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Organizing your AOI and Land Cover Observations
Hello! My name is Sophia and I live in San Diego, California. I
recently finished making all 37 observations for my AOI, which I did
over the course of exactly one week. I took observations almost every
day, spreading out my data-collecting, which I recommend if you start
well before your data deadline so you don’t get too burnt out!
To start, I generated my AOI grid. Make sure to look at your grid
in satellite view to ensure that the vast majority of the
points are accessible. Zoom into each point to see ...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
GLOBE PROTOCOLS
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE
Primary Audience:
PARTNERS
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
La Nube, El Paso’s science museum, hosted a LEGO summer camp for
elementary level students this past July. The event contained various
science experiments and activities that the physics department from EL
Paso Community College provided, teaching the little ones the basics
on science while having fun.
The contributions from NASA’s GLOBE partner, headquartered at the
Transmountain campus, provided a unique take on LEGO’s. GLOBE at
EPCC-TM provided a satellite imagery activity using LEGOs. Developed
by Holli Kohl, the activity involved using satellite imagery with ...
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For my (Area of Interest) AOI project I collected my 37 points using
GLOBE observer, google maps, and a grid creator. These tools made
collecting my data points a lot easier.
To start I plotted where all my AOI points would be based on a
central point. Using CVS and GeoJson files I was able to get all 37
AOI points in that area. When choosing a center point for your grid
you should consider things that will affect your ability to take
photos before placing your center point. Originally I had placed my
AOI points in West Bloomfield but due to the large amount of private ...
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Curriculum:
STEM
Investigation Areas:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
Primary Audience:
PARTNERS
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
I did
my AOI centered at a point near the entrance of my old elementary
school, Wilshire Elementary, in Euless, which is where I live. I
finished my 37 field observations in the span of exactly 7 days. This
allowed me to have more breathing space when collecting my data. When
strategizing a plan to get this done, I decided to keep my process as
simple and efficient as possible while utilizing applications such as
Google My Maps, EarthMap, and the link to generate the CSV and GeoJSON
files for the AOI.
To start, I headed to the application that was provided by ...
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As we approach the summer months, we have time to reflect on our
progress with our students thus far, whether it be in an informal or
formal setting. We also can account how we have incorporated GLOBE
resources in our work. Already, we saw various water coolers present
innovative talks on how we can engage participants better, like
utilizing library resources. We saw in the GLOBE Observer CONNECT
series highlight data collected through the GLOBE Observer app and the
results and analysis of the 2024 eclipse event. And as we celebrate
GLOBE’s 30 year anniversary, we can take ...
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The Problem
You've got a list of AOI coordinates. Google Maps will show them
to you, but it won't tell you the best order to visit them. If
you’ve got more than a few points, this becomes a mess—guesswork,
wasted time, and unnecessary backtracking.
We need a tool that will plan the most efficient route for us
instead of figuring things out ourselves. That’s what this does,
here’s how:
The Solution
This problem is a textbook example of the classic Traveling
Salesman Problem (TSP): How can we find the shortest route
that visits each ...
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Curriculum:
TECHNOLOGY
STEM
GLOBE Science Topics:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
Investigation Areas:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
It was great seeing all of the data that students collected for the
Urban Heat Island Intensive Observation Period in December 2024. I
decided to look at some of the data using a graphing tool called CODAP
from the Concord Consortium. It is easy to use and makes some neat
graphs fast.
First, I downloaded all of the surface temperature data from the
GLOBE website for December using the ADAT system (Advanced Data Access
Tool). There are other ways to get data from the GLOBE data base
including the Vis system and API.
Second, I brought the data into CODAP and clicked on ...
