FSML: Imaging instrument array for coastal landscape and ecosystem analysis at the Baruch Marine Field Laboratory, University of South Carolina

授予南卡罗来纳大学(USC)的一项奖励将使研究人员能够部署一系列仪器，能够测量和跟踪沿海地区几个关键物理和环境条件的变化。该成套仪器将使巴鲁克研究所海洋现场实验室的研究人员能够在空间尺度上检查河口环境，这在以前是不可能的。该包裹将包括一个系留气球，配备了高光谱、红外和视频摄像头，以及一个分光光度计。调查人员将使用这些仪器测量沼泽植被的生长和分布、表面温度、水中悬浮物、水分运动、动物分布和地表以上数十至数百米的景观格局。补充的地面激光仪器(LIDAR)将提供潮汐沼泽、泥滩、小溪、海滩和潮间带牡蛎礁的三维地形图像和分析。将使用重复测量的地图来量化变化并调查影响沼泽海拔、地貌、潮汐淹没、动植物分布和生理状态的因素。结合正在进行的时间序列测量和面向过程的实地实验，成像仪器和激光雷达将用于研究风暴、变暖、持续干旱和海平面上升造成的影响和变化机制。仪器阵列将设在乔治敦郡的巴鲁克海洋野外实验室，南加州大学和来访的调查人员在那里研究北湾的盐沼河口已有40多年。成像仪器阵列将使已经熟悉研究区域的调查人员受益，吸引首次访问的科学家，并提供独特的机会，培训研究生和本科生如何使用该技术解决新的跨学科研究问题。仪器部署产生的图像、地图和其他产品将用于夏季课程，如通过南加州大学海洋科学计划提供的Capstone野外课程和继续教育计划研讨会。为来访的公众和年轻观众设计的产品将与北海口-温亚湾国家河口研究保护区工作人员合作开发，并通过霍布考男爵发现中心和在线分发。来自系留阵列和激光雷达的图像、数据和产品将通过巴鲁克研究所的网站http://www.baruch.sc.edu/.获得

An award made to the University of South Carolina (USC) will enable researchers to deploy an array of instruments capable of measuring and tracking changes in several key physical and environmental conditions of coastal areas. The instrument package will allow researchers at the Baruch Institute Marine Field Laboratory to examine the estuarine environment at a spatial scale that has heretofore been impossible. The package will contain a tethered balloon fitted with hyperspectral, infrared, and video cameras, and a spectrophotometer. Investigators will use the instruments to measure growth and distribution of marsh vegetation, surface temperature, suspended materials in water, water movement, animal distributions, and landscape pattern from tens to hundreds of meters above the surface. A complementary ground-based laser instrument (LIDAR) will provide three-dimensional topographic images and analyses of tidal marshes, mudflats, creeks, beaches, and intertidal oyster reefs. Mapping of repeated measurements will be used to quantify changes and investigate factors affecting marsh elevation, geomorphology, tidal inundation, animal and plant distributions, and physiological states. Coupled with ongoing time-series measurements and process-oriented field experiments, the imaging instruments and LIDAR will be used to address impacts and mechanisms of change due to storms, warming temperatures, persistent droughts, and sea-level rise. The instrument array will be based at the Baruch Marine Field Laboratory in Georgetown County, where USC and visiting investigators have been studying the salt marsh estuary at North Inlet for more than 40 years.The imaging instrument array will benefit investigators already familiar with the study area, attract first-time visiting scientists, and provide unique opportunities to train graduate and undergraduate students on how to use the technology to address new sets of inter-disciplinary research questions. Images, maps, and other products generated from instrument deployments will be used in summer courses such as the capstone field course offered through USC Marine Science Program and continuing education programs workshops. Products designed for the visiting public and young audiences will be developed in association with the North Inlet- Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve staff and distributed through the Hobcaw Barony Discovery Center and on-line. Images, data, and products from the tethered array and LIDAR will be available through the Baruch Institute web site at http://www.baruch.sc.edu/.