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South Dakota as Art and Remote Sensing Education
Topics: Education
, Remote Sensing
, Landscape
Keywords: Education, Remote Sensing, Art Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract Day: Friday Session Start / End Time: 2/25/2022 03:40 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/25/2022 05:00 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) Room: Virtual 63
Authors:
Bruce Millett, South Dakota State University
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Abstract
This paper discusses recent workshops in South Dakota to promote remote sensing education using open-source software and online resources. Platform such as satellites, aircraft, and UAS use a variety of multispectral sensors. Resulting imagery provides hundreds of scientific applications and uses. Advancing remote sensing technologies allow us to see our world in new and interesting ways. Science and art are often seen as separate and distinct from each other. However, photography has been an important medium in the art world and remote sensing can extend that medium in new and intriguing directions. The USGS EROS Center created the Earth as Art program and showed that satellites could capture compelling images of mountains, glaciers, rivers, deserts, and other landscapes. Images are created into works of art by selecting certain band combinations and using other color enhancement techniques. These resulting images become an effective and powerful learning approach to studying the features and the processes that shape them. Several examples are provided to show the variability and beauty of South Dakota.