Collaborative Research: Leveraging domain repositories in Flyover Country, a mobile app for geoscience outreach, data discovery, and visualization

该项目将继续开发一款名为“Flyover Country”（FC）的移动应用程序，该应用程序将在飞行、驾驶或徒步旅行时向用户提供相关兴趣点（POI）和地图数据的信息，无需机上 Wi-Fi，只需在用户登机前下载基于飞行路径的数据条即可。 GPS（全球定位系统）在飞行模式下运行，可实现精确的飞行跟踪，及时提示 POI 查看的相关性。每天大约有 450 万人乘坐飞机，FC 的潜在受众非常巨大，其在地球科学推广方面的潜力也是巨大的。该应用将在用户好奇心被激发的时刻，直接向用户提供高质量的地科信息，从而提高公众的科学素养，并激励和支持一代地球科学家的发展。 FC 还可以很容易地适用于 STEM 教育，并将构建为公开所有类型的地理空间地球科学数据提供平台，形成新的教育和研究基础设施。 Flyover Country (FC) 是一款用于地球科学推广和教育的开源 Android 和 iOS 移动应用程序。其主要特征是（1）划定旅行者感兴趣的区域（例如飞行路径、驾驶路线或徒步旅行路线）； (2) 通过对数据存储库的 API 调用，选择划定区域内的地理参考数据； (3) 将这些数据集缓存在用户的智能手机本地存储中； (4)当用户接近兴趣点(POI)时，位置感知服务对兴趣点(POI)进行曝光和推广。这里提出的工作将 FC 的功能扩展到地球科学研究界，作为一种数据发现工具，可以在现场轻松使用，以立即动态地为新测量提供上下文。地层和多元数据以及作者身份和来源网络的新颖可视化策略将进一步提高研究人员的效率。

This project will continue to develop a mobile app, Flyover Country (FC), that will bring information about relevant points of interest (POI) and map data to the user while flying, and also driving or hiking, without the need for in-flight Wi-Fi, by downloading a strip of data based on the flightpath before the user boards the plane. GPS (Global Positioning System), which functions in airplane mode, allows precise flight tracking, making prompts for POI viewing timely and relevant. With around 4.5 million people flying every day, the potential audience for FC is huge, as is its potential for geoscience outreach. The app will directly feed high-quality geoscience information to the user at the very point when curiosity is stimulated, and could thus improve public science literacy as well as inspiring and supporting the development of a generation of geoscientists. FC could also readily be adapted for use in STEM education, and will be structured so as to provide a platform for the exposure of all types of geospatial geoscience data, forming new infrastructure for education and research. Flyover Country (FC) is an open-source Android and iOS mobile application for geoscience outreach and education. Its key features are (1) delimitation of an area of interest to a traveler (e.g., a flight path, driving route, or hiking trail); (2) selection of georeferenced data within the delimited area via API calls to data repositories; (3) caching of these datasets on the user?s smartphone local storage; (4) exposure and promotion of points of interest (POI) by a location-aware service as the user approaches the POI. Work proposed here extends FC?s functionality to the geoscience research community as a data discovery tool that can be readily used in the field to instantly and dynamically provide context to new measurements. Novel visualization strategies for stratigraphic and multivariate data, as well as authorship and provenance networks, will further enhance researcher efficiency.