Environmental monitoring by citizens
and students though digital images. Student Climate Data
offers feature enhancement such as animations over time,
activities, and connections with NASA satellite image
products.
Picture Post Website
Picture Post is a NASA funded project based out
of the University of New Hampshire. Picture Post promotes
environmental monitoring by students and citizens using
digital imagery.
Picture Post website
Picture Post Animation
This animation shows picture post imagery over 4 years, as
well as a corresponding calculated greenness index and
satellite data.
Satellite data are from the MODIS
(MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) satellite,
and include Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
(NDVI, measures 'greenness'), and albedo*.
* MODIS data from: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed
Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC). 2010. MODIS subsetted land products,
Collection 5. Available on-line [http://daac.ornl.gov/MODIS/modis.html]
from ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A. Accessed August
02, 2011.