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Moscow University, Vorobjevy Gory: an aerospace atlas for school students Chalova E.R.,
This educational Atlas is developed at the Laboratory of Aerospace Methods of the Cartography and Geoinformatics department, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU).
The Atlas is designed primarily for MSU students, scientific personnel, graduates and guests; for students of the Young Geographers School at the Faculty of Geography, MSU; for similar schools at other MSU faculties, and for Moscow schoolchildren for use in the Moscow studies subject. Moreover the Atlas can be interesting for students and staff of the university as an original guidebook.
The second purpose of the Atlas is a practical familiarization with the aerospace images, training of the correct understanding of photographs and of the ability to obtain certain information from them. The application of the images in school education is a natural consequence of the latest developments in space research and of the wide applications of aerospace information for science and economic purposes.
The Atlas is based on aerospace images and consists of three parts. The first part presents the MSU location in Moscow, history and nature of University territory at Vorobievy (Leninskye) gory. Types of images, ways of image processing and thematic interpretation are described in the second part. The third part is devoted to the specific objects of the MSU campus and its neighbourhood and to the development of the new University territory.
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