AmericaView supports undergraduate student education through our StateView lead and partner academic members and their state natural resource management and planning partners. StateView academic institutions offer courses in introductory and advanced remote sensing, digital image processing, Geographic Information System science and applications, and related geospatial technologies such as Global Positioning System technologies. These courses provide opportunities for undergraduate students to engage in applied geospatial research projects with university scientists, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and the private sector.
StateViews also support undergraduate students through scholarships and mini-grants, research assistantships, internships, and travel support for field work and conference presentations. StateViews also share undergraduate educational resources, including lecture materials, laboratory assignments, and specialized course content that would not otherwise be available without an effective network of educators and scientists. In this way, AmericaView partners have been able to grow the number of undergraduate remote sensing courses to help meet the need for trained technicians and scientists in the rapidly growing field of geospatial science and technology.
The AV University is a collaborative online educational resource for AmericaView partners lead by CaliforniaView and GeorgiaView. The University provides undergraduate remote sensing and related geospatial technology education courses in an online format using PG STEAMER as the remote sensing software. Information is available at the AV University web site, or by contacting JC Seong (jseong@westga.edu), the GeorgiaView Director and AV University web developer.
MultiSpec © is a free remote sensing software package for analyzing multispectral images such as Landsat and MODIS, and hyperspectral images from current and future airborne and spaceborne systems such as AVIRIS. Supported by the Laboratory of Remote Sensing Applications (LARS) at Purdue University, IndianaView coordinator Larry Biehl maintains the software and provides updates. The primary objective of MultiSpec is to support remote sensing research. It is also very popular in other applications such as K-12 and higher education activities, and in multiband medical imagery.
MultiSpec is becoming increasingly popular in K-12 and undergraduate applications because it is easy to use, powerful, and does not require a high-end workstation. It is particularly useful for K-12 science teachers who use it create simple land cover maps based on free Landsat data of their local areas. In fact, the GLOBE Program, an international science education project and AmericaView partner, has been using MultiSpec for the Land Cover - Biometry Investigation for many years.
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