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市举行的第41届宾厄姆顿地貌学年会(BGS)。该项目将促进初级科学家和研究生(包括任职人数不足的群体)的参与、会议后勤、特邀发言者的旅行支助和会议记录卷的出版。BGS被广泛认为是关注地貌学各种主题的领先国际会议。2010年BGS的主题是地理空间技术和地貌测绘，会议由南卡罗来纳大学的Allan James博士、北卡罗来纳大学的Stephen Walsh博士和内布拉斯加-奥马哈大学的Michael Bishop博士共同组织，将讨论现代测绘技术和地理空间分析在地貌学中的理论和应用。这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洞察，包括识别因果关系、过程力学、通过变化检测进行历史重建、多尺度分析和建模以及对能量和物质通量的评估。本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、用于增强和分类的图像融合、空间建模和分析方法(例如工具箱)。它将回顾地貌成因、外力、过程动力学和反馈机制的发展。通过对现代地貌测绘采取广泛的方法，该BGS将寻求预测和促进新一代地貌测绘和地理空间分析能力。地貌‘制图’的这一广阔前景将审查纳入现代交互数据库技术的潜力，如空间决策支持系统和基于网络的制图，并探索多尺度分析和现代数据存储、传播和可视化战略等概念。这次BGS将是第一次地貌学会议，将地貌测绘和地球空间技术领域作为一个综合主题加以讨论。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，并要求召开一次评估和传播信息的专题讨论会。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，因此将讨论对新发展的解释和可靠性。新的方法还允许地球科学家超越传统的地球表面测绘和建模。论文和海报将为一个快速发展的领域提供一个广泛的新的综合和整合，这个领域跨越地貌学内外的子领域。主要科学家邀请的论文将在会议前进行审查，并在会议纪录册和《地貌学》杂志的特刊上发表。在BGS的学期中，南加州大学将教授研究生研讨会，让学生参与对论文的批判性评估，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.