The Air Temperature Observation in Local City as Education Resources

Author

Takemata, Kazuya ; Naoe, Nobuyuki ; Minamide, Akiyuki ; Kawata, Yoshiyuki

Author_Institution

Kanazawa Inst. of Technol., Kanazawa

fYear

2006

fDate

July 31 2006-Aug. 4 2006

Firstpage

1007

Lastpage

1010

Abstract

In this study, we measured the air temperature and humidity in the vicinity of Kenrokuen Park in the center of Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. There are 44 schools within a 7km radius of the park, each of which has an instrument shelter in its yard. We installed a thermometer- hygrometer with a data logger in each instrument shelter. The purpose of the observations was to demonstrate the correlation between the ASTER surface temperatures (ASTER level 2B product) and our observed temperatures. We decided to use our observational data not only for comparison with the satellite data but also for environmental education. Therefore, we developed educational material for the thermal environment of Kanazawa City using our observational data.

Keywords

atmospheric humidity; atmospheric temperature; data loggers; hygrometers; remote sensing; thermometers; ASTER surface temperatures; Ishikawa Prefecture; Japan; Kanazawa City; Kenrokuen Park; air temperature observation; atmospheric humidity; data logger; satellite data; thermal environmental education; thermometer-hygrometer; Cities and towns; Earth; Educational institutions; Humidity measurement; Instruments; Land surface temperature; Remote sensing; Satellites; Temperature measurement; Thermal pollution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2006. IGARSS 2006. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9510-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2006.259

Filename

4241406