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Meteorologists use radar to study the reflection of radio waves from raindrops, sleet, and snowflakes to determine rates and types of precipitation.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/02mar_rainandsnow.htm
Different amounts of reflected radio waves are then transformed into visible colors of light.
The result is a false color image of the rates and types of precipitation.
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en
This chart illustrates how visible colors of light can represent frequencies of electromagnetic radiation that the human eye can not see.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/false_color.html
Radar on satellites is also used to detect changes in the way that sea ice scatters radio waves. Scatter data is used to produce a false color image that indicates different ages the age of sea ice.
http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/HPDOCS/misr/misr_html/beaufort_sea_ice.html
The key component of a model of a remote sensing satellite is a light emitting diode (LED).
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/led.htm
An electric meter can detect the voltage produced by the LED that is used to detect light. The voltage depends on the color of light detected by the LED and the intensity of the light.
http://mvh.sr.unh.edu/mvhinvestigations/light_investigations.htm
Alligator clips of wires that connect an LED to a multimeter usually do not make a good connection to the thin lead wires of an LED.
A Barrier Strip can be used as a link between the LED and the multimeter.
An LED can be connected to two terminals on one side of a barrier strip. The alligator clip ends of connecting wires can then be connected to two terminals on the other side of the barrier strip.
Create a Landscape
Review your calibration data. Choose three different colors of paper that produced distinctly different LED voltage signals. Decide what type of landscape variations you want to create. Use those three colors of paper to create a landscape.
How will you collect data so that the data can then be used to draw an image of the landscape?
A few questions.
How was your false color image of a landscape similar to a false color image of precipitation used in weather reports? How was your false color image of a landscape different from a false color image of precipitation? How could this activity be integrated into your STEM curriculum? What are some ways that students could use the model of a remote sensing satellite to design an investigation.