EXPLORE

Teacher Activities
  
Student Activities

Explore the mission of Pacific Disaster Center.

Prompt students to look at the AVIRIS images taken over Kailua bay and answer the following questing:

  • When were these images collected?
  • What was the remote sensing target?
  • How did we get these kinds of data?

 

 

 

 

 

  • Who collected this image?

 

 

Provide the information about the Pacific Disaster Center and ask students to identify the mission of PDC center

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prompt students to think about how the PDC center is related to the KaAMS mission and why they should collect the remote sensing data in Kailua Bay based on the direction of the PDC director.

 

 

 

 

Elicit from the kids the roles of the people who are involved at the process of collecting data in the live mission by having them to think about the people who work in the PDC.

Prompt students to think about the main role of each person who participate in the mission of collecting data by having them look at the ER-2 Flight Operations

 

Teacher Note:

  1. You may want to remind students about the description of a flight plan in the lesson plan "How do I Develop the Flight Plan" for this activity.
  2. Supplementary activity: You may want to have students to look at the actual data collection process over Kailua Bay by showing the following websites
 

 

 

Sample students response:

  • April 12, 2000
  • Kailua Bay
  • 1) Planning included identifying the mission and coordinating preparations among the people who work for the mission.
  • 2)Flying a mission included flying from NASA Dryden Center at Edwards Airforce Base, landing at the Honolulu airport, flying to the Kailua Bay, turning on the remote sensing instrument, collecting the data, turning off the remote sensing instrument, and returning to Honolulu.
  • 3) Analyzing data: data collected analyzed.
  • Pilot, Principal Investigator(P. I.), Grounded-based person(Mission Controller), etc

 

  • View the websites of PDC center
  • Research Background
  • The mission of PDC centers is to 1) provide valuable and timely information products and service for comprehensive emergency management in and around the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions, 2) address all phases of emergency management, 3) serve as a model for global, regional, and local initiatives in disaster information management,
    4) serve as a test - bed for science, technology, and organizational process.
  • Kailua Bay is part of Oahu Islands, Hawaii which is in the Pacific region of the world. So by mapping the Bay, we are contributing to the acquisition of timely information in the Pacific.
  • Unhealthy reefs are indicators of future emergency hazards such as
    (1) loss of fish which leads to loss in the fishing trade and eventually to loss in this area of the food supply and (2) loss of the coral reef which protects the coastline from erosion by large waves. Therefore, PDC can be a center for the mission collecting remote sesing data over Kailua Bay.

 

  • Pilot, Principal Investigator (P. I.), Ground-based person (Mission Controller), etc
  • Pilot will review flight path, altitude, technical issues, etc.
  • Principal Investigator will make clear what the scientific objectives of the mission are.
  • Ground-based person will make sure that everything is in order and that the weather is appropriate for flying.