讲座题目：Location based information to support understanding of landscape futures

主讲人：Ian Bishop教授

主持人：象伟宁教授

开始时间：2014年3月3日（周一）下午1:30

讲座地址：闵行校区 资源与环境科学学院 一楼148室

主办单位：资环学院、科技处

报告人简介：

        Ian David Bishop，1979年获得澳大利亚墨尔本大学博士学位，1984年任墨尔本大学环境规划学院讲师，1988年晋升为副教授。2003年转到墨尔本大学测绘学系任教授，2010年至今任空间信息中心地理信息系统可视化协同研究中心的首席科学家。Ian Bishop博士长期致力于可视化、系统建模和综合、地表景观理解和环境决策支持的研究工作。

报告简介：

        We are entering a period of rapid change in such landscape shaping forces as climate, the demand for food and water, fire, the push towards renewable energy, and the transition to GM-based agriculture. As a result the landscape, which has traditionally been a point of stability for many people, is likely to change significantly. Can the technologies we have to hand, and their increasing ubiquity, assist people to better understand the forces leading to landscape change, comprehend the science of landscape, take a more informed view on proposals, and adapt to some inevitable outcomes? This paper considers the potential, in this context, of smart phones and other devices that are equipped with positioning and orientation devices, significant computational power and high-speed communications. We all travel through the landscape; sometimes we fly over. During these movements the possibility exists to entertain, and educate, people with information about the landscape through, or over, which they are travelling, to give them insights into the changes that have occurred historically and may occur in the future, the processes at work and the choices that exist. There are several ways to do this including audio commentary and augmented reality displays using the device camera coupled with visualized alternative conditions. A prototype iPhone App, called 'What's Here?' that includes augmented audio and visual features for landscape interpretation will be described, and illustrated with data related to climate change, renewable energy infrastructure, land use change and sea level rise. Associated data, technology and user issues will be discussed.