ICESat-2 Pre-launch Educator Workshop

ICESat-2 Pre-launch Educator Workshop

Video of Facebook Live from the Dick DeWees Community Center in Lompoc, California on September 13, 2018

The NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) will launch from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on September 15, 2018. ICESat-2 will be a satellite that will use an on-board laser system to measure the height of Earth’s ice, trees, oceans, geographic features, among others.

Brian Campbell, NASA Earth Science Education Specialist at NASA Wallops Flight Facility, describes the science behind the mission and its connection to the GLOBE Program. 

John Moore and Peter Dorofy from the Palmyra Cove Nature Park’s Institute for Earth Observations explains how the data from ICESat-2 can be display on the HoloGLOBE.

 

HoloGLOBE Virtual Reality App with the ICESat-2 module: This is a hands-on interactive for all ages in which you can hold the Earth in 3-D in your hands to view and interact with our planet and see ICESat-2 orbits and elevation data.

Live Facebook video was done as a partnership with the GLOBE Mission EARTH Project.

ICESat-2 website: https://icesat-2.gsfc.nasa.gov/launch-info

Photon Jump Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYRqkdYJRr0

Recorded on Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 4:00 pm PDT

https://www.facebook.com/globemissionearth/videos/225476834985030/

 

Original YouTube website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TD_kMmNiSo&t=5s

 

View on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/GME-ICESat2

 

Tree Height protocol

https://www.globe.gov/.../355097/lc_fg_treehtlevel.pdf