DEVELOPMENT OF SOFTWARE FOR USING SATELLITE IMAGES IN WEATHER AND CLIMATE STUDIES

• TAKAHASHI Tsuneya

  Integrated Center for Educational Research and Development, Hokkaido University of Education

• SUZUKI Hironobu

  Sapporo City Satsunaemidori Elementary School

• TSUCHIDA Mikinori

  Sapporo City Higashiyonesato Elementary School

• TSUBOTA Yukimasa

  Obirin University

Abstract

A software program that allowed students and teachers to easily manipulate a weather satellite image was developed. Users could immediately display an image if the day and hour were selected from a list, and obtain animated images. The duration, repetition, and speed of the animation could be specified. Further, the software had functions for writing and saving notes, depicting the cloud-top temperature, coloring areas corresponding to a specified range of temperature or reflectivity, and superimposing an infrared image onto a visible image. The software was practically applied in a science camp for 7^<th> to 9^<th> grade students and in a workshop for elementary school teachers. The participants of the camp were able to identify common weather and climate patterns on the globe such as the global air circulation and monsoons. Eighty-five percent of the workshop participants who or whose colleagues had used the CD-ROM containing the software with satellite images (which was distributed at the workshop) judged that it was useful or very useful. They remarked that the students were able to visually understand motions of clouds and typhoons and subsequently changes in the weather by using it.

Journal

• Journal of Science Education in Japan

  Journal of Science Education in Japan 30 (4), 241-251, 2006

  Japan Society for Science Education

Keywords

• satellite image
• software development
• weather and climate studies
• science camp
• teacher workshop

Details

• CRID: 1390001205751425664
• NII Article ID: 110006223702
• NII Book ID: AN00036978
• DOI: 10.14935/jssej.30.241
• ISSN: 21885338
• ISSN: 03864553
• NDL BIB ID: 8740074
• Web Site: http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/8740074
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I8740074
• Text Lang: en
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