Project

Using the 'magic' of satellite images as support for an educational package: Understanding Climate Change Effects on Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

Code
12B04513
Duration
01 April 2013 → 30 June 2014
Funding
Federal funding: various
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Ecology
    • Environmental science and management
    • Other environmental sciences
Keywords
climate change
 
Project description

One of the current priorities of UNESCO is to raise awareness about the dangers of climate change and other impacts of human activities entail for small island states. The SET will, in close cooperation with UNESCO, responsible for the development of an internet platform that brings together information and satellite images that are relevant to the issue of climate change and other impacts of human activity. For a number of selected islands examples will be drawn from the satellite could be used to better understand this issue.