Landmap provides geospatial datasets and resources for education. It aims to increase awareness of geospatial data and provide learning materials structured into courses, units, and topics. The learning zone covers topics from basic to advanced levels and includes software, data, theory, and workflows. It has a technological framework based on Joomla and a pedagogical framework following a six-part educational model. Future plans include making some resources openly available and developing new content areas and engagement with researchers.

1. Landmap GeoSpatial Education
Resources
Bharti Gupta
Kamie Kitmitto
Gail Millin-Chalabi
Conference 2012 Mimas, University of Manchester
Open Mic Session, 23 February 2012

2. Mimas - Who are we?
• A nationally designated data-centre
• A Centre of Excellence at the University of Manchester
Our
Mission?
To power world-class research and teaching

3. Session Objectives
• What is Landmap?
• Awareness of geospatial datasets
• Learning Zone
– Structure
– Level and applications
– Technological Framework
– Pedagogic Framework
• Future Plans/Projects

4. What is Landmap?
• Negotiate licenses
• Purchase datasets
• Free to Users
• A unique combination of
remotely-sensed imagery
and spatial information
• Spatial data download
• Learning Zone

5. Geospatial Datasets
Optical & Radar
Thermal
Elevation Feature

6. Optical Satellite Imagery
1. Landsat 7 (25m resolution) 2. SPOT (10m resolution)
Morecambe Bay acquired River Thames, London acquired
07/05/00 13/09/91
Used to map vegetation cover, land use and coastal sediment patterns.

7. 3. TopSAT
• Agreement with Infoterra to order TopSat
Imagery almost any where around the world
• Countries include;
– Nigeria
– Iraq
– Argentina
– China
– Sudan
– Palestine TopSat: Lake Ghio,
– Mali Argentina acquired
07/01/08
– Egypt

8. 4. Colour Infrared 5. Modern Aerial Photography
Provides information about vegetation Applications: Tree Preservation,
health and vegetation type. Regeneration, Mineral and Waste Planning

9. 6. Historic Aerial Photography
© The GeoInformation Group
Manchester Ship Canal (approx. 1940s)

10. Thermal Satellite Imagery
• Excellent resource for analysing relative heat
loss from:
• Buildings
• Ground features &
• Objects below the ground
• Digital database showing relative heat loss
for individual buildings
© The GeoInformation Group, 2009
• Compare heat loss by property
• Associate heat loss with specific addresses
• Five level colour classification for ease of
use and quick analysis
• Thermal measurement accuracy of 0.018°C; Thermal image to show heat loss in urban areas
measure heat loss differences of less than
1°C

11. Radar Collection
© ESA, 2005
© ESA, 2005
© ESA, 2004
Alternating Polarisation Image Mode Wide Swath

13. Elevation Collection
1. LiDAR 2. BlueSky DTM
© The GeoInformation Group 2007
Ideal for applications requiring height, volume or Photogrammetrically Derived
3D visualisation information 5m resolution
Coverage England and Wales
Suitable for rural and urban applications

14. Feature Collection
1. Building Class Data
• Identification of residential properties by age & type of structure for many
conurbations
• Applications:
• Estate management
• Direct marketing
• Crime analysis
• Fire prevention schemes
2. Building Heights Data
• Detailed height info for individual building block
• Applications
• Telecom network planning
• Property management
• CCTV location
• Noise pollution modelling
• Air pollution modelling
• Emergency planning

15. UKMap Data
1:1,000 scale topographic mapping, accurately locates buildings, garages, property boundaries,
roads, trees and other features

16. Learning Zone

17. Way to cover the linkage between
- satellite data,
- software(s) used to process those data, and
- theory

20. Learning Zone Structure
• The new Learning Zone (LZ) contains 15 courses 68%
being new and 32% reworked.
• Semantic structure of LZ
– Course (15)
– Units (70+)
– Topics (100 +)
• Each unit is characterised by four attribute types
– Software
– Data
– Knowledge (theory, practice or application)
– Workflow (work processes used in image handling)

21. Level & Applications
• Airborne Imaging – Basic
– Urban sociologist looking at the change in the urban landscape with time using
historic aerial photography
• Applying Heights – Basic/Intermediate
– Planning and landscape student wanting to create a basic 3D model of an urban
area in Google Sketch-Up or Global Mapper
– Archaeologist wanting to understand how to use LiDAR for getting height values
of an archaeological site
• UKMap & Landuse – Basic/Intermediate
– Geography student wanting to gain the skills to assess land use change for an
undergraduate dissertation
• Image Processing – Intermediate
– Masters students wanting to gain essential image processing skills to incorporate
satellite data into their research
• Radar Imaging – Basic/Intermediate
– Ecology Masters/PhD students wanting to learn Radar for the first time and use
the data for assessing the phenology of vegetation
• Classification Methods – Advanced
– Environmental scientists wanting to create a vegetation map using an object
oriented approach

22. Technological Framework
• Joomla 1.5.25 CMS, Apache Server, Solaris
• Storyboards and Wireframes generated
• Teachers/Lecturers – Course Planner
• Students/Researchers – Course Selector
• New Graphic Design – distinct from other areas of the
Landmap website
• Under discussion to implement
• Feedback questionnaire
• Discussion Forum

23. Pedagogic Framework
• Structure content into ‘small chunks’ easily digestible on the web.
• Provide a basis for searching of resources and designing activities, feedback and
assessment
• Telaman Ltd advised to follow a 6 part Educational Model (Pask, 1975) for each
course:
– Context – overview of learning unit, learning objectives, wider context and
pre-requisites
– Explanation – Theory and workflows for improving students understanding
– Demonstration – step by step instructions of how to undertake a task.
– Challenge – put theory and tasks completed together and put into practice
with an exercise (not guided).
– Feedback – provides possible outcomes for the activities and suggestions for
revision
– Summary – summarise the content and intended learning outcomes and
suggestions for further units to take.

24. Future Plans/Projects
• Currently the learning resources at Landmap can be accessed using
institution authentication and look forward to making them open under
Creative Commons license in near future.
• Learning Zone for Schools project is almost complete, target launch in 2012
• Covering the range from A-Levels to specialist/PhD level
• Looking forward to launch new content in the following areas:
– Image Processing for GRASS
– Introduction to OGC Standards
• We buy data, create learning and teaching resources around that data, but
not enough in context of L&T and Research work.
• Looking forward to work on engaging more collaborators, researchers and
authors

25. Gail Millin-Chalabi Kamie Kitmito James Scumm
GeoData Research and Landmap Manager Geodata Services Software Engineer
Development Officer
The Landmap Team
Yin Tun Bharti Gupta
Geo Metadata Development Officer Applications Development Programmer

26. Thanks for Listening
Helpdesk: spatial@mimas.ac.uk
Website: http://landmap.mimas.ac.uk
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