High Resolution Environment Satellite Image Receiving Station

9451257吉布森我们请求提供资金，以购买和建立一个地面站，用于接收环境卫星的高分辨率图像。 该空间站将用于多个科学领域（最初是物理学和生态学）和多个层次，从入门课程到本科生研究。它还将用于中学教师和学生的推广研究方案。 科学课。最初，我们将在物理220现代物理和生物402生态学中使用该站，物理学生将从卫星收集图像，并使用它们为生态学学生准备信息产品。生态学的学生将做两个项目：一个气象学项目，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地面实况对比;一个植被项目，他们将使用归一化植被指数（归一化差异植被指数）技术，通过评估叶绿素变化来跟踪秋季密歇根州不断变化的植被模式。 本科研究。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图像中固有的非常大的可能性。 外展我们将利用卫星接收站的推广计划，使中学教师和学生参与高分辨率图像的无障碍研究活动。我们有一个成功的记录与这种类型的研究参与与高中教师和他们的学生。

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.