浅析低空地理学的特征及其对地理学的拓展

Views on characters of low-altitude airspace geography and its impact on the geography development

地理学是一个由众多分支组成的学科体系,学科交叉是其学科特性。无人机应用的快速发展使得低空开发和低空经济进入地理学的研究视野,并在地理学研究实践中与其他学科产生了大量的交叉融合。近年来,社会经济发展需求推动了地理学将低空纳入其研究对象体系中,拓展了地理学的研究内容。这是一项需求牵引、充满挑战、艰巨而又全新的工作。本文认为低空是一个复杂巨系统,作为地理学的研究对象从理论上具有综合性和区域性两大地理学特征,具备采用地理学理论和方法进行低空研究的科学基础和依据。应用地理学进行低空研究的发展趋势是与航空学、信息地理学、自然地理学和人文地理学等学科的深度交叉、渗透、融合。在分析低空研究与上述学科关系的基础上,本文尝试性地提出未来地理学视角下低空研究体系的初步布局。本文抛砖引玉,期望在一定程度上推动地理学界同仁进一步关注低空开发和低空经济发展,促进地理学在新时期发展,满足实践需求,形成新的学术增长点。

Geography,as part of earth science,is a complicated system composed of multiple disciplines.Interdisciplinary studies are the significant characters of geography.With the rapid development of low-altitude airspace exploitation such as the application of UAV,low-altitude airspace has become a subject of research field of geography.Recently,there are many interdisciplinary studies and integration between geography and aeronautics.However,it is a difficult and innovative task to take the low-altitude airspace as a fixed research object of geography and develop it into a branch of geography named low-altitude airspace geography.In this paper,we consider the low-altitude airspace as a complex giant system,which has two geographical characteristics of synthesis and regionalism.Herewith,low-altitude airspace is a research object of geography in theory,which is the basis of generation of low-altitude airspace geography.The development trend of low-altitude airspace geography is to deeply conduct interdisciplinary studies with aeronautics,physical geography,human geography,information geography.On the basis of analyzing the relationship between low-altitude airspace geography and the above-mentioned disciplines,we tentatively proposed the preliminary layout of the discipline system of low-altitude airspace geography,which is composed of integrated low-altitude airspace geography,departmental low-altitude airspace geography and low-altitude airspace information geography.This paper aims to promote the development of low-altitude geography as a new academic growth point of geography to some extent.