项目编号: | 1550913
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项目名称: | Collaborative Research: Leveraging domain repositories in Flyover Country, a mobile app for geoscience outreach, data discovery, and visualization |
作者: | Amy Myrbo
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承担单位: | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
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批准年: | 2017
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开始日期: | 2017-01-15
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结束日期: | 2019-12-31
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资助金额: | 538044
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资助来源: | US-NSF
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项目类别: | Continuing grant
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国家: | US
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语种: | 英语
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特色学科分类: | Geosciences - Earth Sciences
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英文关键词: | geoscience outreach
; flyover country
; researcher efficiency
; high-quality geoscience information
; novel visualization strategy
; datum repository
; ios mobile application
; multivariate datum
; poi
; data discovery tool
; geospatial geoscience datum
; map datum
; geoscience research community
; fc
; georeferenced datum
; mobile app
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英文摘要: | 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. |
资源类型: | 项目
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标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/90622
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Appears in Collections: | 全球变化的国际研究计划 科学计划与规划
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Recommended Citation: |
Amy Myrbo. Collaborative Research: Leveraging domain repositories in Flyover Country, a mobile app for geoscience outreach, data discovery, and visualization. 2017-01-01.
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