VIEWING GEOGRAPHY: CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FOR EDUCATORS

1. Beginnings

- photographic, video, and digital viewing technologies
- viewing Geography
- objectives
- format
 

PART I: BASICS
 

2. How We See: Color Theory

- additive and subtractive color mixing demonstration
- constructing an additive viewer
- multiband additive viewer demonstration
- photographic and digital color

3. What To Use: Cameras, Films, and Digital Equipment

- photographic cameras versus digital cameras
- print/slide/scanned images processing systems
- film scanners and writers
- special accessories and field equipment

4. Making Instructional Copy Slides: Copy Stands

- opaque versus transparency copying
- constructing a copy stand
- lighting, film, and filters
- copying magazine photos, maps, and airphoto transparencies
 

PART II: NORMAL-COLOR, FALSE-COLOR, AND MULTI-TEMPORAL VIEWS
 

5. Viewing The Wide-Wide World: Three-Camera/Three-Projector Panoramic System

- panoramic cameras and projectors
- constructing a three-camera photographic system
- constructing a three/projector/three-screen presentation system
- shooting and showing three-camera panoramics
 

- environmental considerations
- cameras, films, and filters for aerial photography
- constructing stereograms and flight-line mosaics
- field trip and flights

7. Viewing The Visible And Near-Visible: Multiband Video Viewer

- visible and near-visible EMR illuminating the earth
- constructing a multiband digital video viewing system
- constructing an infrared flashlight
- multiband views of landscapes

8. Viewing Visible/Near-Visible Connections: Dual Normal Color And Color Infrared Photography

- the importance of the color infrared format
- color infrared signatures
- constructing and using a dual camera system
- utilizing paired slides in the classroom

9. Viewing Change: Photographing Time

- short duration (immediate, diurnal) repeat photography
- long duration (seasonal, anniversary date) repeat photography
- constructing repeat photography stations
- constructing multitemporal and change detection composites
 

PART Ill: THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIEWS
 

10. Viewing Stereograms: Ground-Based Stereo Landscape Photography

- constructing two and three camera stereo systems
- stereo site photography
- constructing photographic and digital stereograms
- constructing viewers for looking at photographic and digital stereograms

11. Viewing Virtually: Video Stereograms

- digital video cameras and liquid crystal displays
- constructing video stereoscope displays
- constructing heads-up helmet displays
- constructing a virtual classroom

12. Viewing Landform Anaglyphs: Parallax Induced Stereo Pairs From DEMs

- left and right perspective views from DEMs
- constructing map (gray scale, contour, hillshade) anaglyphs
- constructing transformation (slope, curvature, flow) anaglyphs
- constructing overlay (satellite image, land use, temperature) anaglyphs
 

- spectral colors and depths
- constructing maps with data coded as a spectral color sequence
- constructing maps with contours and hillshade added to a spectral color sequence
- holographic glasses for viewing a spectral color sequence

14. Viewing Volumetric Maps: Tomographic Processing

- slicing map distributions by depth
- printing a volumetric map from the Volmap Kits (see Appendix C)
- constructing a registration jig for the printed volumetric map slices
- constructing and displaying a volumetric map

15. Endings

- what was included
- what was excluded
- what is most important
- what next
 

Appendix A: Catalog of Color Infrared Signatures
 

Appendix B: Terra Firma - A Display and Analysis Package for Raster Data
 

Appendix C: Volmap Kits

- Volmap Kit 1: Mt. Rainier (hillshade), Grand Canyon (spectral colors), Harrisburg (land use), Peyto Lake (Landsat image)

- Volmap Kit 2: Mitchell Dome (hillshaded bathymetry), Houston Astrodome (hillshaded LIDAR), Mars (spectral colors), U.S.A. ( isobars)