Observing Australian natural hazards through satellite imagery - Classroom activities using Digital Earth Australia (DEA)

<div>This document steps teachers and students through accessing and using satellite data on the Digital Earth Australia (DEA) Portal, with a particular focus on bushfires and flood events. The document is intended to be followed with the DEA portal open so teachers and students can explore the data using the links provided in the guide. The document also provides brief background information on how spectral satellites operate and how various bands of the electromagnetic spectrum can deliver useful data.</div>

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2023-11-13
Date (Publication)
2024-02-29T05:53:51
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/149042

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/149042

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Author

Iffland, D.

 Internal Contact
Purpose

An educational document exploring how satellite data is used in hazard monitoring and management. The document provides some classroom activities for students and teachers.

Status
Completed
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Resource provider

Office of the Chief Scientist

 External Contact
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Iffland, D.

 Internal Contact
Spatial representation type
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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N
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Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Protocol

FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

Name of the resource

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Description

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Keywords

  • Education

Keywords

  • satellite imagery

Keywords

  • Classroom activities

Keywords

  • earth observation

Keywords

  • natural hazards

Keywords

  • Digital Earth Australia (DEA)

Keywords

  • Floods

Keywords

  • Bushfires

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf

  • OTHER EDUCATION

Keywords

  • Educational Product

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Addressee
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
User

Any
Use constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2023

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Classification system

Australian Government Security Classification System

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice facsimile
OnLine resource

Download the document (docx) [9.2 MB]

Download the document (docx) [9.2 MB]

Distribution format

  • docx

OnLine resource

Download the document (pdf) [970 KB]

Download the document (pdf) [970 KB]

Distribution format

  • pdf

Resource lineage

Statement

<div>This is a new document initially created to accompany teacher professional learning sessions at CONASTA70 in July 2023. This document is adapted from the in person workshops, and broadened to suit a national audience.</div>

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/3f5433d5-6c27-40fa-83dc-8fadaa6eed92

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Iffland, D.

 Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Document
Name

Teaching / Outreach Document

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/149042

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/accessDenied.jsp/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/3f5433d5-6c27-40fa-83dc-8fadaa6eed92

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/3f5433d5-6c27-40fa-83dc-8fadaa6eed92

Date info (Creation)
2025-05-05T00:33:41.174Z
Date info (Creation)
2024-02-29T01:20:29
Date info (Revision)
2025-05-05T00:33:56.513Z

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

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Keywords

Educational Product
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
OTHER EDUCATION

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