High Resolution Environment Satellite Image Receiving Station

9451257吉布森我们要求提供资金购买和建立一个地面站，用于接收环境卫星提供的高分辨率图像。该空间站将用于几个科学领域(最初是物理和生态)和几个层面，从入门课程到本科生研究。它还将用于一个面向中学教师和学生的外展研究项目。科学课。最初，我们将使用PHY 220现代物理和BIO 402生态学的空间站，在那里，物理学生将从卫星上收集图像，并使用它们为生态专业的学生准备信息产品。然后，生态专业的学生将完成两个项目：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表面水温，并根据浮标数据进行地面实况调查；另一个是植被项目，在该项目中，他们将使用NDVI(归一化差异植被指数)技术，通过评估叶绿素的变化来跟踪密歇根州秋季植被模式的变化。本科生研究。我们将开发生物学和物理学的本科生研究项目，利用多光谱HRPT和VISSR图像固有的非常广泛的可能性。外展。我们将在一个推广项目中使用卫星接收站，让中学教师和学生参与到使用高分辨率图像的可访问的研究活动中。我们在与高中教师和他们的学生进行这种类型的研究参与方面取得了成功的记录。

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.