Useful Web Sites for Imagery and Remote Sensing
There
are many useful internet sites for obtaining aerial photographs, digital
satellite data, and information on remote sensing. Below are listed a few of these. Please email me (helen.m.cox@csun.edu)
any useful sites you find, together with a short description, so I can add them
to this list.
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/
“The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
hosts the most complete online collection of astronaut photographs of the
Earth. Beginning with the Mercury missions in the early 1960s, astronauts have
taken photographs of the Earth. Our database tracks the locations, supporting
data, and digital images for these photographs. We process images coming down
from the Space Shuttle and International Space Station on a daily basis and add
them to the more than 458,329 (count updated monthly) views of the Earth
already made accessible on our website.”
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/ “Using a collection of satellite-based
observations, scientists and visualizers stitched
together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and
clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer of our
planet. These images are freely available to educators, scientists, museums,
and the public.”
http://www.earthimaging.com/ “In today's market the need for high quality
images on immediate demand has created the opportunity for earthimaging.com
to offer our collection of earth images over the Web. Download the perfect
image for advertising, news, editorial, and other professional uses.”
http://www.spaceimaging.com/ IKONOS data
http://www.livingearth.com/ “The Living Earth's (TLE)
priority is to produce and manage presentation quality, satellite imagery for
use in both consumer and commercial creative markets. A significant part of TLE is our extensive archive of digital imagery we have
collected over the past 10 years. Our current archive contains a comprehensive
collection of Earth imagery from AVHRR (1km & 4km resolutions), Landsat 5 and 7 (30m & 15m) and Night imagery (1km & 4km) from DMSP satellites. Other imagery that compliment our
archives: Digital Elevation Model (DEM), Bathymetry (Ocean Floor) and Mapping
Information (Digital Chart of the World, World Vector, Geo-political Boundaries
and GOES Cloud data.”
http://www.vterrain.org/ “The goal of VTP is
to foster the creation of tools for easily constructing any part of the real
world in interactive, 3D digital form.
This
goal will require a synergetic convergence of the fields of CAD, GIS, visual
simulation, surveying and remote sensing. VTP
gathers information and tracks progress in areas such as procedural scene
construction, feature extraction, and rendering algorithms. VTP writes and supports a set of software tools (VTP Toolbox) and an interactive runtime environment (VTP Enviro). The tools and
their source code are freely shared to help accelerate the adoption and development of the necessary
technologies.”
http://glcfapp.umiacs.umd.edu/ “The GLCF is a
member of NASA's Earth Science Information Partnership Federation (ESIP) program and, as such, is responsible for the development,
distribution, and archiving of novel Earth Science products and satellite
imagery. In an effort to meet general purpose uses as well as advanced research
needs, these data and products are made available in a variety of custom
formats. In addition, the GLCF provides a number of
on-line and other services to better meet the needs of a diverse user
community. The Global Land Cover
Facility makes available to the public a variety of free
science data products including satellite imagery of the Earth, classified
images of the Earth's land cover, and much more...”
http://www.globexplorer.com/ “Founded in 1999, GlobeXplorer
is the leading provider of satellite images and aerial photography via the
Internet. We offer quick, efficient and affordable access to
professional-quality images,.... We
maintain the world's largest commercial collection of aerial images.”
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/ “EarthExplorer is the USGS online data discovery tool that provides access to
millions of Satellite images, Aerial Photographs, Digital Cartographic data and
paper maps. EarthExplorer supports database querying,
product previewing, and credit card ordering.
High-resolution Orthoimagery for selected
cities is being added to the raster data sets available from the Seamless Data
Distribution System-Enhanced. This data is part of the urban area focus for The
National Map. The resolution of this imagery is .3 meters. It may be
downloaded free-of-charge for small areas or ordered at low-cost on CDROM or DVD.”
http://aria.arizona.edu/ “An interdisciplinary resource system for
digital image and map data for the Sonoran desert
region, including the US Southwest and northern
http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/ “3DEM is now a freeware
program and can be downloaded at no cost. Some features - Automatically Read and Merge USGS DEMs in tar.gz
format, Improved Support for Large Landsat 7 Image
Overlays, Large Scale GeoTiff Export for Use in GIS
Applications, Read and Write GeoTiff DEMs, Direct Support for California Topographic Maps, Direct
Support for NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission,
Save any geographic terrain as USGS ASCII format DEM
file, Plot Elevation Profiles from GPS tracks on the terrain surface.”
http://data.geocomm.com/ “The Premier Online Resource for GIS and GeoSpatial Data” (Free DEMs and DOQQs.)
http://edcimswww.cr.usgs.gov/pub/imswelcome/ See also http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/main.html.
Earth Observing System (EOS) Data Gateway. Distributed
http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/. NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) for satellite digital data from: Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
(AIRS), Pathfinder Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Land data, Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) data, Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere (LIMS) instrument, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS),
Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU), Ocean Color and
Temperature Sensor (OCTS), Sea-viewing Wide
Field-of-view Sensor (SEAWIFS), Solar Radiation and
Climate Experiment (SORCE), Surface Solar Irradiance
(SSI) data, Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS), TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS)
instrument, Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS)
data, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/
GOES satellite images
http://www.saa.noaa.gov/cocoon/nsaa/products/welcome NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s)
Satellite Active Archive. Part of NOAA's National Environmental
Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS).
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/.
SeaWifs home page
http://modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/.
MODIS home page
http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/.
ASTER home page
http://makalu.jpl.nasa.gov/.
AVIRIS home page
http://www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov/
MISR home page
http://landsat7.usgs.gov/index.php Landsat 7 home page
http://www.spot.com/ SPOT home page
http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/quikscat/quikindex.html Sea Winds Home Page
http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/elnino/index.html El Nino – sea temperature
Last Modified: 8 July 2003 by Helen Cox