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Title Adventures of Echo the Bat
Length/Year   2001
Media   Publication
Item Number   300.1-06P
Price   $6.00
 
This picture book of Echo the Bat teaches the concepts of remote sensing throughout a story of a young bat lost in Arizona. Pop-up images are incorporated into the satellite images to assist the child in recognizing land features narrated in the story. The book is accompanied by a set of activities that reinforce four basic themes or concepts fundamental to the interpretation of satellite imagery: perspective, shape and pattern, color, and texture.