This activity has been developed as a resource for the "EU Space Awareness" educational programme. As part of the suite "Our Fragile Planet" together with the "Climate Box" it addresses aspects of weather phenomena, the Earth's climate and climate change as well as Earth observation efforts like in the European "Copernicus" programme. In this activity, students investigate how satellite images obtained at different wavelengths help to identify Earth surface features like vegetation and open water areas by using a specially designed software package, LEO Works. Students inspect and analyse real satellite data to produce colour images and maps of spectral indices and learn how to interpret them and their uses.
@article{arxiv.1709.00909,
title = {A View From Above},
author = {Markus Nielbock},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.00909},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
13 pages, 21 figures. This resource was developed in the framework of Space Awareness. Space Awareness is funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Programme under grant agreement no. 638653. Accepted by AstroEDU