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Have you been listening to the Spatial Signals Podcast?

By iowaviewAugust 5, 2025AmericaView, Announcement, Education, Outreach, Remote Sensing, Spatial Signals PodcastAmericaView, Dr. Bradley Shellito, Episode 15: I Grew Up With All The Things with Amy Logan, Episode 9: The PI Is Not a Private Investigator with Robin McNeely, GIS origin stories, Mr. Chris McGinty, Spatial Signals Podcast

Spatial Signals is a podcast about remote sensing, GIS, and geospatial technologies – but more importantly it’s a podcast about the people who use and apply them. This podcast is sponsored by AmericaView, the national remote sensing network dedicated to empowering Earth Observation. Your hosts are Dr. Bradley Shellito from Youngstown State University and Mr. Chris McGinty, the Executive Director of AmericaView. New episodes every Monday morning.

Interested in Learning More about the Cryosphere?

By iowaviewMarch 21, 2025Activity, Education, Environmental Change, Imagery, Landsat, NASA, Outreach, Phenology, Remote Sensing, Resource, Story MapCryosphere, FROZEN, myNASAdata, NASA Earth Observatory for Kids, Sea Ice and the Earth System Story Map, When Rains Fell in Winter Story Map

After that last post, you might be interested in finding more resources about the cryosphere, here are several helpful resources: My NASA data has a series specifically focused on the cryosphere:https://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/basic-page/about-cryosphereMini-Lessons: https://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/all-cryosphere-maps-and-dataLesson Plans: https://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/all-cryosphere-lesson-plans NASA Earth Observatory for Kids Lessons (very fun, hands-on, and engaging for the younger crowd): Glaciers: Ice on the Move: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/eokids/glaciers-ice-on-the-move/Water,

World Water Day (March 22): Remembering the importance of water

By iowaviewMarch 21, 2025Activity, Announcement, Education, Environmental Change, Event, Lesson Plan, Observation, Outreach, Phenology, Remote Sensing, Story MapAccess to safe water, Glacier Preservation, glaciers are critical to our water future., lesson plans, March 22, mini lessons, myNASAdata, NASA Earth Observatory for Kids, raise awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water, SAVE OUR GLACIERS, Sea Ice and the Earth System Story Map, StoryMap

Annually, the United Nations celebrates March 22nd as World Water Day. World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water. The day is about taking action to tackle the global water crisis, and remembering what a vital role water plays for all of humanity. This

Dear Teachers: Part 5 – Exploring Water Use and Quality

By iowaviewMarch 20, 2025AmericaView, Dear Teachers, Environmental Change, Imagery, Landsat, Lesson Plan, Remote SensingA lesson for Middle School STEM, Aral Sea, Cause and Effect, Changing Water Conditions and Quality, Earth and Human Activity, Earth Science Everywhere, Exploring Water Use and Quality, Human Activities, Human Impacts on Earth Systems, Identifying scientific evidence, Landsat, Landsat 5, Landsat 8, Natural Resources and Ecosystems, NGSS: MS-ESS3-3, Satellite Imagery

In today’s lesson, we are examining water use and water quality. Satellite imagery helps scientists to better understand the changes in the environment. Examine the images below of the Aral Sea; the left image is from April 10, 1986, and the right image is from June 5, 2024. The water loss between the two images

Dear Teachers: Part 4 – Identify Local Natural Hazards to Prevent Powerful Disasters

By iowaviewMarch 7, 2025Activity, AmericaView, Dear Teachers, Game, Landsat, Lesson Plan, Map, Outreach, Remote Sensing"Exploring Disaster Management: Learning about natural hazards to prepare and prevent natural disasters", disaster recovery, Earth Science, environmental impact, geography, History, Iowa, Life Science, Local, Meteorology, Mt. St. Helens, National Risk Index Map, Natural Disasters, Natural Hazards, NGSS: MS-ESS2-4, Outreach, Prevention, Remote sensing, Volcano

