Hello Dr. Husar,
My name is Michael Routhier and I am the director of the Laboratory
for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis at the Institute for the
Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire.
Every year my laboratory puts on a large outreach event which
integrates over two hundred high school students into a one day
educational geo-spatial science conference held here at my institute.
This conference is geared towards developing a sense of excitement
about science, engineering and mathematics within our visiting
students. Every year we focus our conference efforts around a set of
themes and this year one of our major themes was focused on NASA's
50th anniversary. To emphasize this theme my team constructed a twenty
panel display of NASA photography over the last 50 years portraying
photos from early aeronautics through images from current satellite
imaging technologies. As part of these panels, we included an image
of your Terra 3D Globe. (http://capita.wustl.edu/MTPEPoster/index.html)
All of the panels were quite well received by all of our guests and
now that our event is over we are donating them to the Christa McAuliffe
Planetarium in Concord, NH (http://www.starhop.com/) for the grand
opening of their McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center on March 6th.
Since our panels will be on semi-permanent display there I wanted to
ask your permission to use your image in such a manner. Currently we
are listing the following text and credits from your website along
with your image on a panel.
"This Earth image is synthesized from four remotely sensed data layers:
visible light reflection over land (SeaWiFS), fires over land (AVHRR),
aerosol over the oceans (AVHRR) and IR cloud image from four geo-
stationary satellites. The large aerosol plume over the Atlantic is
from biomass burning and wind blown dust emitted over Africa. Such data
fusion from multiple sensors, along with surface-based observations
and modeling studies address the key scientific challenge of the
Mission to Planet Earth/Earth Observing System (MPTE/EOS) Program: how
do the Earth's land, water, air, and life interact to produce the
environment in which we live? (Synthetic image by R.B. Husar,
Washington U.; land layer by the SeaWiFS Project, fire maps from
ESA, aerosol layer from NOAA-NESDIS and cloud layer by SSEC, U. Wisconsin.)"
At your convenience can you let me know if it is OK to you use your
image and your text for this display?
Please feel free to contact me by e-mail at mike.routhier@unh.edu
or by phone at (603) 862-1954 if you would like to talk more on the
subject. Also for your convenience I've included a .zip file
containing small .jpg files of all of our panels (original are
36 x 70 inches) so that you can get an idea of the context of the
collection.
Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from
you.
-- Michael
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Michael Routhier
Laboratory for Remote Sensing and
Spatial Analysis,
CSRC EOS, Morse Hall, Room 253, UNH
Durham, N.H. 03824
Phone # (603) 862-1954
E-Mail mike.routhier@unh.edu
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