Making remote sensing tangible for students
Remote sensing offers various opportunities to assess land use and land cover change, environmental issues and consequences of climate change. With the project “geo:spektiv2GO” the Department of Geography – Research Group for Earth Observation (rgeo) at the Heidelberg University of Education enabled students to carry out remote sensing-based activities in the field with a special developed App “BLIF:Explorer“, interlinked with the e-learning Platform “geo:spektiv” and the webbased remote sensing tool “BLIF”.
The App makes ground truthing possible for students and in this way to facilitate the analysis of satellite images with “BLIF”, a special, remote sensing application, which enables students to create false colour composites and carry out land use/cover classifications and change detection. Through this new “mobile-learning system” (m-learning) teachers are supported to teach remote sensing theory and applications in schools. The App also can be used for ground based monitoring and the planning of field trips. Both applications are integrated in “geo:spektiv”, an adaptive e-learning platform dealing with environmental issues. The platform is now expanded by modules, which focus on topics like biodiversity agriculture.
This project was supported by the German Space Adminstration (DLR) through grants from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.