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Computer Lab Exercises and Instructor's Guide for
Exploring Global Land Vegetation Using Satellite Data

 Authors: Ned Horning, Scott Goetz, Ph.D., and Sietse Los, Ph.D.
Curriculum Developer: Barbara Gage, Ph.D.
Editor: Diana Sunday

These guided inquiry exercises were designed to be used as stand-alone activities. The Instructor's Guide contains for each exercise

These Acrobat PDF documents are ready to print and duplicate for use in your classroom. To download these files, simply click on the highlighted item.

If you have comments, suggestions, or problems, please eMail Elizabeth A. Smith, exsmith@odu.edu.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
vg_intro.pdf
32 K Information you need for setting up and using these exercises in your classroom, 2 pp
EXERCISE 1
vg_ex_1.pdf
325 K Introduction to AVHRR Images and Creating Global NDVI Images, 12 pp
EXERCISE 2
vg_ex_2.pdf
317 K Seasonal Greening of the Hemispheres, 9 pp
EXERCISE 3
vg_ex_3.pdf
377 K Vegetation Classification and Global Vegetation Patterns, 11 pp
EXERCISE 4
vg_ex_4.pdf
277 K Land Cover Change in the Brazilian Amazon, 4 pp
EXERCISE 5
vg_ex_5.pdf
317 K Vegetation Dynamics in the Sahelian Zone, 9 pp
EXERCISE 6
vg_ex_6.pdf
345 K Comparing Estimates of Global Terrestrial Primary Production, 12 pp
INSTRUCTOR'S GUIDE
vg_ig.pdf plus
COLOR GRAPHICS
vg_ig_pix.pdf
1.5 MB The Instructor's Guide was designed for 2-sided duplication, 33 pp. The color graphics file contains only the answers that are pictures -- graphs, images, etc. -- and are suitable for printing, 8 pp.
592 K

 

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