[GO-ESSP] GO-ESSP Action Plans

[Annette Schloss]

Hi Everyone,

  here is an example of creating and using 8-bit versions of  
satellite imagery (or any raster data) for educators, which is my  
entry on Bryan's list.

This tool, the "ICEBOX" combines a Java application (Image Composite  
Editor, ICE) developed by Tom Whittaker at U. Wisconsin for NASA and  
UNH's MODIS satellite imagery of chlorophyll and sea surface  
temperature in the Gulf of Maine.  The tool creates the 8-bit images  
on-the-fly.

Try it!
http://www.cooa.unh.edu/education/icebox/
Select 1,2 or 3 images.  You have to select a date and a variable for  
each image.  (Try chlorophyll for 3 dates).
Click on the "View images" button.   (at this point the 8-bit images  
are created).
To use the "ICE" tool, click on the "Analyze Images" button.  (this  
brings up the Java app).
Now you can choose a color table, plot transects, pan and zoom, do  
some scatter plots, histograms, etc.  We have a tutorial on-line and  
have demonstrated this tool to teachers at workshops.  Teachers  
really liked it.  (The site is still being worked on, this is Version  
0.9)

NASA also has a site for other ICE applications:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/ICE/ice_intro.html


If we want to pursue these kinds of applications for GO-ESSP data  
sets, I think there will be a lot of interest in using them.

see you,
-Annette




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Dr. Annette L. Schloss
Complex Systems Research Center
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
ph: 603-862-0348
fax: 603-862-0188
email: annette.schloss at unh.edu
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