Browse Remote Sensing Resources

Browse Remote Sensing Resources

Hurricane / Tropical Cyclones: Technologies

Aerosounde aircraft
Primary Topic: 
Technology
Subtopics: 
Weather and Climate, Tropical Cyclones, Remote Sensing
Type: 
Website
Audience: 
Informal, Formal, 6 - 8, 9 - 12
Keywords: 
hurricanes, GPS, airborne science, altimitry
Standards: 
ESS2.A
Summary: 
This website explores the technologies used to study and understand tropical cyclones.

Active and Passive Remote Sensing Diagram

Diagram which illustrates active and passive remote sensing
Primary Topic: 
Technology
Subtopics: 
Satellites, Remote Sensing
Type: 
Image
Audience: 
Informal, General, 6 - 8, 9 - 12
Keywords: 
passive, active, radar, radiometer, frequency
Summary: 
This diagram illustrates the differences between active and passive remote sensing.  TRMM and GPM rely on active and passive instruments to measure the properties of precipitation from space.

NASA's Hurricane Hunters

The eye of Hurricane Earl from a plane
Primary Topic: 
Technology
Subtopics: 
Tropical Cyclones, Remote Sensing
Type: 
Video
Audience: 
Informal, Formal, 6 - 8, 9 - 12
Keywords: 
airplane, aeronautics, UAV, Global Hawk, hurricane eye
Summary: 
During the 2010 hurricane season, NASA deployed its piloted DC-8 and WB-57, and unmanned Global Hawk aircraft, arming hurricane researchers with the information needed to predict the growth and intensification of hurricanes.

Unmanned NASA Storm Sentinels set for Hurricane Study

Primary Topic: 
Technology
Subtopics: 
Weather and Climate, Remote Sensing
Type: 
Article
Audience: 
Informal, Formal, 6 - 8, 9 - 12
Keywords: 
airplane, aeronautics, UAV, sensors, hurricanes
Summary: 
NASA will dispatch two unmanned aircraft equipped with specialized instruments high above tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean basin. These "severe storm sentinels" will investigate the processes that underlie hurricane formation and intensity change.

Eyes on the Earth: Vital Signs of the Planet

Eyes on Earth Thumbnail
Primary Topic: 
Technology
Subtopics: 
Weather and Climate, Satellites, Remote Sensing
Type: 
Interactive
Audience: 
Informal, Formal, 9 - 12, 6 - 8
Standards: 
ESS2.A, ESS3.A
Keywords: 
climate change, sea level, ice, atmosphere, oceans
Summary: 
View recent data for air temperature, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sea level, ozone, ice and water using an interactive viewer. You can also follow NASA's satellites and learn how they collect critical data about Earth's atmosphere, land, and oceans.

EarthKAM - Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students

EarthKAM thumbnail
Primary Topic: 
Technology
Subtopics: 
Remote Sensing, STEM Careers
Type: 
Website
Audience: 
Outreach, Formal, 6 - 8
Keywords: 
International Space Station, Earth observing
Standards: 
ESS3.C
Summary: 
An educational outreach program allowing middle school students to take pictures of our Earth from a digital camera on board the International Space Station. Educators must register in order to participate in EarthKAM missions and request photos of Earth.

Global Precipitation Measurement Constellation

Thumbnail for GPM Constellation vidoe
Primary Topic: 
Technology
Subtopics: 
Satellites, Remote Sensing
Type: 
Video
Audience: 
Outreach, 9 - 12
Standards: 
ESS2.C
Keywords: 
GPM Constellation, GPM Core Observatory, orbits, NPP, JAXA, CNES, GCOM-W1, Megha-Tropiques
Summary: 
Animation that demonstrates the global coverage of the GPM Constellation of satellites.

Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar Arrives at Goddard

A NASA engineer removing the DPR from its shipping container
Primary Topic: 
Technology
Subtopics: 
Remote Sensing, STEM Careers
Type: 
Video
Audience: 
Outreach, General
Standards: 
ESS2.A
Keywords: 
DPR, radar, Goddard Space Flight Center, JAXA
Summary: 
Engineers from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. oversee the arrival and unpacking of the dual-frequency Precipitation Radar.

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