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Ground Validation and OLYMPEX Webquest

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A mission patch illustration with a satellite flying past a mountainous landscape

Audience

Educators

Grade Levels

Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12

Subject

Technology, Satellites

Type

Lesson Plans / Activities

With this webquest, students learn how we measure precipitation from the ground and from space using satellites, and why we need to do ground validation of the satellite data. Students also learn about the OLYMPEX Field Campaign, the goal of which was to collect detailed atmospheric measurements used to evaluate how well rain-observing satellites measure rainfall and snowfall from space.

Next Generation Science Standards: ESS2.C, ESS2.D

Ground Validation and OLYMPEX Webquest