Abstract
Abstract. The intensification in recent decades of scientific evidence on climate change and on the degradation of natural systems has led to increasing public awareness about the environment. In recent times, this commitment to respecting the natural environment has emerged strongly among young people. Through various platforms, entities, and slogans, students from all over the world, and belonging to different disciplines, are coming together to defend their right to have a planet that enjoys good environmental health.The platform Edusat presented in this article aims to provide young people with empirical and quantitative learning tools to strengthen their ecology message. By means of remote sensing and through the data generated by the Copernicus program, an educational resource that analyzes the consequences of global environmental change is presented. In this context, remote sensing is a technological and transdisciplinary resource that provides young people with scientific arguments to censure the current relationship between human societies and nature.
Highlights
Remote sensing as an educational resourceThe social, economic and territorial dynamics that humanity has adopted since the First Industrial Revolution have led to the indiscriminate consumption of natural resources
The scientific strength of the negative consequences of climate change, pollution or biodiversity loss further intensifies critical reflection among citizens. This sense of protest and struggle is especially intense among young people, who are fighting against the passivity of politicians on climate change mitigation policies
The teaching material is designed to be taught in two blocks (Figure 2): a) Theoretical explanation of (i) what global environmental change is and its consequences; and (ii) what remote sensing is
Summary
The social, economic and territorial dynamics that humanity has adopted since the First Industrial Revolution have led to the indiscriminate consumption of natural resources. The exploitation of these resources has put the well-being of the inhabitants of the planet Earth, as well as the physical systems that support it, at severe risk This process has been described as “Global Environmental Change” and results in four well-known phenomena: pollution, biodiversity loss, change in land use and land cover, and climate change (Clark, 1988; Stern et al, 1992). Copernicus is the Earth observation program coordinated and managed by the European Commission and the European Environment Agency, with the aim of providing accurate and up-to-date information on six areas: climate change, security, emergency, atmosphere, marine environment, and land surface (Nieke, & Rast, 2018) All of this information is specially designed to provide a global view of the Earth’s health, with the aim of helping governments to focus on environmental policies and to effectively monitor their implementation. This data is available through various websites, applications and services, and it is designed for different user profiles, from highly specialized to less experienced ones
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