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Geo-Spatial Technologies for Indiana Educators and Students

 

Satellite Imagery/Remote Sensing

Satellite Imagery and Remote Sensing Defined

Satellite imagery are pictures of the Earth taken from satellites orbiting the planet. The photography equipment used in satellite imagery relies upon light waves (both visible and non-visible by the human eye); therefore, the images convey information as perceived by the particular spectral band that the satellite utilizes. Interpreting these images to best relate the information is a learned technique referred to as remote sensing.

Lessons and Activities

Art and Scale

Earth as Art

Remote Sensing Lab (8-12) by Dr. Meredith Beilfuss, Butler University

Reources

Beautiful images of the Earth from NASA's Earth as Art web site : http://earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.htm

A view of the Earth as it rotates from day to night and back again: http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action?opt=-p

The United States Geological Survey provides a connection to satellite images depicting environmental change: http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontents

NASA provides a dynamic link to satellite images and data and short paragraph features (highlighting topics such as remote sensing, life on Earth, land, oceans...): http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides connections to weather and climate imagery and data: http://www.goes.noaa.gov/

The United States Geological Survey connects to gray-scale satellite images of the United States (and surroundings): http://terraserver.microsoft.com/

The College of Natural Resources GeoSpatial Sciences Teaching Lab has materials about the relationship between remote sensing and satellite imagery, by Bonnie Banner: http://www.nr.usu.edu/~bbanner/intrsgis/intrs.htm

Gateway to Astronaut Photos of the Earth