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Trek with National Geographic Explorer across the world

By iowaviewNovember 14, 2021Education, Geography Awareness Week, National Geographic, Observation, Outreach#geoweek, Geography Awareness Week, National Geographic Society, Paul Salopek

To kick off Geography Awareness week, explore the amazing journey of geographer, Paul Salopek’s 24,000 mile journey across the globe. During his 10-year journey he documented the places and people he encounter every 100 miles. At each of these milestones, he documents the date, location, elevation, shows a picture of his feet and the sky at that location, and interviews the first person he meets asking them 3 questions: who are you, where do you come from, and where are you going?

Follow his journey through an amazing story map: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk/#section-0.

Join in the celebration of Geography Awareness Week 2021!

By iowaviewNovember 11, 2021Activity, Announcement, Education, Event, Geography Awareness Week, Outreach#geoweek, #IowaView, #osmgeoweek, #thatsgeography, celebrategeoweek, Geography Awareness Week 2021, National Geographic Society, Outreach

November 14-20, 2021

Geography Awareness Week is coming soon. We will be sharing information about GIS and geography related careers as well as activities and games to help you sharpen your geography and geospatial skills throughout the week. Check IowaView daily for a new topic.

The History of Geography Awareness Week:

The National Geographic Society created Geography Awareness Week over 25 years ago as a way to celebrate and raise awareness of geography both as a discipline and as a part of daily life. The National Geographic Society felt there was a dangerous deficiency in American education with limited exposure to geography too many young Americans are unable to make effective decisions, understand geo-spatial issues, or even recognize their impacts as global citizens.
— see more at the National Geographic Website

Return to School with Just the Right Digital Map Tool! – September 28

By iowaviewSeptember 10, 2021Activity, Education, Event, Outreach, ResourceArcGIS Online, best digital map tools for our classroom, Directions Magazine, Esri Education Team, GeoInquiry activities, introduction to digital maps in education, September 28, StoryMaps, Survey123

Hey Educators! Directions Magazine and the Esri Education Team are teaming up to provide a webinar to help you find the best digital map tools for your classroom!

When: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 @ 7pm (Central)

Register Here: https://www.directionsmag.com/webinar/10996

Here’s more from the website:
Join us for a look at geospatial tools for any learning space: home, outdoors, school, or virtual. The Esri Education Team has great suggestions to enhance any grade level or subject area with a geospatial perspective.

In this webinar, we’ll cover:

Free mapping software (ArcGIS Online, Storymaps, Survey123, and more)
Entry-level, standards-based GeoInquiry activities for the class
Tips and tricks for flexible instruction with digital maps

SPEAKERS

Charlie Fitzpatrick, K-12 Education Manager, Esri

Tom Baker, Education Manager, Esri

Kylie Donia, Education Industry Specialist, Esri

Join in the fun ~ TeachOSM Back-to-School Night ~ September 21

By iowaviewSeptember 10, 2021Activity, Announcement, Education, Event, Humanitarian Mapping, Imagery, OpenStreetMap, ResourceBack to School Night, Humanitarian Mapping, Learn something new, Map-Alongs, OpenStreetMap, September 21, service learning, teachers, TeachOSM

When: September 21st, 2021 8:00 PM through 9:00 PM (Eastern)

Attention educators and mappers! Join TeachOSM Tuesday, 21 September for our first ever ‘back-to-school’ night. We’re offering an informal open house to introduce our programming. This hour-long event will feature brief demos from teachers and mappers to enable you to:

Find out more about how you can put OSM in your school
Learn how to take advantage of our Map-Alongs and other educational programming
Find out how you can get support open mapping education in your community

Sign up now to reserve your space!

Greetings from Camp Landsat: Cities and Suburbs

By iowaviewAugust 18, 2021Activity, Education, Environmental Change, Landsat, NASA, Observation, Outreach, Remote Sensingcamp crafts: "green roof" birdhouse, Camp crafts: color by number image classifications, change over time, Count down to Landsat 9 launch, environmental change, Greetings from Camp Landsat, NASA, Postcards from Camp, urban heat islands in Minnesota, urbanization, video of urban growth in Qatar, Week 5: Cities & Suburbs

Greetings from Camp Landsat!

**Postcards From Camp: Cities & Suburbs**
Are you exploring any cities this summer? Rain or shine, urban planners use Landsat to take stock of city growth and its environmental impact. The front of this postcard features a natural-color Landsat 8 image of Ocean Flower Island in Hainan, China acquired May 6, 2020.

