Ron is an Education Consultant for ThinkSpace Inc. and has used his 33 years as a classroom geography teacher to help develop MFteach a Practical GIS for High School Students . Complete with detailed lesson plans, data sets and teacher support documentation, MFteach has been well received in the province of Ontario and there is now growing interest in the U.S. as well. Planning for MFteach2 is well underway. The Canada Centre for Remote Sensing offers this tutorial on remote sensing technology and its applications. This interactive module is intended as an overview at a senior high school or early university level and touches on physics, environmental sciences, mathematics, computer sciences and geography.
Data is available for download, without charge.
Similarly, several types of full resolution satellite imagery are on-line. Please note that some files are large, therefore plan to download outside Eastern Standard Time peak hours. Return to News Page .