Ontario Association of Physics Teachers
Annual Conference
26 - 28 May 2005

Ontario Section of the AAPT

Duncan Foster
Sir William Mulock SS / York Region DSB

Remote Sensing: a rich source of physics discussion
Remote sensing has entered the mainstream of public awareness; from satellite imagery to sea-floor mapping to Hubble images, remote sensing plays an important role in today's world. In this session, an in-class demo of remote sensing will be presented, as well as a discussion of relevant physics topics such as the e/m spectrum, colour transmission/absorption, sonar, scattering and others as they pertain to this growing field.