Creation of EarthSLOT: an Earth Science, Logistics, and Outreach Terrabase

创建 EarthSLOT：地球科学、后勤和外展平台

• 批准号: 0425120
• 负责人: Matt Nolan
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-01 至 2005-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0425120&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creation; EarthSLOT; Earth; Science; Logistics

This award for a Small Grant for Exploratory Research is intended to develop a novel front end that can be used with existing web-based GIS. The team will use commercial off-the-shelf software manufactured by the Skyline Software Corp, called TerraExplorer. Using this software, one can combine imagery and elevation data of various resolutions anywhere in the globe, fully control navigation over the globe in 3D, and query any internal or external databases that are in one of many standard formats (eg, ArcSDE, Oracle, delimited text files.). TerraExplorer combines the look and feel of a video game with the power of modern GIS analysis tools in an easy-to-use true interactive 3D application. These ease-of-use and video-game qualities will contribute to the success of other developments in Arctic GIS, as the former facilitates the creation of a robust tool and the latter encourages recurrent use. Content will be added to a prototype terrabase, called EarthSLOT (Earth Science, Logistics, and Outreach Terrabase).

该探索性研究小额赠款旨在开发可与现有基于网络的GIS一起使用的新颖前端。该团队将使用Skyline软件公司生产的现成商业软件TerraExplorer。使用该软件，可以在全球任何地方组合各种分辨率的图像和高程数据，在3D中完全控制全球导航，并查询许多标准格式之一的任何内部或外部数据库（例如，ArcSDE, Oracle，分隔文本文件）。TerraExplorer将视频游戏的外观和感觉与现代GIS分析工具的强大功能结合在一个易于使用的真正交互式3D应用程序中。这些易用性和视频游戏的特性将有助于北极地理信息系统的其他发展取得成功，因为前者有助于创建一个强大的工具，后者鼓励重复使用。内容将被添加到名为EarthSLOT（地球科学、物流和外展terrabase）的原型terrabase中。