DAY 1: January 14, 2015 1109 Etcheverry Hall
9:00-9:30am:
Introductions
Course requirements
Equipment/Software check with students
9:30-9:50am:
“An Introduction and Overview of the International Nonproliferation Regime”
– Jeffrey Lewis
9:50-10:30am:
“Using Open Source Intelligence to Answer Nonproliferation and Disarmament Questions”
– Jeffrey Lewis
BREAK – 3105 Etcheverry Hall
Optional: Calculate the effects of a nuclear detonation with NUKEMAP.
10:45- 12:00pm
Exercise: ‘Buy’ some satellite imagery
– Melissa Hanham
o Open source government sites
o Commercial sites/ Digital Globe Foundation
LUNCH – 3105 Etcheverry Hall
1:00-2:00pm
“Introduction to Crowd-sourcing, Social Media, and other Data Mining”
– Jeffrey Lewis
2:00-2:30pm
– Jeffrey Lewis
2:30-3:00pm
Group Quiz: Where was this photo taken?
– Melissa Hanham
BREAK – 3105 Etcheverry Hall
Optional: play Geoguessr
3:15-4:15pm
“Google Earth Boot Camp”
– Melissa Hanham
Includes:
- Searching
- Using place marks, paths, and polygons
- Using the time slider
- Conducting measurements
- Image overlays
- Organizing your information in files
- Saving and Sending KMZ files
- Crowd-sourcing plug-ins: Wikimapia, GE Gallery, GE Community, Panoramio, Flickr
4:15-5:00pm
Case Studies: “Finding Defense Facilities in Myanmar and Reactors in China”
– Jeffery Lewis
DAY 2: January 15, 2015 1109 Etcheverry Hall
9:00-9:45am
“Introduction to Identifying Nuclear Facilities”
– Melissa Hanham
9:45-10:45am
“Introduction to Identifying Missile Facilities”
– Jeffrey Lewis
BREAK – 3105 Etcheverry Hall
Optional: take action with a Tomnod campaign.
11:00-12:00pm
“SketchUp Boot Camp”
– Melissa Hanham
Includes:
- Navigation with a scroll wheel mouse
- Orbit, zoom, and pan
- Pencil
- Shapes
- Arcs
- Push/Pull Tool
- Tape measure and grids
- Moving
- Scaling
- Components and Groups
- Follow-me tool
- Move tool
- 3D warehouse
- Geo-location
- Texturing
- Exporting models to Google Earth
LUNCH – 3105 Etcheverry Hall
1:00-2:00pm
Exercise: Modeling Pelindaba’s Building 5000
– Melissa Hanham
- Location: 25°48’39.97″S 27°55’31.28″E
- Ground Image: Photo
o Measure height using shadows
o Texture using ground images
o Downloading from 3D Warehouse
o Exporting to Google Earth
2:00-2:30pm
Case Study: “Where Does North Korea Build its Missile Launchers?”
– Jeffrey Lewis
BREAK – 3105 Etcheverry Hall
Optional: Sleuth from the internet and monitor seismic activity for nuke tests.
2:45-5:00pm
Pass/Fail Assignment: Build a simple facility of proliferation concern
– Melissa Hanham
o Geo-locate the facility
o Model & texture facility
o Export model to Google Earth
o Email the KMZ to the instructors
