- ESA Atlante Scolastico

This table of contents is a short list of the Case Studies available in the ESA School Atlas. For additional information about the Case Studies follow the link to the respective sphere or directly to the Case Study:

Anthroposphere

Our world as modified by humanity

1. 1. Urbanisation
    - Las Vegas, USA – desert city with water issues
    - Suqian, China – rapid economic growth and urbanisation
    - Cairo, Egypt – city growth and cultural heritage
    - Doha, Qatar – city development in the desert
    - Niamey, Niger – growth of an African capital
    - Wenzhou, China – land reclamation in the East China Sea
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  2. Energy
    - Olkiluoto, Finland – nuclear power in northern Europe
    - Belo Monte, Brazil – hydropower plant in Amazonia
    - Tengger, China – solar power plant
    - Bhadla, India – solar power plant in the Thar desert
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  3. Traffic
    - Istanbul Airport, Türkiye – new intercontinental hub
    - Suez Canal, Egypt – bottleneck for shipping
    - Yangshan, China – international container harbour
    - Gibraltar, Spain – ship traffic and internal waves
      .

Biosphere

Our living environment

1. 1. Deforestation
    - Rondonia, Brazil – loss of rain forest
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  2. Agriculture
    - El Ejido, Spain – greenhouses and Mar de Plástico
    - New Valley, Egypt – agriculture in the desert
    - Ha’il, Saudi Arabia – fossile groundwater for irrigation
    - Taihu Lake – eutrophication and algal bloom
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  3. Nature protection
    - Donana, Spain – nature and agriculture as neighbors
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Lithosphere

The solid ground of our planet

1. Volcanos
  - Etna, Italy – Europes highest active volcano
  - La Palma, Spain – Eruption on a volcanic island
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2. Mining
  - Salar de Atacama, Chile – Lithium production on a salt lake
  - Bełchatów, Poland – Europe’s largest open pit lignite mine
  - Aitik, Sweden – open pit Copper mine in Scandinavia
  - Madre de Dios – gold mining in the Amazon Basin
    .

Hydrosphere

Issues around the element of life

1. Sea Surface Temperature
  - Europe – Sea Surface Temperatures
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2. Coastal Changes
  - Alexandria, Egypt – changing coastline at the Nile Delta
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3. Water supply
  - Lake Oroville, USA – water supply for California
  - Almendra Dam, Spain – water for Spain
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4. Fishery and Aquaculture
  - Tianjin, China – aquaculture at the Bohai Bay
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5. Floods and Flood Protection
  - Plattsmouth, USA – flood at a river junction
  - Derna, Libya – flash flood after heavy rain
  - Venice, Italy – protection of man and cultural heritage
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Atmosphere

Case studies about the air that we breathe

Climate and Climate Change

Signs of Climate Change in satellite data

1. Ice loss
  - Columbia Glacier, USA – retreating tidal glacier
  - Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland – shrinking Alpine glacier
  - Kilimanjaro, Tanzania – loss of a tropical glacier
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2. Natural Disasters
  - Southeast Australia, Australia – between bushfires and floods
  - British Columbia, Canada – forest fires get larger
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Satellite Remote Sensing

Properties of and methods with satellite data