Making NASA earth observing system satellite data accessible to the K-12 and citizen scientist communities

Author

Moore, Susan W. ; Phelps, Carrie S. ; Chambers, Lin H.

Author_Institution

Sci. Appl. Int. Corp., Hampton, VA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

20-24 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

1961

Abstract

The Atmospheric Sciences Data Center (ASDC) at NASA Langley Research Center houses over 700 data sets related to Earth\´s radiation budget, clouds, aerosols and tropospheric chemistry. The "Mentoring and inquiry using NASA Data on Atmospheric and Earth science for Teachers and Amateurs" (MY NASA DATA) project has been established to systematically support educational activities at all levels of formal and informal education by reducing these large data holdings to "microsets" that can be easily explored and understood by the K-12 and the amateur scientist communities.

Keywords

aerosols; clouds; computer aided instruction; geophysics computing; physics education; troposphere; ASDC; Atmospheric Sciences Data Center; Earth radiation budget; K-12 scientist community; MY NASA DATA; NASA Langley Research Center; NASA earth observing system satellite data; aerosols; amateur scientist community; citizen scientist community; clouds; earth science; educational institutions; geophysics computing; geophysics education; large data holdings; microsets; systematically support educational activity; tropospheric chemistry; Aerosols; Chemistry; Clouds; Earth Observing System; Educational activities; Educational institutions; Geoscience; NASA; Satellites; Variable speed drives;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8742-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1370729

Filename

1370729