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，它将通过在用户登机前下载基于飞行路径的条状数据，向用户提供有关飞行、驾车或徒步旅行时的相关兴趣点(POI)和地图数据的信息，而不需要飞行中的Wi-Fi。GPS(全球定位系统)在飞机模式下运行，允许精确的航班跟踪，为及时和相关的POI查看提供提示。由于每天约有450万人乘坐飞机，FC的潜在受众是巨大的，其在地球科学推广方面的潜力也是如此。这款APP将在好奇心被激发的时候直接向用户提供高质量的地学信息，从而提高公众的科学素养，激励和支持一代地球科学家的发展。FC也可以很容易地用于STEM教育，其结构将为各种类型的地球空间地球科学数据的公开提供一个平台，形成新的教育和研究基础设施。Fliover Country(FC)是一个开源的Android和iOS移动应用程序，用于地学推广和教育。它的主要功能是(1)划定旅行者感兴趣的区域(例如，飞行路线、行驶路线或徒步旅行路线)；(2)通过对数据仓库的API调用在划定的区域内选择地理参考数据；(3)在用户上缓存这些数据集？S智能手机本地存储；(4)当用户接近兴趣点(POI)时，通过位置感知服务来暴露和推广POI。本文提出的工作将FC？S功能扩展到地学研究社区，作为一种数据发现工具，可以随时在现场使用，为新的测量提供即时和动态的上下文。地层和多变量数据以及作者和出处网络的新可视化战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.