Acquisition of a High Accuracy/Resolution Landscape and Structure Characterization System (HARLS-CS) for Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Biology and Geosciences

获取用于人类学、考古学、建筑学、生物学和地球科学的高精度/分辨率景观和结构表征系统 (HARLS-CS)

• 批准号: 0321286
• 负责人: W. Frederick Limp
• 金额: $ 34.95万
• 依托单位: University of Arkansas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-01 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0321286&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; Accuracy; Resolution; Landscape; Structure

Investigations of a wide range of natural and human processes require data from varying scales - from global to site or plot. In the past, acquisition of data at the site/plot/field/structure level of investigation involved manual measurements, traditional survey, or other time consuming approaches. The High Accuracy/Resolution Landscape and Structure Characterization System (HARLS-CS) is an integrated suite of instruments designed to rapidly and accurately characterize the topographic and spectral properties of the surfaces of relatively small areas (e.g. 100s of square meters to 10s of hectares) and structures (such as building facades) at very high resolution (25 mm - 0.5 m). The system will provide coordinated three dimensional, multispectral and metric photographic-based measurements necessary for a wide range of mensuration, classification, and quantitative characterization analyses. The intellectual merit of the system derives from dramatic expansion of existing research activities in a number of disciplines and multidisciplinary areas. It will serve as a shared resource in the fields of anthropology, archeology, architecture, biology, biological and agricultural engineering, community planning/policy, entomology, geography, geology, photogrammetric mapping and terrain characterization, and water resource management. It will be managed by an experienced group of researchers growing their already substantial collaborative research capabilities. This approach will expand multi-disciplinary cross-pollination and exposure of faculty and students. The system will integrate seamlessly and expand a well-developed set of existing research programs and institutional structures that will insure its effective use. The system has broad impact for both education and socioeconomic capacity building. The HARLS-CS will play a significant role in expanding research training. It will provide both undergraduate and graduate students access to previously inaccessible high resolution data for their thesis research and will be used in "real world" applications in both advanced undergraduate and graduate classes. These offerings will help students develop valuable methodological expertise. By taking advantage of the existing, extensive hardware, software and course infrastructure already in place, the HARLS-CS will expand the integration of education and research. The equipment and data acquired by the instruments will play a key role in solutions to a variety of socially important problems. For example, measurements from the system will be used for visualizations of alternative development scenarios for communities around the state, providing a publicly accessible way to understand alternative future strategies. Data from the system will allow creation of detailed 3D urban maps to be used in support of aerosol dispersion analyses relating to both pollution studies and homeland security planning. The detailed data provided by the system will support reptile micro-habitat analyses. This is only a partial list.Data from the systems will be used in the ongoing EAST Project where various high-technology approaches are integrated into high school curricula in 152 schools in the state, particularly in underserved rural areas. Particular efforts will be placed in the recruitment of underrepresented groups into the student population exposed to these new opportunities. Regular "short course" offerings will be also used to insure that there is a substantial population of technically trained users.

对广泛的自然和人类过程的调查需要不同尺度的数据-从全球到现场或地块。在过去，在调查的现场/地块/现场/结构水平上获取数据涉及人工测量、传统测量或其他耗时的方法。高精度/分辨率景观和结构表征系统（HARLS-CS）是一套集成的仪器，旨在以非常高的分辨率（25 mm - 0.5 m）快速准确地表征相对较小区域（例如100平方米至10公顷）和结构（例如建筑物立面）表面的地形和光谱特性。该系统将提供协调的三维，多光谱和公制的测量为广泛的测量，分类和定量表征分析所必需的。该系统的知识价值来自于一些学科和多学科领域现有研究活动的急剧扩展。它将作为人类学、考古学、建筑学、生物学、生物和农业工程、社区规划/政策、昆虫学、地理学、地质学、摄影测量制图和地形特征描述以及水资源管理等领域的共享资源。它将由一组经验丰富的研究人员管理，以提高他们已经具备的大量合作研究能力。 这种方法将扩大多学科的交叉授粉和教师和学生的接触。 该系统将无缝集成并扩展一套完善的现有研究计划和机构结构，以确保其有效使用。 该系统对教育和社会经济能力建设产生了广泛影响。HARLS-CS将在扩大研究培训方面发挥重要作用。它将为本科生和研究生提供以前无法访问的高分辨率数据，用于他们的论文研究，并将用于“真实的世界”的应用程序在高级本科生和研究生班。 这些课程将帮助学生发展有价值的方法论专业知识。通过利用现有的广泛的硬件，软件和课程基础设施，HARLS-CS将扩大教育和研究的整合。 这些仪器所获得的设备和数据将在解决各种重要的社会问题方面发挥关键作用。 例如，该系统的测量结果将用于可视化该州各地社区的替代发展方案，提供一种公众可访问的方式来了解替代的未来战略。该系统的数据将允许创建详细的3D城市地图，用于支持与污染研究和国土安全规划有关的气溶胶扩散分析。 该系统提供的详细数据将支持爬行动物微生境分析。这只是一部分清单，来自这些系统的数据将用于正在进行的EAST项目，该项目将各种高科技方法纳入该州152所学校的高中课程，特别是在服务不足的农村地区。将特别努力招聘代表性不足的群体加入有这些新机会的学生群体。还将定期提供“短期课程”，以确保有大量受过技术培训的用户。