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Geospatial Lab Application 12.1:
Name: _________________________________
Earth-Observing Missions Imagery
Question 12.1:
How does the VIIRS imagery help determine where shale and oil drilling is occurring in this
section of North Dakota (
Hint:
keep in mind the relatively sparse geography of North Dakota)?
Question 12.2:
What are all of those lights seen by VIIRS in the Tsushima Strait?
Question 12.3:
How is VIIRS used for determining populated areas and developing urban areas around the
globe?
Question 12.4:
How are the fires being shown in this MODIS imagery? How is the extent of the fires being
tracked via MODIS? (
Hint:
What else is visible in the MODIS scene aside from the fires
themselves?)
Question 12.5:
Other than viewing the outlines of the fires and the visible smoke, how are the instruments
onboard the various satellites used for tracking and monitoring fires (such as these in
Australia)?
Question 12.6:
What is the estimated sulfur dioxide content (measured in Dobson Units) present in Magelang
City, Indonesia, as a result of this volcanic eruption (note that this will be an approximation
given the scale and resolution we’re working with here)? What does that say about the air quality
in that city at that time?
Question 12.7:
What cities in China have the worst air quality measured as the highest concentration of aerosols
(of 3.0–3.5 on the aerosol index scale) during this smog event?
Question 12.8:
Geographically, where were the lowest daytime land temperatures for February 2020?
Question 12.9:
How do the land surface temperatures of the following cities in Mexico compare to one another
for this month (i.e., rank them from warmest to coolest temperatures): Cuautla, Mexico City,
Nuevo Laredo, and Torreon?
Question 12.10:
How do the sea surface temperatures of the Pacific Ocean off the coasts of Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico; Vancouver, Canada; San Francisco, California; and Los Angeles, California all compare
to one another (i.e., rank them from warmest to coolest temperatures) for this month?
Question 12.11:
Geographically, where are the greatest numbers of active fires burning for the month of
November 2020?
Question 12.12:
Given the information concerning the Salar de Uyuni desert climate, why is the MODIS imagery
showing this high amount of snow cover in this region?
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