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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B6-123-2016</article-id>
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<article-title>DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION
PROGRAM USING INTERFEROMETRIC SAR</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ito</surname>
<given-names>Y.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ikemitsu</surname>
<given-names>H.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Nango</surname>
<given-names>K.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Dept. of Technology and Information Education, School of Natural and Living Sciences Education, Naruto University of Education, 748 Takashima, Naruto, Tokushima Pref. 772-8502, Japan</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Course of Technology and Information Education, Graduate School of Education, Naruto University of Education, 748 Takashima, Naruto, Tokushima Pref. 772-8502, Japan</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Course of Technology Education, College of Education, Naruto University of Education, 748 Takashima, Naruto, Tokushima Pref. 772-8502, Japan</addr-line>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>17</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>XLI-B6</volume>
<fpage>123</fpage>
<lpage>129</lpage>
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<license license-type="open-access">
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<p>This paper proposes a science and technology education program to teach junior high school students to measure terrain changes by
using interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The objectives of the proposed program are to evaluate and use information
technology by performing SAR data processing in order to measure ground deformation, and to incorporate an understanding of
Earth sciences by analyzing interferometric SAR processing results. To draft the teaching guidance plan for the developed education
program, this study considers both science and technology education. The education program was used in a Japanese junior high
school. An educational SAR processor developed by the authors and the customized Delft object-oriented radar interferometric
software package were employed. Earthquakes as diastrophism events were chosen as practical teaching materials. The selected
events indicate clear ground deformation in differential interferograms with high coherence levels. The learners were able to
investigate the ground deformations and disasters caused by the events. They interactively used computers and became skilled at
recognizing the knowledge and techniques of information technology, and then they evaluated the technology. Based on the results
of pre- and post-questionnaire surveys and self-evaluation by the learners, it was clarified that the proposed program was applicable
for junior high school education, and the learners recognized the usefulness of Earth observation technology by using interferometric
SAR. The usefulness of the teaching materials in the learning activities was also shown through the practical teaching experience.</p>
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