This week’s camp theme is Cities and Suburbs and focuses on the growth of cities and urban areas as seen over time through Landsat images. Urban growth has impacts on the surrounding environment. Visit Camp Landsat to learn more and experience a time-laspse video of urban growth in Qatar, a storymap about urbanization of vacation towns, and learn about urban heat islands in Minnesota. This week’s camp crafts include Color by Number Image Classification and creating a bird house with a “green roof.” Thank you to our friends at NASA for making this fun summer camp possible!

Are you looking forward to the Landsat 9 Launch?

By iowaviewAugust 11, 2021AmericaView, Announcement, Education, Landsat, NASA, Observation, Resource, USGSA History of the Landsat Program, birth of NASA 1958, earth observation, Ellie Leydsman McGinty, founding of USGS 1879, Google Earth Tour, Landsat 9 Launch, September 16, UtahView

Rocket Launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Lompoc, California

Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ian Dudley — Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ian Dudley

Landsat 9 is scheduled to be launched on September 16, 2021. This will mark almost 50 years of earth observation by US satellites. In preparation for this historic launch, we will be sharing several interactive documents about the history of the Landsat mission as well as the information about the Landsat 9 mission.

Today we would like to share with you, A History of the Landsat Program, developed by Ellie McGinty at UtahView. It’s an interactive Google Earth Tour, which documents major moments in earth observation history through a combination of maps, text, and curated images starting with the founding of the United States Geological Survey in 1879 through the birth of NASA in 1958 to the conception of Landsat in 1970 and all the way to the present day launching of Landsat 9.

Remembering the 2020 Midwest Derecho

By iowaviewAugust 10, 2021Education, Event, Imagery, Landsat, NASA, Observation, Remote SensingAugust 10 2020, Derecho Damage, Derecho Flattens Iowa Corn, Derecho Story, Midwest Derecho, NASA Earth Observatory, NOAA, StoryMap

A year ago today a derecho, a series of thunderstorms with hurricane-like winds and heavy rains, struck Iowa with very little warning. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) put together a multi-media story map to tell the tale of this eventful day. Hundreds of thousands of trees were lost or damaged. Homes and buildings were destroyed. Many people lost power for days or even weeks.

Have you visited the NASA’s Earth Observatory? It is a NASA website that helps make satellite imagery relevant to the general public and it is a great place to find images for presentations or use in the classroom. In August 2020, the Earth Observatory featured a comparison of satellite images from July 2020 and August 2020 to show the extent of the derecho damage on Iowa cropland.

Camp Landsat Counts Down to the Landsat 9 Launch

By iowaviewAugust 2, 2021Activity, Announcement, Education, Event, Game, Imagery, Landsat, NASA, Outreach, Resource9 weeks of summer camp fun, A postcard from camp, Camp Landsat, Count down to the Landsat 9 Launch, crafts, Explore, games, Landsat earth science, NASA, September 2021, Week 1: Rocks and Rivers, Week 2: Farms & Food, Week 3: Beaches & Reefs, Week 4: Forests, Week 5: Cities & Suburbs, Week 6: Fires & Floods, Week 7: Ice & Climate, Week 8: Health & Wellness, Week 9: Flora & Fauna

Each week NASA’s Landsat Science team will explore a unique aspect of Landsat earth science (see themes below). Weekly features include Landsat related crafts and games, revisiting each sequential Landsat mission as well a weekly postcard from camp. Stop by each week of camp to explore a new theme.

Release of Cover Crop ID Toolbox and Handbook

By iowaviewMay 12, 2021Announcement, Environmental Change, Imagery, Observation, Outreach, Remote Sensing, TutorialsCover Crop ID Toolbox, IowaView, New Release

IowaView staff have released the Cover Crop ID Toolbox and Handbook. This toolbox allows users to quickly identify possible cover crop fields using three Sentinel-2 images from the fall, early spring, and late spring downloaded from the Earth Explorer website based on field boundaries supplied by the user. On the project webpage you can download the toolbox which works with both ArcMap or ArcGIS Pro as well as the Cover Crop ID Toolbox Handbook that provides additional details about each step of the tool.

#ConnectedByEarth – Earth Day 2021!

By iowaviewApril 22, 2021Activity, Earth Day, Education, Event, Imagery, NASA, Phenology, Remote Sensing, Resource#ConnectedByEarth, Bee Connected, Earth Day 2021, Jenny Mottar, NASA

This year NASA’s Earth Day theme is #ConnectedByEarth. Visit the NASA Earth Day Poster website to watch a short video about the inspiration for the poster and discover the gems hidden within the poster. Download your copy of the poster to learn more about bees and our natural world.