Remote Sensing

Tips:

We definitely need more information on the different meteorological satellites. Even for nationals, for some satellite info we just didn't know it and had to guess.

We could consider splitting the cram sheet into parts of 1. information on current theme 2. Satellite info 3. General Satellite Info. Then review 3 right before competition, taking 5 dbl sided sheets of 1+2 notes into the competition, since those may be more annoying to memorize.

National competition had current events of gulf oil spill + russian fires. These were about 1 mnth before the nat competition. Maybe a quick current events review would be useful? Cheat Sheet  External resources:

1. http://web.archive.org/web/20060401074743/http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/resource/tutor/fundam/pdf/fundamentals_e.pdf

(web page format rather than pdf format: http://ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/resource/index_e.php)

Section 1-3 are the most useful.

2. http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Perhaps covers a bit too much, best chapters are probably: Overview, Intro, Chpt 1-5, 6-9, 11 (contours only), 14, and perhaps 17

[http://www.sciencenc.com/Coaches_institute/2009_Presentations/2009%20remote%20sensing%20institute.pdf 3. http://www.sciencenc.com/Coaches_institute/2009_Presentations/2009%20remote%20sensing%20institute.pdf]

Good overview, but note it's for 2009-2010, so some stuff may be irrelevant.

[http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/Gallery/index.html 4. http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/Gallery/index.html]

Lots of nice pictures to look over.

5.http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/rs/home.rxml

Mostly radars, meterology, GOES and POES, which have been shied away from in recent years, so consider this if-you-have-time reading.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:SegoeUI,LucidaGrande,Arial;line-height:19px;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-align:left;">6. http://www.bu.edu/remotesensing/

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:SegoeUI,LucidaGrande,Arial;line-height:19px;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-align:left;">7. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/RemoteSensing/