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EarthKAM Presentation

Join Cypress Falls High School students from Houston, TX, as they embark on remote sensing expeditions with EarthKAM. Dissect astronaut-taken photos to identify shot type, orientation, patterns, colors, landforms, and place names.

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EarthKAM Presentation

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  1. EarthKAM Presentation Cypress Falls High School Houston, TX

  2. Remote sensing and the Geographer’s Eye Astronaut taking a photo from space.

  3. Astronauts on the ‘station’ set up the camera in a special window.

  4. TDRS DomSat Station Image Data (Ku-Band) + Control Files & Telemetry (Ku-Band) Image Data, Control Files TDRS Ground Station White Sands, NM JPL Pasadena, CA Camera Control Files Image Data UCSD San Diego, CA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX Image Routing

  5. During EarthKam missions students take remote sensing photos of places on Earth such as the Aral Sea

  6. Recognizable features?? • Using a photo you have taken, • analyze the image with • these questions. • 1. Type of shot? • 2. Orientation? • 3. What patterns/colors • do you see? • 4. What landforms are • recognizable? • 5. Names of places? • Name of regions • /countries in photo? Gray area Wavy line Straight lines Dark and light blue

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