Tassia Owen

Tassia.owen@nasa.gov

OUTLINE

1. Introduction 1. Introduction

2. What is the Earth Observatory?2. What is the Earth Observatory?

3. What is NEO?3. What is NEO?

4. NEO Workshop & Tutorial 4. NEO Workshop & Tutorial

5. Conclusion5. Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

Technology is an everyday thing in our lives

What is the Earth Observatory and what does

it have to do with NEO?

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

•Image of the Day

•Features

•Natural Hazards

•Global Maps

Global Maps

Global Maps Animations

Makes Suggestions for Related Data Sets and Provides

Information

WHAT IS NEO?• NASA Earth Observations (NEO)

– A collection of current global NASA satellite data imagery that

can be easily accessed and utilized by a variety of users and

applications.

– Addresses the needs of data users who do not posses the

expertise or tools to handle raw data.

• Target Audiences

– Formal & informal educators– Museums & Science Centers– Science communicators– Citizen scientists

NEO IN THE CLASSROOM• As a tool NEO can be used in different subjects pertaining the Earth

Science Class.

• Subjects like:

A) Maps as a tool

B) Earth’s Atmosphere Exploration

C) Weather Effects

D) Water Temperature

E) Topography

F) Oceanography

G) Satellites and Remote Sensing

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVE

• empower formal and informal educators with tools that will

enrich their teaching experience and curriculum.

• Gain awareness of the NASA Earth Observations or NEO site

(http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/Search.html)

Let’s take a tour of NEOLet’s take a tour of NEO

Analyzing Data

• Website:

http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/Search.html

• An example,

• Go to –

> Oceans

> Chlorophyll Concentration

• Click on, Analyze this image

• What do you see?

• Can you understand it by itself?

Would it make more sense to

compare it with something else?

• Fore example, go to –

> Oceans

> Sea Surface Temperature

(Make sure Dates and instrument

Match what you chose for

Chlorophyl!)

• Click on, Analyze this image

• Click on, Configure/Launch

analysis

• >Click on, Launch analysis • (You can download the datasets and

do the analysis on your classroom

without the need of a internet

connection by clicking the download

button and following the directions)

• Focus on a place?

Select – Zoom & Roam

(optional, can be useful

for place-based

education)

• >Select – Plot transect

• What relationship do you see here between

chlorophyll concentration and sea surface

temperature?

• Why does chlorophyll go down when sea surface

temperature goes up?

• What else would you compare?

Questions?