Going Further
Variations
Some additional combinations of NEO datasets to explore include the following:
- Net Radiation, Snow Cover and Solar Insolation
- Sea Surface Temperature and Net Primary Productivity
- Sea Surface Temperature and Water Vapor
- Reflected Short Wave Radiation and Cloud Cover (cirrus or total)
- Sea Ice and Snow Cover over the course of a season
- Solar Insolation (incoming radiation) and Reflected Short Wave Radiation
- Sea Surface Temperature, Water Vapor, Outgoing Long Wave Radiation, and leaf cover for summer versus winter in the Northern Hemisphere
Rainforests at a Crossroads NEO exercise #3—Limits to Plant Growth—explores the relationship between Solar Insolation, Land Surface Temperature and Rainfall.
Other Tools
Import and overlay some of the NEO datasets into Google Earth.
Related Case Studies
Other EET chapters that utilize ImageJ as a tool and satellite imagery as a data source include the following:
- Annotating Change in Satellite Images—Use time-series images to produce a map documenting land use changes in China.
- Analyzing the Antarctic Ozone Hole—Measure and graph the area of depleted ozone from Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) images.
- Measuring Distance and Area in Satellite Images—Use ImageJ to quantify change over time in satellite images.
- Shrinking Forest - Growing Problem—Use time-series Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images to create a color composite image showing the oldest to most recently deforested areas in the Amazon rainforest.
- Whither Arctic Sea Ice?—Animate thirty years of sea ice images, measure the ice extent each year, and then graph and analyze the results.
