Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium: Geospatial Technologies and Geomorphological Mapping

该项目支持2010年10月在南卡罗来纳州哥伦比亚举行的第41届宾厄姆顿地貌学年会（BGS）。 该项目将为青年科学家和研究生（包括代表人数不足的群体）的参与、会议后勤、应邀发言者的差旅费支助以及会议记录卷的出版提供便利。2010年BGS大会的主题是“地理空间技术与地貌制图”，由南卡罗来纳州大学的Allan James博士和北卡罗来纳州查佩尔山大学的Stephen沃尔什博士共同主办，和内布拉斯加大学奥马哈分校的迈克尔·毕晓普博士将讨论现代测绘技术和地理空间分析在地貌科学中的理论和应用。 该BGS将为理解现代数字地貌制图（DGM）的近期目标和潜力提供科学依据。DGM提供了对地貌系统的深入了解，包括因果关系的识别，过程力学，通过变化检测的历史重建，多尺度分析和建模，以及能量和物质通量的评估。 该BGS将审查DGM的理论基础，新的数据源，光学和非光学遥感系统，信息提取技术，图像融合增强和分类，空间建模和分析方法（例如工具箱）。它将回顾地貌成因，外部强迫，过程动力学和反馈机制的发展。 通过对现代地貌制图采取广泛的方法，该BGS将寻求预测和促进新一代地貌制图和地理空间分析能力。这一广泛的地貌“映射”的观点将研究纳入现代交互式数据库技术，如空间决策支持系统和基于网络的映射和探索概念，如多尺度分析和现代数据存储，传播和可视化策略的潜力。 这次BGS将是第一次将地貌制图和地理空间技术作为一个综合主题的地貌学会议。 遥感、地理信息技术和地表过程数值模拟方面的技术进步使地貌学领域发生了革命性的变化，需要召开一次信息评估和传播专题讨论会。 地球科学家并不总是意识到新技术、数据集和方法的能力和局限性，因此将讨论新发展的解释和可靠性。新方法还使地球科学家能够超越传统的地球表面测绘和建模。论文和海报将提供一个广泛的新的综合和整合的快速增长的领域，跨越子领域内和超越地貌。将在会前审查主要科学家的特邀论文，并将其发表在会议记录卷和《地貌学》杂志特刊上。 BGS学期期间，南加州大学将举办研究生研讨会，让学生参与论文的批判性评估以及会议的组织和主办。

This project supports the 41st Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium (BGS) in Columbia, South Carolina in October 2010. The project will facilitate participation of junior scientists and graduate students (including under-represented groups), conference logistics, travel support for invited speakers and publication of a proceedings volume. The BGS is widely recognized as a leading international conference concerned with various topics in geomorphology.The theme of the 2010 BGS, Geospatial Technologies and Geomorphological Mapping, set by co-organizers of the conference Dr. Allan James from the University of South Carolina, Dr. Stephen Walsh from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Dr. Michael Bishop at the University of Nebraska-Omaha will address theories and applications of modern mapping technology and geospatial analyses to geomorphic science. This BGS will provide a scientific basis for understanding the immediate goals and potential of modern digital geomorphic mapping (DGM). DGM provides insights into geomorphic systems including recognition of causality, process mechanics, historical reconstructions through change detection, multi-scale analysis and modeling, and assessments of energy and matter fluxes. This BGS will review the theoretical basis of DGM, new data sources, optical and non-optical remote sensing systems, information-extraction technologies, image fusing for enhancement and classification, spatial modeling, and analytical approaches (e.g. tool boxes). It will review developments in landform genesis, external forcings, process dynamics, and feedback mechanisms. By taking a broad approach to modern geomorphic mapping, this BGS will seek to anticipate and facilitate a new generation of geomorphic mapping and geospatial analytical capabilities. This broad view of geomorphic 'mapping' will examine the potential for incorporating modern interactive database technologies such as spatial decision support systems and web-based mapping and explore concepts such as multi-scale analyses and modern data storage, dissemination, and visualization strategies. This BGS will be the first conference on geomorphology that addresses the fields of geomorphic mapping and geospatial technology as an integrated theme. Technological advances in remote sensing, geographic information technologies, and numerical modeling of surface processes have revolutionized the field of geomorphology and call for a symposium for the evaluation and dissemination of information. Geoscientists are not always aware of the capabilities and limitations of new technologies, data sets, and methodologies, so interpretations and reliabilities of new developments will be addressed. New methods also permit Earth scientists to go beyond traditional mapping and modeling of the Earth surface. Papers and posters will provide a broad new synthesis and integration of a rapidly growing field that spans subfields within and beyond geomorphology. Invited papers by leading scientists will be reviewed and published in a proceedings volume prior to the meeting and in a special issue of the journal, Geomorphology. A graduate seminar will be taught at USC during the semester of the BGS to involve students in critical evaluations of the papers, and the organization and hosting of the meeting.