Enhancing Research, Training, and Synthesis in Sedimentary Record Analyses: TMI Phase Two (Tool for Microscopic Identification)

1226265 myrboear地理信息学计划资助了一个为期两年的项目，以加强原型信息学工具的开发，旨在帮助非专家识别涂抹片中的沉积矿物和有机成分，以支持海洋和湖泊岩心的古记录研究。原型TMI（显微识别工具）的开发已经产生了一个在线应用程序。这笔拨款的支持将允许增强TMI的能力，包括：1)在核心描述期间用于涂片分析电子数据捕获的工作流程工具；2)对存储在相关数据库中的数据进行发现和显示的工具。该设计将涉及一个模块化的、可重用的架构，能够与多个外部数据源（例如Neotoma）和工作流工具进行交互。TMI将在解释模块中收集和维护一个图像和数据数据库，帮助没有光学岩石学专业经验的研究人员和学生快速识别涂片中的沉积物成分，并解释组合，将它们置于岩性和生物相及其环境和古环境意义的背景下。＊＊＊

1226265MyrboThis EAR Geoinformatics Program grant supports a two year project to augment development of a prototype informatics tool aimed at assisting non experts in identifying sedimentary minerals and organic components in smear slides to support paleorecords research on marine and lacustrine cores. Development of the prototype TMI (Tool for Microscopic Identification) has a resulted in an online application. Support from this grant will allow for augmented capabilities of TMI to include: 1) a workflow tool for electronic data capture of smear slide analysis during core description; and 2) a discovery and display tool for data stored in relevant databases. The design will involve a modular, reusable architecture capable of interacting with multiple external data sources (e.g., Neotoma) and workflow tools. TMI will collect and maintain a database of images and data in interpretive modules that will assist researchers and students without professional level experience in optical petrography to quickly identify sediment components in smear slides and to interpret the assemblages to place them in the context of litho- and bio-facies and their environmental and paleoenvironmental significance. ***