ESA - Eduspace EN - Global Change - Background

Coastal change

Danube Delta change detection Oil spills

Deforestation

Bardia National Park Congo River Basin Kameng-Sonitpur Elephant Reserve Kilimanjaro Rondonia Shillong and Guwahati

Ice

Antarctica 2003 Climate change and glaciers Glacier analysis using radar imagery Glacial retreat in the Alps Glacier Ice Flow Monitoring of glaciers in the Himalayas Remote sensing of ice and snow

Urbanisation

Cairo City of Kathmandu Córdoba Himalayas Kathmandu Valley Lagos

Vegetation

Annapurna Conservation Area Lost in the Andes Ngorongoro Conservation Area Niger Inland Delta Vegetation in South America

Article Images

Background

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Landsat satellite images showing retreating glaciers in the Andes of Peru, South America. (See GoogleEarth file location 3.8)

Credits: Landsat

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Model of a glacier with accumulation area, ablation area, terminal lake and moraine. To learn more about the dynamics of glaciers, go to our Glacier Ice Flow case study.

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The Steigletscher (1994) in the very east of the Berne canton in

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Climate change and glaciers

Introduction

Exercises

Worksheet introduction Exercise 1: Inspection of true colour RGB composites Exercise 2: Animation Exercise 3: Band Arithmetic Exercise 4: GIS Exercise 5: Measurement of area Exercise 6: Multitemporal analysis Conclusions

Eduspace - Software

LEOWorks 4 (MacOS)LEOWorks 4 (Linux)LEOWorks 4 (Windows)

Eduspace - Download

Andes_images.zip GoogleEarth file