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The colours of climate change
Organization(s):Liceo Scientifico S. Cantone
Country:Italy
Student(s):Acunzo Gabriele
Capone Maxim
Carotenuto Pasquale
Conetta Matteo
Cortese Andrea
D'Alisa Flavia
D'Angelo Chiara
Esposito Emanuela
Inner Mario
Latorella Christian
Masini Marcello
Olivetta Mariarca
Palmese Ludovica
Romano Christian
Sebeto Luigi
Tafuro Maria
Vecchione Giuseppe
Vigliotti Maria Pia
Viserta Vittoria
Grade Level:Secondary School (grades 9-12, ages 14-18)
GLOBE Educator(s):Rosanna Busiello
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Report Type(s):International Virtual Science Symposium Report
Protocols:Biometry (including Tree Height), Carbon Cycle, Green-Up / Green-Down, Earth As a System
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Language(s):English
Date Submitted:2024-02-11
On the earth’s surface, different colours represent different land types and different developments of biodiversity. In particular, vegetation appears as shades of green from pale for grasslands to dark for forests while Spectrally resolved NDVI (The normalized difference vegetation index) is a simple, but effective index for quantifying green vegetation and its type. It is a measure of the state of vegetation health based on how plants reflect light at certain wavelengths. In this project the comparison of real and multispectral images by Copernicus allows Sentinel 2 and 3 programms allows to study the biodiversity change by the different reflectance .