ISS EarthKAM:

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ISS EarthKAM

• Change Over Time with Photos from Space

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ISS EarthKAM

• A Presentation by Teon Edwards, TERC
• Overview of ISS EarthKAM
• Taking Images
• Exploring Images
• Change Over Time
• Participating in ISS EarthKAM

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Overview

• ISS EarthKAM NASA Education Program
• ISS EarthKAM flies a digital camera onboard the
  International Space Station.
• Students take their own photographs of Earth
  using that camera.
• Students explore the resulting photographs to
  enhance their studies of science, math,
  technology, geography, and more.

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ISS EarthKAM Images STS089.ESC.07154137
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ISS EarthKAM Images STS089.ESC.07182155
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ISS EarthKAM Images STS099.ESC.09083252
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ISS EarthKAM Images ISS003.ESC1.285123159
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ISS EarthKAM Images STS086.ESC.08162147
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Overview cont.

• ISS EarthKAM is completely free.
• ISS EarthKAM is very easy to join.
• All the materials, including the images, are
  publicly available on the ISS EarthKAM Web site
  www.earthkam.ucsd.edu
• The only portion of the site that is password
  protected is the SMOC pagesthe pages used to
  actually take the photographs from space.

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Taking Images

• Students take their own photos of Earth using a
  digital camera onboard the ISS.
• Identify an orbit to target.
• ? Valid in terms of Deadline in GMT
• ? Daylight over interesting areas
• Select an interesting location to target.
• ? Map, atlases, and other references
• ? Weather (Is it cloudy there?)
• Prepare and submit an image request.
• Orbit, Latitude and Longitude, GMT, Location
  Name, and Reason and Description
• ? Codeword
• Track the image request.

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Taking Images Map Page
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Exploring Images

• Students explore the photographs to enhance their
  studies of science, math, technology, geography,
  and more.

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Exploring ImagesChange Over Time

• Buenos Aires
• Change Over TimePairs of Images
• Existing Activities
• Datasystem

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Exploring Images Buenos Aires
STS089.ESC.07154137
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Buenos Aires cont. STS089.ESC.07154137
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Change Over Time Pairs of Images Namib Desert,
Namibia
ISS EarthKAM Student Image ISS008.ESC2.029101029 J
anuary 29, 2004 Image Source ISS
EarthKAM http//datasystem.earthkam.ucsd.edu
Space Shuttle Astronaut Image STS103-732-5 Decembe
r 25, 1999 Image Source Gateway to Astronaut
Photography of Earth http//eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop
/Clickmap/ default.htm
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Namib Desert, NamibiaZoom View

• ISS EarthKAM Student Image
• ISS008.ESC2.029101029
• January 29, 2004

Space Shuttle Astronaut Image STS103-732-5 Decembe
r 25, 1999
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Change Over Time Pairs of Images Pivot
Irrigation, Saudi Arabia

• ISS EarthKAM Student Image
• STS081.ESC.01002957
• January, 13 1997

Space Shuttle Astronaut Image STS038-89-71 Novembe
r 17, 1990
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Change Over TimePairs of Images Vegetation

• ISS003ESC1/283233948 (ISS EarthKAM October 11,
  2001)
• http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImage
  s/images_topic.php3?topiclifeimg_id6756

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Change Over Time Pairs of Images Cairo and
Nile River Delta, Egypt

• ISS EarthKAM Student Image
• ISS004.ESC2.066103655
• March 7, 2002

Gemini Astronaut Image GEM05-1-45778 August, 1965
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Existing Activities Change Over Time Cairo
ISS004.ESC2.066103655
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Existing Activities Earth Observatory

• http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/Biome/

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Vegetation-Related Earth Change Topic Examples

• Human-Induced Change
• Deforestation
• Agriculture
• Land use patterns
• Human settlement patterns
• Seasonal
• Long-Term Climate Change

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Participating in ISS EarthKAM

• Activities, educator guides, and images are all
  publicly available on the ISS EarthKAM Web site
  www.earthkam.ucsd.edu
• Full participation in the program involves
• ? Taking Your Own Images of Earth From Space
• ? Sharing Samples of Your Students Work with the
  Images
• Providing Feedback

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Registration Form

• In order to participate fully and take your own
  photographs of Earth from space, you must join
  the program using a simple online form.

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Datasystem

• http//datasystem.earthkam.ucsd.edu/
• Image Viewer Pages
• Metadata Page
• Maps of Image Area
• Geographic Search
• Feature Search
• Registration Form
• June 30th Flyby saturn.jpl.nasa.gov

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Image Sources

• ISS EarthKAM Image Datasystem
• http//datasystem.earthkam.ucsd.edu/
• NASA Visible Earth
• http//visibleearth.nasa.gov/
• Landsat
• http//www.landsat.org/index.html
• Earth Observatory
• http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

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Any Questions?

• Teon Edwards
• Teon_Edwards_at_TERC.edu
• ISS EarthKAM
• www.earthkam.ucsd.edu