High Resolution Environment Satellite Image Receiving Station

我们请求拨款购买和建立一个地面站，用于接收来自环境卫星的高分辨率图像。该站将用于几个科学领域（最初是物理学和生态学）和几个层次，从入门课程到本科研究。它还将用于中学教师和学生的外展研究计划。科学课。最初，我们将在PHY 220现代物理和BIO 402生态学中使用该站，物理学生将从卫星上收集图像并使用它们为生态学学生准备信息产品。然后，生态学的学生将做两个项目：一个是气象学项目，他们将从卫星红外图像中获得密歇根湖的地表水温度，并将其与浮标数据进行对比；另一个是植被项目，他们将使用NDVI（归一化植被指数）技术，通过评估叶绿素的变化来跟踪秋季密歇根州的植被模式变化。本科研究。我们将开发生物学和物理学的本科研究项目，利用多光谱HRPT和VISSR图像所固有的巨大范围的可能性。拓展。我们将利用卫星接收站进行外展计划，让中学教师和学生参与高分辨率图像的无障碍研究活动。我们在高中老师和他们的学生中成功地进行了这种类型的研究。

9451257 Gibson We request funding to purchase and establish an earth station for receiving high resolution images from the environmental satellites. The station would be used in several areas of the sciences (initially physics and ecology) and at several levels, from introductory classes to undergraduate research. It would also be used in an outreach research program for secondary teachers and students. Science Classes. Initially we would use the station in PHY 220 Modern Physics and BIO 402 Ecology, where the physics students would collect images from the satellites and use them to prepare information products for the ecology students. The ecology students would then do two projects: a meteorology project, where they would obtain Lake Michigan surface water temperatures from the satellite infra red images and ground-truth them against buoy data, and a vegetation project, where they would use NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) techniques to follow changing vegetation patterns in the state of Michigan during the fall by assessing chlorophyll changes. Undergraduate Research. We would develop undergraduate research projects in both biology and physics, taking advantage of the very large range of possibilities inherent in the multi-spectral HRPT and VISSR images. Outreach. We would use the satellite receiving station in an outreach program to involve secondary school teachers and students in accessible research activities with the high resolution images. We have a record of success with this type of research involvement with the high school teachers and their students.