RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT REMOTE SENSING
Contact Information: Researcher-Teacher Partnership (Remote Sensing Group)
Peder Nelson
Sr. Faculty Research
Peder.Nelson@oregonstate.edu
Assistant
more information:
Laboratory for Applications
people.oregonstate.edu/~nelsonpe/education.html
of Remote Sensing in
Ecology (LARSE)
Department of Forest
(~ is typed with Shift and the key to the left of the
Ecosystems and Society
number 1.)
Oregon State University
Joan Swafford
Jefferson Middle School
jswafford08@gmail.com
Jeanine Hemel
Molalla River Middle School hemelj@molallariv.k12.or.us
ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM/ REFLECTANCE RESOURCES
http://missionscience.nasa.gov/ems/01_intro.html
NASA – Mission: Science
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_games/spectra/makeGrating.htm
How to make a cereal box spectrometer
http://orbitingfrog.com/post/3424277218/make-your-own-spectrometer
How to make a spectrometer with a paper tube (I like this one better)
http://www.physicslessons.com/demos.html
demos for light and electricity concepts
http://www.design-your-homeschool.com/light-experiments.html
homeschool resources for light experiments
http://mwmw.gsfc.nasa.gov/mmw_product.html
poster of milky way wavelengths
http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/handouts/constellations/activities/bingo.pdf
electromagnetic spectrum bingo
http://landsat.usgs.gov/tools_viewer.php
See how the reflectance bands change when you add various vegetation, minerals, etc.
SATELLITE HISTORY
http://www.oneonta.edu/faculty/baumanpr/geosat2/RS%20History%20II/RS-History-Part-2.html
Includes early military uses of reconnaissance.
http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/history.html
Landsat science history from NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/landsat/news/landsat-40th.html
Information about the LandSat missions, including the launch of the new Landsat Data Continuity Mission satellite in
February, 2013.
PHOTOS, VIDEOS, AND REMOTE IMAGES
http://eros.usgs.gov/imagegallery/
Images formerly known as “Earth as Art”
http://www.nasaimages.org/
videos and stills of all sorts of subjects: space shuttle clips, Hubble images
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/landsat/news/40th-changepairs.html
City change pairs – compare early Landsat images with current images
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/546160main_ESS5_World-of-Change_C2.pdf
A World of Change: Set of Lessons: LESSON DESCRIPTION -- These activities will introduce students to Earth’s remote sensing
tools and changes observed from space over time.
http://climate.nasa.gov/sof/
State of Flux – pairs of images of ice, cities, extreme events, human impact, water, and land cover.
http://climate.nasa.gov/GlobalIceViewer/index.cfm
Global Ice Viewer – stunning short videos of the major glaciated areas of the world, and stats on their demise.
LANDSAT FLYBY VIDEO
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html
Landsat: Looking at Earth’s Surface – flyby that we used as an introduction; on Youtube, look up “NASA A LandSat Flyby”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZx1xmNGcXI
NASA A LandSat Fly By – dramatic video about the basic mission of the LandSat project. 1:43
OUR PRESENTATION: “OSTA 2012 PRESENTATION”
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19mxyEI6HYD57D0220sNykhs2o_WHDSaXuHeyKj52q84/edit#slide=id.g207bff16_4_
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