供资金的研讨会，讨论研究机会和潜在的运作和管理的国家中心机载激光测绘（ALSM）。 讲习班将于2003年4月25日至26日在盖恩斯维尔举行。FL在佛罗里达大学酒店和会议中心，并将汇集大约35-50机载激光测距技术的领先学术用户和他们的学生。ALSM允许获取非常高分辨率（5-10厘米垂直精度，15-20厘米水平精度）的地球表面数字高程模型（DEM）。 高分辨率DEM为许多基本的地表过程模型提供了重要的输入，这些过程包括山坡土壤蠕变、排水网络发展、屏障海滩动力学、滑坡、地表断层破裂和冰川动力学。现代ALSM系统，如佛罗里达大学已经拥有的系统，也能够绘制植被冠层表面以及冠层以下的地面。 该研讨会将促进未来使用ALSM的合作，并将改进管理ALSM国家中心的计划。 ALSM技术的可访问性，以广泛的学术地理和生态科学家将启动一场革命，在我们的基本地球过程的理解尺度相关的问题。更好地从物理上了解地表变化过程具有内在的社会意义，应能更好地减轻自然灾害，并导致资源管理的进步。

0314680CarterThis grant provides funding for a workshop to discuss research opportunities and the potential operation and management of a National Center for Airborne Laser Swath Mapping (ALSM). The workshop will be held on 25-26 April, 2003 in Gainesville. FL at the University of Florida Hotel and Conference Center and will bring together roughly 35-50 leading academic users of airborne laser ranging technology and their students. ALSM allows for acquisition of very high resolution (5-10 cm vertical accuracy, 15-20 cm horizontal accuracy) digital elevation models (DEMs) of the earth's surface. High resolution DEMs provide crucial input for models of a multitude of fundamental surficial processes including hillslope soil creep, drainage network development, barrier beach dynamics, landslides, surface fault rupture, and glacial dynamics. Modern ALSM systems such as the one already owned by the University of Florida are also capable of mapping the vegetative canopy surface as well as the ground surface below the canopy. The workshop will foster future collaborations using ALSM and will improve plans to manage a National Center for ALSM. The accessibility of ALSM technology to a broad range of academic geo- and ecological scientists will initiate a revolution in our understanding of fundamental earth processes at scales relevant to the problem. An improved physical understanding of surficial processes is inherently societally relevant and should improve mitigation of natural hazards and lead to advances in resource management.***