In my Spring 2016 GEO 406 class (Field Studies in Geography), I assigned a temperature mapping project. The students were asked to use an
iButton temperature sensor and the phone app
Live Trekker or
Motion X-GPS to record temperature and their position as they walked around campus. They had to design the sampling of the project and interpret their results in relation to how land covers impact temperature. Here is a map of temperatures on the UK campus.The undergraduate Geography majors who made this particular map are Philip Arness and Ben Mills. Temperature was recorded every minute. The students had to do a fair bit of database work to integrate the spatial and temporal data and then figure out the different ways to represent it in a map
