Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
May 2002
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American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2002, abstract #ED22C-03
Mathematics
Logic
6605 Education
Scientific paper
Large amounts of data from many scientific fields is freely available. For students, each of these data sets can form the foundation of a project rich in analysis and exploration. This paper reviews a geological planetary mapping project carried out by students at an urban American high school. It also reviews GeoVirgil, a new interactive open source mapping program. At the start of the project, a brief series of lectures gave students a background in planetary geology. All of the basic geological processes and features were reviewed and images from various terrestrial bodies studied. Then GeoVirgil was installed on PCs in the school's computer lab. There, students studied a USGS map of a region of Venus along with the corresponding Magellan radar imagery to better understand geological maps of another world. With GeoVirgil, students directly displayed and manipulated NASA Planetary Data System (PDS) imagery data files. After performing image processing and analysis, students used GeoVirgil's to create geological maps. Finally, students were given CDs with Magellan full resolution data (in PDS format) corresponding to an unmapped region of Venus and they created their own geologic sketch maps. This paper concludes by presenting and discussing several of the maps created by students and the plans for reaching a broader audience with PDS data sets.
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