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