Week 8: Monitoring Fires
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Download Geographic Data About Fires
Launch My World and Open the Aspen Fire Project
Explore the Data Layers of the Aspen Fire Project
The Aspen Fire
MODIS True and False Color Images
Investigate Attribute Tables in the Aspen Fire Project
Use Fire Data to Review My World Basics
In this first section of Week 8, you'll review some of the basic GIS skills you have learned, including turning layers on and off, zooming and panning within them, and working with the data tables linked to the map.
Download Geographic Data About Fires
- Right-click (Win) or control-click (Mac) the link below to download the zipped file.
AspenFireMW.zip (Zip Archive 19.8MB Jun13 10) - Unzip the file. In the folder will be a project called AspenFireMW.m3vz will be created.
- Move the entire AspenFireMW folder into the Data folder inside the MyWorld folder. (Path: .../MyWorld/data/AspenFireMW.m3vz)
Launch My World and Open the Aspen Fire Project
- Launch My World by double-clicking its icon on your desktop or by clicking its icon in the Dock (Mac) or Launch Bar (Win).
- Choose File > Open Project..., navigate to My World/data/AspenFireMW.m3vz, select the AspenFireMW.m3vz file, and click Open.
- When the project opens, the base map displays a satellite image of Earth.
The image is part of the Blue Marble collection at NASA. It is a composite generated from several different types of data. Much of the data comes from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument, a remote sensing device on the Terra satellite. Latitude and longitude lines are visible on top of the image.
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Explore the Data Layers of the Aspen Fire project
- Scroll down to the bottom of the Layer List and turn on the Countries layer.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the Layer List.
- Turn on the Countries layer by clicking the box to the right of its name.