High Technology Presentation of Earth Science Stories in Schools and Museums

A revolution in satellite remote sensing Earth science data observation, processing and analysis has occurred. This revolution has produced vast quantities of beautiful, rich, informative observed and simulated datasets. A revolution in data visualization and display has also occurred which makes it possible to communicate these data and the resulting stories to large audiences in a compelling way at moderate cost. It is now cost effective to use high performance computers, High Definition TeleVision (HDTV) and state-of-the-art small video projectors to present to large school assemblies and museum audiences. A scaled down multimedia presentation, suitable for class room use, will be given. Please attend the Electronic Theater at noon or evenings except Wednesday to see the full scale 18x72' version in the main exhibit hall.

Visualizations will be shown which span the period from the original animations of the first ATS-1 GEO weather satellite images in 1966....... to the latest 1999 NASA Earth Science Vision for the next 25 years. Visualizations of Hurricanes Mitch, Georges, Fran and Linda and from the 1999 season will be shown. These storms have been recently featured on the covers of National Geographic, Time, Newsweek and Popular Science. Visualizations will be shown from the Earth Science ETheater '999 recently presented in Tokyo, Paris, Munich, Sydney, Melbourne, Honolulu, Washington, New York, and Dallas. Visualizations will also be featured from the Earth Today Exhibit at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington, the IMAX Theater at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore, the James Lovell Discovery World Science Museum in Milwaukee as well the American Museum of Natural History (NYC), and other venues. VisAnalysis of: 1) El Niño/La Niña SSTs and NDVI response using QTVR 2) GOES water vapor movie of the 1995 hurricane season. 3) TRMM rainfall and lightning 4) GOES-9 satellite images/winds and NOAA aircraft radar of hurricanes 5) Manipulation of 3D numerical model views; 6) Landsat-7 terrain flybys, 7) New data from the NASA EOS Terra, etc. will be illustrated. Many of these visualizations have been widely disseminated through the world wide web pages of the HPCC/LTP/RSD program which can be found at http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/rsd