Animating Global Change

SO503, Spring 2007

The NASA site at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/ has the data referred to in the Stockli and others (2006) EOS paper.

Get a series of images to use to make a movie:

• You can use the monthly global images from the Blue Marble.  Note the possible resolutions available, but get just the smallest.  Note where you save them. 
• Alternatively you can get images from http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/ for one of the subsets.  While you could make a movie that is almost two years long, confine yourself to a dozen or iso images.  Note the possible resolutions available, but get just the smallest.  Note where you save them. 

Task 1.  Make a movie of the annual pattern.

• Use MICRODEM. 
  • Look up Movies, Movie Playback in the help file.  It should be very easy to create the movie, so contact the instructor if you are having problems.
  • Save the Movie as an AVI, Animated GIF, and MPEG.
• Use Windows Movie Maker as well,
• Compare the different movies, both for analysis after you make them and for importing into a Power Point presentation.  Insure that you discuss what you have to do to insure that your Power Point presentation works on another computer.

Assignment.

• Discuss your results in a PowerPoint presentation.
• Include a movie, and insure that it will work on the instructor's computer.