'KIBO Hi-Vision EarthView' Educational System Development

摘要

"KIBO Hi-Vision EarthView" is a JSF lead Educational System enabling students, teachers, and the public toreceive "live" high definition television (Hi-Vision) images from KIBO, nick name of Japanese ExperimentalModule (JEM) of International Space Station (ISS). We expect that Hi-Vision images will be distributed to younggenerations of not only Japan but also any other countries, especially Asian and US. Our system development isstrongly supported by Japan Aerospace exploration Agency (JAXA) that planes to install 2 sets of Hi-Vision cameraon KIBO's exposed facility in 2012. High school or Junior High school students request to take live images ofspecific locations around the world. The live Hi-Vision image viewing and accompanying learning guides arefantastic resources to study global environmental problems, natural disasters, Earth and space science, geography,geology, social study, culture, communications, and so on. Our project was started from December 2009 with projectfund from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and we completed systemdevelopment at the end of March 2012. In this presentation, we would like to introduce our overall systemarchitectures and how it works.