As we continue moving through the series of lessons of the 2024 Earth Observation Day poster, “Earth Science Everywhere.” Today we will examine the disaster management lesson, “Exploring Disaster Management: Learning about natural hazards to prepare and prevent natural disasters”. This lesson seeks to engage students in learning about natural hazards in the environment. To

Dear Teachers: Part 3 – A Lesson about Forestry

By iowaviewFebruary 13, 2025Dear Teachers, Earth Observation Day, Education, Environmental Change, Landsat, Lesson Plan, Remote Sensingaerial photographs, Dear Teachers Series, Deforestation, Earth Science Everywhere, ecosystems, environmental impacts, environmental planning jobs, Exploring Amazonian Deforestation, Forestry jobs, how human activities modify the natural environment, human-induced changes, natural land cover, NCGE Standard 1, NCGE Standard 14, NCGE Standard 3, Remote sensing, satellite images

Today we are going to explore the forestry lesson, “Exploring Amazonian Deforestation,” which seeks to engage students in an examination of how human activities modify the natural environment.

Dear Teachers – Part 2: Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum

By iowaviewJanuary 24, 2025Dear Teachers, Earth Observation Day, Education, Imagery, Lesson Plan, Observation, Remote SensingEarth Science Everywhere, electromagnetic energy, electromagnetic waves, Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum, Landsat, Middle School STEM Lesson, NGSS: MS-PS4-1, NGSS: MS-PS4-2, Remote sensing, visible light, wave behaviors

Ready, set, go! As promised in our previous post we are going to do an overview of the recently published AmericaView lesson plans. The first lesson from the 2024 Earth Observation Day lesson series is, “Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS).” This lesson is intended to be an introductory lesson to help give students a basic

Dear Teachers 2025 – A Review of AV Teaching Resources

By iowaviewJanuary 13, 2025Announcement, Dear Teachers, Earth Observation Day, Education, Imagery, Landsat, Lesson Plan, Observation, Outreach, Remote Sensing, Resourceagriculture, AV Teaching Resources, Dear Teachers Series, Exploring Earth Science Through Remote Sensing, Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum, forestry, lesson plans, Remote sensing, Water, Wildlife

Dear Teachers and Readers, Did you know that in 2024 members the AmericaView Education and Outreach Team put together a series of lessons explaining how remote sensing and Earth observation technologies are integral to various sectors within society? These lessons are great! They are geared for middle and high school but can be adapted for

A New Iowa as Art Piece – Cautionary Waters

By iowaviewDecember 30, 2024AmericaView, Announcement, Education, Environmental Change, Imagery, Iowa as Art, IowaShots, Landsat, Observation, Remote Sensing#IowaView, Do Justice Exhibit, flooding, imagery, Iowa as Art, Northwest Iowa, Outreach

The piece asks viewers to reflect: when we are planning, do we consider only typical conditions, or does our planning account for extremes, flood or drought as well? Are we willing to allow development in the floodplain and take the loss when the flood comes, or perhaps make a harder choice to not develop there and lose out in the short-term? Also, in cases when we choose to develop in lower elevation areas, what kinds of zoning and development are we allowing in these areas?

Happy Earth Observation Day 2024!

By iowaviewOctober 15, 2024Activity, AmericaView, Announcement, Earth Observation Day, Education, Lesson Plan, Observation, Outreach, Remote SensingEarth Observation Day poster 2024, Earth Science Everywhere, Earth Science Week 2024, Happy Earth Observation Day 2024, lesson plans

Earth Observation Day 2024 is finally here as it the release of the AmericaView 2024 Earth Observation Day Poster! The poster is following the theme of this year’s Earth Science Week theme, “Earth Science Everywhere”. The front of the AmericaView 2024 Earth Observation Day poster features 6 image themes: agriculture, disaster, forestry, urban land use,

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