Combining GIS, GPS, and Electronic Total Stations (EDM) in Field and Environmental Sciences for the Undergraduate Science Curriculum

在本科科学课程中将 GIS、GPS 和电子全站仪 (EDM) 结合到野外科学和环境科学中

• 批准号: 9950822
• 负责人: Matthew Bampton
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Southern Maine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-07-15 至 2002-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9950822&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Combining; GIS; GPS; Electronic; Total

Global positioning systems (GPS) and electronic total stations (EDM) are essential field equipment for gathering spatial data for geographic information system (GIS) analysis. These tools are increasingly applied in a variety of research and professional activities by earth, environmental, and geographical scientists, but at present few undergraduate students outside surveying programs are exposed to the technologies. Training materials and applications developed by manufacturers are designed only to meet the needs of this specialist audience. Our objective is to employ Geometronics Spectra Precision EDMs, Trimble GPSs, and IBM laptops, in the development of a series of course modules that will significantly augment our existing multi-disciplinary field-based GIS curriculum. As such, this represents an adaptation and expansion of the efforts of others with NSF support as well as the adaptation of industrial and research applications for use by college students. The four innovative features of this project are: 1) integrating this equipment into the existing multi disciplinary science curriculum, teaching students to gather high quality data in the field using current technologies; 2) adapting manufacturer's published training materials and supporting technical literature for an undergraduate audience; 3) designing an adaptable field data recording methodology and documentation system integrating GPS and EDM to generate data for discipline-specific laboratory analysis; 4) developing software extensions and operational procedures to import data directly into the GIS software currently in use in our GIS laboratory. Regular bulletins are posted on our website, which include progress reports, a selection of the student projects produced in each of our four GIS classes, and a full set of our teaching materials for integrating EDM, GPS, and GIS as they are developed. Target audiences are undergraduates in the earth, environmental and geographic sciences, K-12 teachers working with the state geographic alliance, and non-matriculated students from the local professional communities.

全球定位系统（GPS）和电子总站（EDM）是用于收集地理信息系统（GIS）分析空间数据的重要现场设备。这些工具越来越多地应用于地球，环境和地理科学家的各种研究和专业活动中，但是目前，在测量计划外，很少有本科生接触到这些技术。制造商开发的培训材料和应用仅旨在满足该专业受众的需求。我们的目标是采用几何光谱精度EDM，Trimble GPS和IBM笔记本电脑，开发一系列课程模块，这些模块将大大增加我们现有的基于多学科的GIS GIS课程。 因此，这代表了其他人在NSF支持方面的改编和扩展，以及适应大学生使用的工业和研究申请。 该项目的四个创新功能是：1）将该设备集成到现有的多学科科学课程中，教学学生使用当前技术在现场收集高质量的数据； 2）适应制造商出版的培训材料并为本科受众提供支持的技术文献； 3）设计适应性的现场数据记录方法和文档系统，集成了GPS和EDM，以生成用于特定学科的实验室分析的数据； 4）开发软件扩展程序和操作程序，以将数据直接导入到我们的GIS实验室中目前正在使用的GIS软件中。 常规公告发布在我们的网站上，其中包括进度报告，我们四个GIS课程中每个GIS中每一个生产的学生项目的选择，以及我们在开发过程中整合EDM，GPS和GIS的完整教材。目标受众是地球，环境和地理科学的本科生，与州地理联盟合作的K-12教师以及来自当地专业社区的未招募学生。