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| | | | | | | What is Eduspace?
The Eduspace website aims to provide secondary school students and teachers with a learning and teaching tool. It is meant to be an entry point for space image data, and, in particular, to a widespread visibility of Earth observation applications for education and training.
The Eduspace website encourages teachers to use Earth observation data in their curriculum by providing ready-made projects. It is rich in didactical material, especially in local and global remote sensing satellite data. It is a source of ideas about how to introduce space-related matters into the classroom, where full scale examples are also presented.
About Earth from Space
This section provides high spatial resolution imagery acquired over the major cities and landscapes of the Earth. It aims to stimulate students and teachers to look at imagery obtained by Earth observation satellites, find their hometown and maybe even their school. Teachers and students are invited to work with this data by studying the various exercises provided in the different case studies. An objective of these case studies is to inspire schools to produce similar reports related to their own region.
About Environmental Issues
This section is divided into 3 sub-themes: Weather and climate, Global change, and Disaster monitoring.
The aim of the ‘Weather and climate’ section is to stimulate students and teachers to look at the meteorology images and find out everything they can about the weather in the region they live in. Schools are invited to work with this data using the suggestions given in the projects. The case studies provided should be used as guidance and inspiration. You will find both still and moving Meteosat sequences, providing a spectacular demonstration of day-to-day and seasonal weather.
The Global change sub-theme looks at phenomena affecting land, oceans, and the atmosphere. Deforestation, a human-made process that is changing the Earth both on a local and regional level, the monitoring of ocean temperatures and of the atmosphere are studied in detail.
The ‘Disaster monitoring’ section looks at how Earth observation can be used not only to detect and monitor disaster areas, but also to assess the damage, once the event is over. It also provides vital information for those in charge of planning and executing relief and rescue operations, as well as for the authorities in charge of examining compensation rights claimed by people suffering the consequences of catastrophic events.
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