Science+and+the+Environment

=Application to specific scenarios: 2.3 ENVIRONMENT= Note - in the old syllabus this was called - Area of Impact: Science and the Environment

Possible areas of study include:

 * Modelling and simulation: climate change, forecasting natural events or demographic changes - Shawn, Yae
 * Data logging: sensors, probes, real-time data collection - Kae
 * Satellite communication: remote sensing devices, satellite imagery, tagging - Alic, Jae Jin
 * Mapping, virtual globes: geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS). cell/mobile phone tracking, online journey planning, online maps - Katharine, Chen
 * E-Waste: development, disposal and recycling of IT equipment, monitoring organizations such as Basel Action Network - Violet
 * Resource depletion: Use of non-renewable resources for manufacturing components, electrical consumption of IT systems - Ye Eun, Javier

Resources
ITGSOpedia Google Earth
 * Modelling and simulations
 * Data logging
 * Satellite communication
 * Mapping, virtual globes
 * E-waste
 * Resource depletion
 * ([|Mrs Lindsay's bookmarks])
 * [|How does Google Earth work?]
 * [|Google Earth] on Wikipedia

Water Monitoring
 * Add a resource

Data logging
 * [|Data Logging: An introduction]
 * [|Data Logging: Wikipedia]
 * [|What are sensors]
 * [|Sensor: Wikipedia]
 * [|Sensor Web]
 * [|Remote Sensing] from Wikipedia
 * [|Remote sensing tutorial] NASA
 * [|Canada Centre for Remote Sensing]

Other Useful links
 * [|Delimiter-separated values]
 * [|USGS]
 * [|Global Climate Change]: info about data collection via satellites

Student Work
 * Computer industry impact on the Environment - updated 2007

News Items
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