Applied geomatics

我提议的研究的主要目标是促进地理信息科学和技术的发展和应用，以解决从气候变化和农业到宽带无线电信到灾害管理和减灾等与环境和社会相关的研究问题。地理信息学是一个包括地理信息系统（GIS）、全球定位系统（GPS）、遥感（RS）、地图学、大地测量学和摄影测量学在内的多学科领域，目前的产业规模为670亿美元/年。在过去的几年里，地理信息技术已经成熟，该领域的重点已经从软件开发转向应用。应用领域中的概念和技术可以为具有地理空间成分的任何研究工作做出贡献。一个次要目标是确定如何最好地将复杂的地理信息分析结果传达给公众和政策制定者，利用科学可视化，特别是研究地理信息与3D逼真可视化的结合。研究方法是发展新的地理信息学方法和技术，这些方法和技术适合于增加知识以及继续增加若干研究主题的知识的方法和手段。我的研究项目并不侧重于地理信息工程（开发和评估用于数据采集的专用硬件解决方案），而是侧重于将地理信息方法应用于许多科学领域的研究问题。这种方法必然是跨学科的，并在HQP培训中借鉴了众多研究人员的专业知识。

The main objective of my proposed research is to foster the development and applications of geomatics science and technologies to environmentally and socially relevant research questions that range from climate change and agriculture to broadband wireless telecommunications to disaster management and mitigation. Geomatics, today a 67$ billion/year industry,  is a multidisciplinary field that includes geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), remote sensing (RS), cartography cadastral surveying, geodesy and photogrammetry.     Geomatics technologies are mature and the focus of the field has changed from software development to applications in the last couple of years.  Concepts and techniques within the applied field can contribute to any research endeavor that has a geospatial component.  A sub-objective is to determine how best to communicate the results of the complex geomatics analyses to public and policy makers utilizing scientific visualization, in particular, research into the union of geomatics with 3D photorealistic visualization.   The research approach is to develop of new geomatics methodologies and techniques that are appropriate to add to knowledge and the ways and means of continuing to add to knowledge in  a number of research subject matters. My research program does not focus on geomatics engineering (the development and evaluation of specialized hardware solutions for data acquisition) but rather on the application of the geomatics approach to research questions within a number of scientific fields.  The approach is necessarily transdisiplinary and draws upon the expertiese of numerous researchers in the training of HQP.