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Field Campaigns:
SURFACE TEMPERATURE
GLOBE Mission Earth News:
STUDENT RESEARCH & ACTIVITIES
GLOBE Science Topics:
GLOBE PROTOCOLS
SCIENTIST SKILLS
Investigation Areas:
SURFACE TEMPERATURE
La Nube is El Paso’s newest interactive science museum that opened
this August 2024, and GLOBE’s official partner, the El Paso Community
College (EPCC) and the Gene Roddenberry Planetarium provided fun and
educational activities for a Fall camp for middle schoolers. This
three-day camp provided interactive projects for these young students
to learn more about science. La Nube provided various interactive
demonstrations on atmospheric processes and desert environments. The
Gene Roddenberry Planetarium group headed by Evelyn Maldonado, an
official NASA Solar System ...
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The El Paso Community College (EPCC) – Transmountain campus hosted
3rd Earth Science Day Event on October 16th with the main theme being
Earth Science Everywhere . The aim was to help the public
understand how weather, climate, natural resources and other
geological processes affect our everyday lives and decision making in
the El Paso region.
EPCC embarked on this event in tandem with the American Geosciences
Institute’s (AGI) annual Earth Science Week: a time designated to
promote geoscience awareness across our nation. Here is an excerpt on
AGI’s focus for this ...
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Mis queridos lectores los invito a consultar el siguiente artículo
publicado este año por la revista Palobra de la Universidad de
Cartagena (Colombia).
https://revistas.unicartagena.edu.co/index.php/palobra/search/authors/view?givenName=Delimiro&familyName=Navarro%20Arrieta&affiliation=Instituci%C3%B3n%20Educativa%20de%20Gambote&country=CO&authorName=Navarro%20Arrieta%2C%20Delimiro
El cual permite difundir los resultados de un proyecto maravilloso en
el que la investigación dirigida es la estrategia pedagógica
implementada para potenciar las competencias ...
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Curriculum:
EDUCATION RESEARCH
STEM
GLOBE International STEM Network (GISN):
GLOBE INTERNATIONAL STEM NETWORK (GISN)
GLOBE Mission Earth News:
STUDENT RESEARCH & ACTIVITIES
GLOBE Science Topics:
DATA INCLUDED
GLOBE PROTOCOLS
Investigation Areas:
HYDROSPHERE
This
project is all about mixing the personal stories of citizen
scientists with 30 years of the GLOBE (Global Learning and
Observations to Benefit the Environment) program. It combines
these two sources, as well as other data sources, to get a
complete picture of how our environment change
This
is the first year for the Climate Chronicle activity. Explore
th e collection of Climate
Chronicles from the 2024 virtual SEES Earth System ...
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Our project for SEES 2024 was "Creating a Model to Identify
High-Risk Areas for Flash Flooding in Houston, Texas." In this
blog, I will discuss how we calculated which areas are "high-risk."
There are many ways to identify the most at-risk points of flooding
in a given region. Such points are commonly identified in a flood map,
such as the one here:
For our project, we decided to look at elevation data, which is
perhaps the most intuitive: water flows downhill and will accumulate
in the lowest regions. To get our elevation data, we used ...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
CLIMATE CHANGE
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE
Investigation Areas:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
BIOSPHERE
LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION
Primary Audience:
SCIENTISTS
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
Student Research Reports:
MISSION MOSQUITO REPORT
SEES 2024 Experience
Getting the opportunity to participate in the NASA SEES Earth System
Explorers program has positively impacted my educational and career
journey in more ways than I could've imagined. Throughout this
internship, I gained an immense amount of knowledge in Earth science,
utilizing the GLOBE Observer app, ArcGIS, Collect Earth Online,
Python, and many other tools to better understand the environment
around us. During the last few weeks of the program, a team of seven
other interns and I completed our own research project called
"Harnessing ...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
Investigation Areas:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION
MOSQUITOES
Primary Audience:
SCIENTISTS
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
Student Research Reports:
MISSION MOSQUITO REPORT
In this blog post, I will go through every step of the internship and
outline my experience!
Before I do that, first of all, I would like to say that I am so
happy that I got to spend my summer with SEES! This program was so
amazing and helped guide me a bit more on what I want to do in my
future career and in college! I am very grateful for all of our
mentors who guided us through the program and provided great knowledge
and support to all of us! Thank you for this opportunity.
