ENV-01 · Remote sensing change detection

Quantify land-cover or heat change in a defined AOI; report uncertainty and resolution limits.

Teacher-approved public imagery or land-cover products for a defined area of interest (AOI). Methods worksheet: dates, sensors/products, resolution, change metric. No on-site trespass; no unauthorized drone.

AOI so large the metric is meaningless. Ignoring cloud cover / seasonality. Claiming meter-level land-use change from coarse pixels. Inventing ground truth.

AOI map; change table with uncertainty notes; resolution-limit paragraph; one-page board brief; non-claim list.

CT: pixel vs. land-use story. CR: reproducible AOI and dates. CO: peer re-runs the metric on a subset. CM: board brief. CZ: people living in the AOI.

Environmental-science teacher reviews AOI and product choice. Standing instruction: reject trespass and reject uncited ground truth. School-supervised.

R1: one AOI, one change question. R2: methods reproducible. R3: baseline date named. R4: resolution limits stated. R5: brief usable. R6: non-claim list.

(a) A heatmap with no uncertainty. (b) Fence-line photos as “data.”

Lane A immediately. No verified credit claim.