Flight Mission Challenge: Improving Earthquake Monitoring Educator’s Guide with Activities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Grades 5-9 Acknowledgements



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Key Vocabulary

Aeronautical chart – map used to assist in navigation of aircraft.

Air traffic controller – individual trained to manage air traffic.

Autopilot – a navigational devise that automatically keeps planes on a steady course.

Baseline data – data collected to establish and understanding the existing conditions.

Building code – set of standards established and enforced by local government for the structural safety of buildings.

Creepmeter – instrument used to determine if slow movement is taking place between two parts of an earthquake fault line,

Deformation – a change for the worse; altering the form with a negative result.

Differential interferogram – results from the comparison of at least two images and which demonstrates the changes that have occurred.

Earthquake - shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity

Engineer – person who is trained in the application of scientific and mathematical principles to the design, manufacture, and operation of machines and processes.

Engineering design process – steps used by engineers to help develop products.

Fault – a crack in the earth’s crust.

Forecast – to predict in advance.

GPS (Global Positioning System) - radio navigation system that allows users to determine their exact location.

Knot - A unit of speed, used to measure wind speed. One knot is equal to 1.151 miles per hour or 1.852 kilometers per hour and is most commonly abbreviated as kn.

Magnitude – property of size or extent (whether large or small).

Mission – assignment for an operation, study, or process.

Mitigate – to reduce the seriousness or extent of the circumstances.

Model – representation of a phenomenon.

Monitor - to watch and check a situation carefully for a period of time in order to discover something.

Natural hazards –naturally occurring event that has potential of negative effect on people or the environment.

Navigate – to plan, record, and control the course of an aircraft.

Plate tectonics – theory that explains the global distribution of geological phenomena.

Probability – measure of how likely it is that some event will occur.

QuakeSim – a NASA project for modeling earthquake fault systems.

Radar – instrument that uses electromagnetic waves to identify range, altitude, direction or speed of moving and fixed objects.

Seismometer - instruments that measure motions of the ground, including those of seismic waves generated by earthquakes.

Space-based technologies – using space observation of the Earth (via satellites and aircraft) to improve understanding of earthquake and volcanic processes.

Stress – force exerted when one body presses on, pulls on, pushes against, or tends to compress or twist.

Stressmeter – instrument that measures the stress on an object.

Surface distortion – changes in the surface of the earth due to stress.

Swath - portion of Earth's surface or atmosphere measured by an instrument during a single satellite overpass.

Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) - instrument that uses radar to measure the surface distortions caused by earthquakes, volcanoes, and other dynamic phenomena

References
Charles Scawthorn, "Designing for and mitigating earthquakes", in AccessScience@McGraw-Hill,

http://www.accessscience.com, DOI 10.1036/1097-8542.YB070130


NASA Research: Earthquakes http://solidearth.jpl.nasa.gov/PAGES/quake04.html
Earthquake Hazard Program. NSGS. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/



G-III/UAVSAR TEACHER, STUDENTS, AND MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES

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MM = Multimedia

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M = Math

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How Does Imaging Radar Work? Simple and visual explanation of how imaging radar works. Clicking “back” takes you to a first question “What Do Topo Maps Have to Do With Space?” Also in Spanish. Part of JPL NASA SpacePlace.




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Track UAVSAR Flight Allows you to track UAVSAR flight on the G-III within US airspace in real time by clicking on the 'go' button. Clicking will open a new window (the flight-tracking website is not a JPL website). If the G3 is not in flight, the website will indicate the last known position.







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UAVSAR Missions to Hawaii, Haiti, and Central America (Airborne Science Newsletter, Spring 2010) NASA’s G-III UAVSAR has had a very productive start to 2010 with deployments to Hawaii, Haiti, and Central America while conducting local missions from its base in Palmdale California, as well.







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Gulfstream-III Movie Collection Three movies from the NASA Movie Collection.







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Gulfstream-III Photo Journal Images from the JPL Photo Journal.







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G-III Photo Gallery Pictures of the G-III, UAVSAR, and data imagery.







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Arctic Trek to 'Break the Ice' on New NASA Airborne Radars Press release (2009). NASA will 'break the ice' on new airborne radars that can help monitor climate change when a team of scientists embarks this week on a two-month expedition to the vast, frigid terrain of Greenland and Iceland.







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Mount Saint Helens in False Color from UAVSAR Lithograph of Mount Saint Helens of UAVSAR imaging.







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On the Road to DESDynl with UAVSAR Poster (2009) presented by team of Caltech/JPL reporting on NASA Terrestrial Ecology project involving G-III and UAVSAR to estimate canopy height and biomass.







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NASA's G-III and UAVSAR Conducting East Coast Vegetation Study Press release of radar imaging mission.







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UAVSAR Overview Homepage for UAVSAR (Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar) that includes news, mission and flights, instrument details, data, science, publications, and contacts.







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UAVSAR: A New NASA Airborne SAR System for Science and Technology Research. Scientific research report includes explanation process of differential interferometry.