Modules: Climate Science Background and Exploring the Earth
To prepare for the ...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
Investigation Areas:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION
MOSQUITOES
Student Research Reports:
MISSION MOSQUITO REPORT
If you had asked me what “citizen science” was before this internship
with the NASA SEES ( STEM Enhancement in Earth Science ) Earth System
Explorers, I most likely would have conjured a description that
involved studying the human body. Now, however, I feel confident in
saying that citizen science is a dynamic, extraordinary meaningful
process by which everyday citizens contribute to real-world scientific
research. This internship allowed me to take on the roles of both a
citizen scientist and a researcher, deeply engaging with my local
community and environment while ...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
DATA INCLUDED
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
Investigation Areas:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
Primary Audience:
PARTNERS
SCIENTISTS
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
Student Research Reports:
MISSION MOSQUITO REPORT
The wildfire data analysis journey began with a dataset comprising
over 1200 points located in the California region. To uncover the
correlation between land cover types and wildfire risk, we first
needed to determine the wildfire risk for each point using the FEMA
Wildfire Risk Map. This step involved entering coordinates into the
software to obtain the wildfire risk index for each location. From
this dataset, we categorized approximately 325 points as having a very
low risk, 350 as moderate risk, and 578 as very high risk for
wildfires. These categories served as the ...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
Investigation Areas:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION
Primary Audience:
SCIENTISTS
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
Student Research Reports:
MISSION MOSQUITO REPORT
My group’s project focused on using land cover data and GLOBE
Observer images to create a machine learning model that can predict
land surface temperature - a measure of how hot the surface of the
Earth feels in a given location. For context, GLOBE is short for
“Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment”. It’s an
app that lets volunteers across the world take observations of their
local community (these could be of cloud cover, land cover, or
mosquito habitats) and these observations help scientists track
changes in the environment. It’s part of a wider ...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
Investigation Areas:
HYDROSPHERE
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
MOSQUITOES
Learning Activities:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
LAND COVER/BIOLOGY
Primary Audience:
PARTNERS
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
Student Research Reports:
MISSION MOSQUITO REPORT
Roboflow is an open-source dataset management platform, where users
can import data, label it, and then have a model train on it. For my
group's project, CS-FLARE, we used Roboflow to label brush, grass,
trees, and leaf litter in our NESW Images as shown below.
When I initially began labeling images, I tried
using bounding boxes for each picture like the leaf litter in the
image above. This became a bit annoying as sometimes the bounding
boxes would cut parts of objects like trees, but it was still faster
than using the polygon tool to manually trace around objects. ...
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Investigation Areas:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION
MOSQUITOES
Primary Audience:
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
Student Research Reports:
MISSION MOSQUITO REPORT
Check out these links to learn more on what we presented at the GLOBE
2024 annual meeting on the April 2024 eclipse!
English version: GLOBE_EPCC2024.mp4
Disponible en español: GLOBE
- EPCC Meeting Presentation 2024 (1).mp4
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El 25 de septiembre de 2015, los líderes
mundiales adoptaron un conjunto de objetivos globales para erradicar
la pobreza, proteger el planeta y asegurar la prosperidad para todos
como parte de una nueva agenda de desarrollo sostenible. Cada objetivo
tiene metas específicas que deben haberse alcanzado para el año 2030.
Para alcanzar estas metas, todo el mundo tiene que hacer su parte: los
gobiernos, el sector privado, la sociedad civil y personas como
nosotros (ONU).
Es por esta razón que el encuentro de
hoy tuvo como propósito principal establecer con cuales de los 17 ...
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Curriculum:
EDUCATION RESEARCH
GLOBE International STEM Network (GISN):
GLOBE INTERNATIONAL STEM NETWORK (GISN)
GLOBE Mission Earth News:
STUDENT RESEARCH & ACTIVITIES
GLOBE Science Topics:
CLIMATE CHANGE
Investigation Areas:
BIOSPHERE
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