MRI: Acquisition of Mobile Spatial Data Acquisition and Processing Technologies to Support Cross-Disciplinary Research and Student Training

MRI：获取移动空间数据采集和处理技术以支持跨学科研究和学生培训

• 批准号: 0723068
• 负责人: Beverly Chiarulli
• 金额: $ 29.77万
• 依托单位: Indiana University of Pennsylvania Research Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0723068&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Mobile; Spatial; Data

This award provides funds to allow Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) to acquire Mobile Spatial Data Acquisition and Processing Technologies (MSDAPT) to support the collection and processing of highly precise spatial and geophysical field data. This instrumentation will be utilized within multiple disciplines at the University where the collection of locationally-accurate field data is crucial to research objectives. The MSADPT instrumentation will make the latest and most accurate technology available to faculty and students in Anthropology, Archaeology, Geography, Geoscience, History, and Planning in support of research excellence, as well as provide undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to gain experience using the latest equipment and designing and implementing technology-based field projects. In addition, MSDAPT will be a mechanism to expand and strengthen inter-departmental and inter-college communication through collaborative teaching and research at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Social and physical science departments at American universities have begun to incorporate spatial analysis instruction in their curricula, and increasing numbers of students each year are being introduced to geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) technologies at campuses across the country. Our emphasis on GIS and GPS training will produce students in several disciplines who will be capable of creating and managing their own spatial research databases. Including this training in research-oriented courses will strengthen classroom instruction and make students competitive in the employment marketplace and well-versed for graduate studies. The ability of researchers to use GIS and GPS technologies to identify patterns, trends, and behaviors provides a valuable resource for many fields. Geographic information systems are spatial databases that are able to model the earth's surface in discrete layers that can represent any variable desired (natural phenomena, settlement sites, artifacts, land cover/land use, bodies of water, etc.). Global positioning systems equipment provides a mechanism to record the location of phenomena that is not accurately documented on existing maps, and therefore must be recorded in the field. The utilization of GIS and GPS in MSDAPT will allow IUP faculty and students to integrate field-collected data with increasingly comprehensive mapping datasets produced by federal, state and local governments within uniform recognized geographic coordinate systems. MSDAPT will enable complex spatial analysis of a variety of phenomena across social and physical science disciplines at IUP when implemented.Indiana University of Pennsylvania is strongly committed to interdisciplinary research and teaching, and MSDAPT will continue and enhance this tradition. Faculty from four departments (Anthropology, Geography & Regional Planning, Geosciences, and History), and two colleges (Humanities & Social Sciences and Natural Sciences & Mathematics) will be contributing directly to the project. Institutionally, MSDAPT will provide new opportunities to document and analyze geographic and subsurface phenomena using methods that were not possible previously, improving university instruction, research productivity, educational outreach, and recruitment of new faculty.

该奖项提供资金，使宾夕法尼亚大学（IUP）的印第安纳州获得移动的空间数据采集和处理技术（MSDAPT），以支持收集和处理高精度的空间和地球物理场数据。 该仪器将在大学的多个学科中使用，其中位置准确的现场数据的收集对研究目标至关重要。MSADPT仪器将为人类学、考古学、地理学、地球科学、历史和规划领域的教师和学生提供最新、最准确的技术，以支持卓越的研究，并为本科生和研究生提供获得经验的机会使用最新的设备以及设计和实施基于技术的实地项目。此外，MSDAPT将是一个机制，以扩大和加强跨部门和跨学院的沟通，通过合作教学和研究在宾夕法尼亚州的印第安纳州大学。美国大学的社会科学和自然科学系已开始将空间分析教学纳入其课程，每年有越来越多的学生在全国各地的校园中学习地理信息系统和全球定位系统技术。我们对GIS和GPS培训的重视将培养出能够创建和管理自己的空间研究数据库的多个学科的学生。将这种培训纳入研究型课程将加强课堂教学，使学生在就业市场上具有竞争力，并精通研究生课程。研究人员使用GIS和GPS技术来识别模式、趋势和行为的能力为许多领域提供了宝贵的资源。地理信息系统是空间数据库，能够模拟地球表面的离散层，可以代表任何所需的变量（自然现象，定居点，人工制品，土地覆盖/土地使用，水体等）。全球定位系统设备提供了一种机制，可以记录现有地图上没有准确记录的现象的位置，因此必须在实地记录。在MSDAPT中利用GIS和GPS将使IUP教师和学生将现场收集的数据与联邦，州和地方政府在统一认可的地理坐标系内制作的日益全面的地图数据集相结合。MSDAPT将使在IUP的社会和物理科学学科的各种现象复杂的空间分析时实施。宾夕法尼亚州的印第安纳州大学是坚定地致力于跨学科的研究和教学，MSDAPT将继续和加强这一传统。来自四个系（人类学，地理区域规划，地球科学和历史）和两个学院（人文社会科学和自然科学数学）的教师将直接参与该项目。从制度上讲，MSDAPT将提供新的机会，使用以前不可能的方法记录和分析地理和地下现象，提高大学教学，研究生产力，教育推广和新教师的招聘。