Using Internet Map Services (IMS) and Coastal Remote Sensing for Education

Coastal GeoTools '05
March 7-10, 2005, Myrtle Beach, SC

Poster P31

P Bower

Dept of Geosciences, Oregon State Univ

Corvallis, OR 97331-5506

541-737-8818

DJ Wright

Dept of Geosciences, Oregon State Univ

Corvallis, OR 97331-5506

541-737-1229

M Feldburg

SMILE Program and Oregon Sea Grant

Oregon State Univ

Corvallis, OR 97331

An Internet Map Server (IMS) website with the goal of helping middle through high school students learn about ocean processes has been constructed in conjunction with the Oregon Coastal Atlas, an existing IMS site which allows a diverse audience of coastal users to access information about the Oregon coast. The main objective of this project is to create educational lessons that make use of a simple IMS site that allows students with basic computer skills to navigate the website and learn about large scale ocean process from actual ocean satellite imagery. The use of an IMS site allows students who have no prior training or access to GIS software to view real ocean data and perform simple analysis with out extensive software training or data processing.

This site features remotely sensed ocean images showing physical parameters and includes data from biological surveys conducted during the US GLOBEC Cruise off the Oregon Coast in the summer of 2000. The satellite imagery was selected from different time periods to show students key seasonal trends and differences in physical conditions between years that occur off the Pacific Coast.

The IMS site and the educational modules that were developed in conjunction will be demonstrated. The process of building the site, working with student outreach organizations, working with teachers, and key considerations in planning for construction of an IMS site will be topics for discussion.

Keywords: Remote Sensing, Internet Map Server, GIS, Education, Outreach

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