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Getting started with Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry
Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry method uses overlapping images to create a 3D point cloud of an object or landscape. It can be applied to everything from fault scarps to landslides to topography. This ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Field Activity
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
EarthScope Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data:Structure from Motion
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Unit 2: Monitoring surface and groundwater supply in central and western US
In Unit 2, students learn how the techniques for water budgeting (covered in Unit 1) can be used to monitor both groundwater (High Plains Aquifer) and surface water (western mountain watershed) systems. Students ...

Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Gravity, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water supply/water resource evaluation, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Management and Policy, Geoscience:Hydrology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water , Groundwater , Water Conservation, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Land Use and Planning, Sustainability, Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather:Drought, Environmental Science
Resource Type: Activities, Course Module
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Quantitative Skills: Algebra, Units and Unit Conversions, Problem Solving:Equations, Spreadsheets, Geometry and Trigonometry:Cubes and Rectangular Solids, Graphs
EarthScope Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data: Data:GPS/GNSS, Geophysics GPS/GNSS, Gravity
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Unit 4: Comparing risks at different volcanoes
Students assess the risks from three different volcanoes based on the Risk Equation, Risk = Hazard x Value x Vulnerability. The three volcanoes--Fuego Guatemala, Rinjani Indonesia, and Moana Loa Hawaii--have ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
Resource Type: Activities, Course Module
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Quantitative Skills: Algebra, Problem Solving
Collection Source: GETSI
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Plate Tectonics: GPS Data, Boundary Zones, and Earthquake Hazards
Students work with high precision GPS data to explore how motion near a plate boundary is distributed over a larger region than the boundary line on the map. This allows them to investigate how earthquake hazard ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Structural Geology:Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards
Resource Type: Activities
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Quantitative Skills: Spreadsheets, Graphs
EarthScope Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data: Data:GPS/GNSS, Geophysics GPS/GNSS
Collection Source: EarthScope
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Topographic differencing: Earthquake along the Wasatch fault
After a big earthquake happens people ask, 'Where did the earthquake occur? How big was it? What type of fault was activated?' We designed an undergraduate laboratory exercise in which students learn how ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:GIS/Mapping/Field Techniques, Tectonic Geomorphology, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
EarthScope Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data:Lidar
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Visualizing Relationships with Data: Exploring plate boundaries with Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and GPS Data in the Western U.S. & Alaska | Lessons on Plate Tectonics
Learners use the GPS Velocity Viewer, or the included map packet to visualize relationships between earthquakes, volcanoes, and plate boundaries as a jigsaw activity.

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geoscience, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Activities
Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
Quantitative Skills: Models and Modeling, Vectors and Matrices, Estimation
EarthScope Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data: Data:GPS/GNSS, Geophysics GPS/GNSS
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Unit 4: Groundwater, GPS, and Water Resources
GPS data can measure ground elevation change in response to the changing amount of groundwater in valleys and snow cover in mountains. In this module, students will learn how to read GPS data to interpret how the ...

Subject: Geography:Geospatial, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water supply/water resource evaluation, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Groundwater , Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity
Resource Type: Activities, Course Module
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Quantitative Skills: Probability and Statistics:Data Trends, Units and Unit Conversions, Problem Solving, Arithmetic/Computation, Spreadsheets, Graphs
EarthScope Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data: Data:GPS/GNSS, Geophysics GPS/GNSS
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Working with Point Clouds in CloudCompare and Classifying with CANUPO
This exercise will walk you through 1) basic operations and use in CloudCompare, and 2) use of an Open-Source plugin in CloudCompare called CANUPO (http://nicolas.brodu.net/en/recherche/canupo/) that allows for ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
EarthScope Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data:Lidar, Structure from Motion
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Episodic tremor and slip: The Case of the Mystery Earthquakes | Lessons on Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes in western Washington and Oregon are to be expected—the region lies in the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Offshore, the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate subducts under the North American plate, from northern California to British Columbia. The region, however, also experiences exotic seismicity— Episodic Tremor and Slip (ETS).In this lesson, your students study seismic and GPS data from the region to recognize a pattern in which unusual tremors--with no surface earthquakes--coincide with jumps of GPS stations. This is ETS. Students model ductile and brittle behavior of the crust with lasagna noodles to understand how properties of materials depend on physical conditions. Finally, they assemble their knowledge of the data and models into an understanding of ETS in subduction zones and its relevance to the millions of residents in Cascadia.

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Seismology, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Hazards, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Coastal Hazards:Tsunami, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Activities
Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
Quantitative Skills: Vectors and Matrices, Arithmetic/Computation, Graphs
EarthScope Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data: Data:GPS/GNSS, Seismic, Geophysics GPS/GNSS, Seismic
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Unit 3: What's in YOUR watershed?
In this unit, students investigate water resources of their own area or another area of personal interest, which typically gets them very excited. They apply their knowledge from Units 1 and 2 to identify the water ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Gravity
Resource Type: Activities, Course Module
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Quantitative Skills: Spreadsheets, Graphs
EarthScope Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data: Data:GPS/GNSS, Geophysics GPS/GNSS, Gravity
Collection Source: GETSI
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