Integrating geography with physics and visual arts: Analysis of student essays

The article investigates the potential and challenges of integrating geography with other school subjects. The analysis is based on the outcomes of a course that introduced the principles of discipline-based integration. The course was included in multicultural-class teacher education programme at the University of Helsinki. For a project within the course, the students worked in small groups and made short films that integrated three subjects – geography, physics, and visual arts – in order to evoke questions of space in children's minds. The students were asked to write essays in which they analysed their understanding of space from the three subjects’ viewpoints, describe the aims and contents of their short films, and lastly reflect on their experiences of the potential and possible problems in discipline integration. In this article, the authors analyse the students’ experience of the integration between the geography, physics, and visual arts. In general, the students experienced discipline-based integration as an interesting way of working. Moreover, the project seemed to deepen their understanding of different grounds for integrative pedagogy. Although the students reported some difficulties regarding the subject knowledge required for fruitful integration, the process enabled them to construct a better understanding of the identity of each discipline.     

Harveys and Walking Maps

Abstract

Geographical information is connected to everyday life in many ways. Web cartography has made geospatial data more available to the public. In the next few years, the average age of the population will be over 51 years, with more than 15% of the population over the age of 65 years. The fact that the senior population is increasing suggests that online mapping and map viewer design should be aware of the senior population’s visual restrictions, as well as restrictions of other potential map users, including colour-vision-impaired users. This paper describes the senior population’s visual restrictions that can be compared with colour-vision-impaired users and provides guidelines with regard to online mapping and map viewer design for this growing segment of the elderly population.     

Motion of animated streamlets appears to surpass their graphical alterations in human visual detection of vector field maxima

ABSTRACT

Animations have become a frequently utilized illustration technique on maps but changes in their graphical loading remain understudied in empirical geovisualization and cartographic research. Animated streamlets have gained attention as an illustrative animation technique and have become popular on widely viewed maps. We conducted an experiment to investigate how altering four major animation parameters of animated streamlets affects people’s reading performance of field maxima on vector fields. The study involved 73 participants who performed reaction-time tasks on pointing maxima on vector field stimuli. Reaction times and correctness of answers changed surprisingly little between visually different animations, with only a few occasional statistical significances. The results suggest that motion of animated streamlets is such a strong visual cue that altering graphical parameters makes only little difference when searching for the maxima. This leads to the conclusion that, for this kind of a task, animated streamlets on maps can be designed relatively freely in graphical terms and their style fitted to other contents of the map. In the broader visual and geovisual analytics context, the results can lead to more generally hypothesizing that graphical loading of animations with continuous motion flux could be altered without severely affecting their communicative power.     

电法在秦岭钼多金属矿区找盲应用

本文以电法在秦岭某钼多金属矿区寻找深部盲矿的应用为例,介绍了电法勘查方法应用效果,说明物探资料在地球物理前提条件具备时,可以为矿区设计和开发生产过程提供重要的信息和依据,在相似地区深部找矿和寻找盲矿体具有一定借鉴意义。     

重磁三维自动反演软件系统的分析与设计

由于三维反演计算非常耗时,导致目前的重磁三维自动反演系统的工作方式效率低。为了改善工作效率和提高反演结果的质量,提出实时可视化自动反演方式,设计并开发了一个重磁三维实时可视化反演系统。该系统在三维反演计算的过程中,将中间反演结果同时进行成图可视化,使得工作人员能及时分析和评价中间反演结果并能修改参数,以此来介入和引导复杂的反演过程,快速有效地得到比较理想的反演结果。该系统具有实时性、交互性和引导性特点。对该系统进行了分析和设计,并给出了其中的关键技术与设计方案。     

铜坑矿锌多金属矿体三维可视化模型构建

构建矿体三维可视化模型对指导资源优化开采具重要意义。利用3DMine软件对铜坑矿锌多金属矿体钻孔勘探数据进行整理和分析,构建了矿山地表地形、矿体赋存状态及井巷工程布置等三维可视化模型。     

一种高效的三维GIS数据库引擎设计与实现

针对大规模三维城市建模与数据库协同应用,设计实现了一种高效的三维GIS数据库引擎,支持基于Oracle 11g的多模式数据库管理;提出了顾及语义的三维空间数据库模型,为地上下室内外三维空间数据的一体化组织管理奠定了基础。介绍了该引擎涉及的多层次三维空间索引、多级缓存、多线程调度以及异步通信传输等关键技术,并用武汉市三维城市模型数据进行了试验分析,验证了该引擎的有效性和可靠性。     

基于GIS的雷电数据可视化地图组件设计与实现

雷电发生发展于地理空间,具有明显的时空特性,因此在地理信息平台的支持下进行各种雷电数据空间及其属性特征分析具有重要的意义。在ArcEngine的基础上,设计研发了雷电数据可视化地图组件（Thunder Map）,按照数据定义层、数据功能层以及地图UI层的3层逻辑结构,实现了各种雷电相关数据基于地理信息平台的可视化表达,并提供了相关数据管理与功能分析的操作接口,为基于地理空间信息的雷电数据处理提供可视化的功能组件支持。     

浅谈如何提高目测抓球精度

通过对使用“特征视角”目测气球方法的阐述、分析,得出提高目测抓球精度的关键在于“量化”．如果能将目标物视角的大部分测量估算工作进行量化、减小目标物视角的估测余量,就能显著地提高目测抓球精度。     

轨道交通线路图的站点符号表达对信息搜索速率的影响分析

轨道交通线路图是一种广泛应用于交通运输网络的新图形,它在出行中具有不可替代的作用。本文选取上海城市轨道交通线路图中7种有代表性的站点符号表达形式,采用时间统计和定量分析的方法,以站点符号的色彩、线型、尺寸和几何形态等四类要素,对用户测试时视觉搜索速率的影响作了分析。结果表明,对轨道交通体系的熟悉程度越高,信息搜索速率越...