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

该合同提供资金，允许宾夕法尼亚印第安纳大学(IUP)获得移动空间数据获取和处理技术(MSDAPT)，以支持高精度空间和地球物理场数据的收集和处理。这一仪器将在大学的多个学科中使用，在这些学科中，收集准确的实地数据对研究目标至关重要。MSADPT仪器将为人类学、考古学、地理学、地学、历史学和规划学的教职员工和学生提供最新和最准确的技术，以支持卓越的研究，并为本科生和研究生提供使用最新设备以及设计和实施基于技术的实地项目的机会。此外，MSDAPT将成为一个机制，通过宾夕法尼亚印第安纳大学的合作教学和研究，扩大和加强部门间和学院间的沟通。美国大学的社会科学系和自然科学系已经开始将空间分析教学纳入课程，每年都有越来越多的学生在全国各地的校园里被介绍到地理信息系统(GIS)和全球定位系统(GPS)技术。我们对地理信息系统和全球定位系统培训的重视将培养出几个学科的学生，他们将能够创建和管理自己的空间研究数据库。将这一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，并精通研究生学习。研究人员使用地理信息系统和全球定位系统技术识别模式、趋势和行为的能力为许多领域提供了宝贵的资源。地理信息系统是一种空间数据库，能够在离散的层中模拟地球表面，可以表示所需的任何变量(自然现象、定居点、人工制品、土地覆盖/土地利用、水体等)。全球定位系统设备提供了一种机制来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中使用地理信息系统和全球定位系统将使IUP的教职员工和学生能够在统一的公认地理坐标系内将实地收集的数据与联邦、州和地方政府制作的日益全面的地图数据集整合在一起。实施后，MSDAPT将能够对IUP的社会科学和自然科学学科中的各种现象进行复杂的空间分析。宾夕法尼亚印第安纳大学坚定地致力于跨学科研究和教学，MSDAPT将继续并发扬这一传统。来自四个系(人类学、地理与区域规划、地球科学和历史学)和两个学院(人文与社会科学和自然科学与数学)的教员将直接为该项目做出贡献。在制度上，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，改善大学教学、研究生产率、教育推广和新教师的招聘。

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.