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The Great Southern California Shake-Out At 10:00 am, Thursday November 13, southern California participated in the largest earthquake preparedness drill in U.S. history. The movie depicts the response of NASA/JPL researchers to this event. Included in this scenario are components which include modeling using QuakeSim tools and immediate post-earthquake acquisition of InSAR and SAR data by UAVSAR.







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NASA Airborne Radar To Study Quake Faults In Haiti, Dominican Republic Press release (2002). In response to the disaster in Haiti on Jan. 12, NASA has added a series of science over flights of earthquake faults in Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola to a previously scheduled three-week airborne radar campaign to Central.







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NASA Radar Images Show How Mexico Quake Deformed Earth Press Release (2010). NASA has released the first-ever airborne radar images of the deformation in Earth's surface caused by a major earthquake -- the magnitude 7.2 temblor that rocked Mexico's state of Baja California and parts of the American Southwest on April 4.







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Scientists Search for a Pulse in Skies Above Earthquake Country Press release (2009). New NASA 3-D airborne radar will study California's earthquake faults. Radar sees below the surface to measure buildup and release of strain along faults. Data can be used to guide rescue and damage assessment efforts after a quake.







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Earthquake Studies: SAR Interferometry and Surface Change Detection SAR can provide high-resolution imagery of earthquake-prone areas, high-resolution topographic data, and a high-resolution map of co-seismic deformation generated by an earthquake. Of these, the last one is probably the most useful, primarily because it is unique. Other techniques are capable of generating images of the Earth's surface and topographic data, but no other technique provides high-spatial-resolution maps of earthquake deformation.






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SAR Interferometry and Surface Change Detection (JPL Research Report, 1995).


Scientific argument for the need for global SAR measurements of surface changes due to earthquakes.


































Case of the Shaky Quake Educator Guide with activities in mathematics, science, and technology. Students work as Tree House Detective to learn about earthquakes. Resources include videos, website, and career education links. From NASA SCI Files.

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Southern California Integrated GPS Network Education Module (Earthquakes) This educational module was designed to allow students to interactively explore the use of SCIGN and its data in earthquake studies. It is divided into four major sections: Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, GPS, and Space Technology at Work. All of the sections include background material and activities; the first three sections focus primarily on introducing satellite technology and tectonic phenomena, and the final section serves to integrate knowledge learned in the first three by allowing students to use real SCIGN data in their investigations into plate tectonics, earthquakes, and GPS.

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Planetary Geology Educator Guide with exercises grouped into five units: 1) introduction to geologic processes, 2) impact cratering activities, 3) planetary atmosphere, 4) planetary surfaces and 5) geologic mapping.

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Earthquake (World Book at NASA) Overview of earthquakes; how an earthquake begins, spreads, and causes damage; how to reduce earthquake damage; and how to monitor and predict earthquakes.

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Earthquake Forecast Program Press release (2004). A NASA funded earthquake prediction program has an amazing track record. Published in 2002, the Rundle-Tiampo Forecast has accurately predicted the locations of 15 of California's 16 largest earthquakes this decade, including last week's tremors.







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FORECAST Scorecards The "Scorecard" is a forecast map, or "seismic hotspot" map, for a specific period of time.  The hotspots are found by a method that computes the increase in potential for large (magnitude M > 5.0) earthquakes. Part of the NASA QuakeSim Website.







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Space Age Quake Research On April 18, 1906 a massive, deadly earthquake left the city of San Francisco in shambles. One hundred years later, earthquake research has changed dramatically. We can't actually travel back in time to study the 1906 earthquake directly, but scientists are doing the next best thing - re-creating the earthquake inside a computer.







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NASA’s Earthquake Research Articles on current NASA projects related to earthquake monitoring and prediction.







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Anticipating Earthquakes (audio file/streaming audio) Science@NASA report on how satellite technologies being developed at NASA and elsewhere might be able to spot the signs of an impending quake days or weeks before it strikes, giving the public and emergency planners time to prepare. Discussion of how radar and InSAR is used.







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NASA Details Earthquake Effects on the Earth press release (2005). NASA scientists using data from the Indonesian earthquake calculated it affected Earth's rotation, decreased the length of day, slightly changed the planet's shape, and shifted the North Pole by centimeters. The earthquake that created the huge tsunami also changed the Earth's rotation.







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U.S. Tree Canopy Height 1650-1992 Biophysical parameters are easy to measure for modern vegetation, but how do scientists know what those characteristics were in the past? Native old-growth vegetation has different characteristics than modern regrowth, particularly in a forest. NASA and USGS scientists Louis Steyaert and Robert Knox combed through both historical and modern records of vegetation to characterize biophysical parameters for 1650, 1850, 1920, and 1992. From NASA Earth Observatory.







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SAR, InSAR, and Lidar Studies for Measuring Vegetation Structure Over the Harvard Forest Poster presented by JPL Scientists.


































NASA’s Research: Volcanoes Articles on current NASA projects related to volcano monitoring and prediction.







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