Remote Sensing Related Web Sites

New in this Update

• EarthRISE: Searchable database of phtos of the Earth from space taken by astronauts out the windows of the Space Shuttle.
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• NOAA Polar Orbiter Data User's Guide

Directories

• Datacenter Descriptions from ESRIN/ESA - A description of the data center and its holdings, contact information, access procedures, ordering and price policies, and available distribution media is provided.

Resources

• European Space Agency (ESA)
  • ESA Homepage
  • ESRIN: European Space Agency's data handling and dissemination centre.
  • ESA Earth Observation
  • Earthnet Online ESA/ESRIN Earth Remote Sensing User Services
  • ERS-1/2
    • ERS-2 Mission Description
    • ERS-2 Technical Data
    • Joint operation of ERS-1 and ERS-2
    • FTP for software which allows viewing of the ERS-1 coverage of the whole earth, or a specific region.
    • ERS information
    • ERS-2's Ups and Downs
    • ERS-1/2 information and data products from Eurimage.
  • ENVISAT
  • ESA listing of Earth Observation sites from the European Space Agency
  • Ionia "1 km AVHRR Global Land Data Set" Net-Browser at ESRIN/ESA.
  • DownloadableLanddata from ESA
• NASA, USA
  • NASA Home Page
  • NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS)
  • Photos of Earth (from Space Shuttle)
    • SSEOP Space Shuttle Earth Observations Project Database of Photographic Information and Images.
    • Earth from Space: An astronaut's view of the home planet - Selected photos and related captions from The NASA Space Shuttle Earth Observations Photography database of over 250,000 images.
    • EarthRISE: Searchable database of phtos of the Earth from space taken by astronauts out the windows of the Space Shuttle.
  • Earth and Space Sciences Goddard Space Flight Center.
  • MTPE: NASA's Mission to Planet Earth
  • EOS Earth Observation Systems. and links to EOS DAAC sites
    • ASF Alaska SAR Facility - Polar Regions and SAR Data
    • EDC EROS Data Center, USGS - Land Processes
    • GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center - Upper Atmosphere, Global Biosphere and Atmospheric Dynamics
    • JPL Jet Propulson Lab - Physical Oceanography
    • LaRC Langely Research Center - Radiation Budget, Tropospheric Chemistry
    • MSFC Marshall Space Flight Center
    • NOAA-SAA
    • NSIDC National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO
    • ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    • CIESIN (SEDAC)
    • NASDA/EOC Earth Observing Center, Japan.
  • EOS - Earth Observation System - Project Science Office
  • JPL Imaging Radar
  • SIR-C/X-SAR
    • SIR-C Coverage Map
    • SIR-C Data
    • SIR-C/X-SAR images of Earth
  • JPL's Alaska SAR Facility Home Page (note: access limited)
  • MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer.
    • Technical Specifications
  • SeaWiFS Global Ocean Color Monitoring Mission
  • Stellar project.
  • NASA Global Change Directory
  • Pathfinder assorted data sets (e.g., AVHRR, SSM/I, etc) from NASA for Global Change monitoring
• USGS
  • USGS Earth and Environmental Science resources on the net
  • Eros Data Center home pages and links to other USGS sites
  • Products Available from the USGS EROS Data Center - conveniently summarized in tables.
  • Data Available from EDC (EROS Data Center)
  • EDC DAAC - Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, part of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)
• NOAA
  • NOAA Home Page
    • NESDIS - National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
    • NOAA Environmental Information Services
  • NOAA Polar Orbiter Data User's Guide
  • Wim Bakker NOOA Page
  • Polar Orbiter Data contains a lot of information about the AVHRR NOAA satellites
  • NOAA AVHRR data @ USGS - Description of the AVHRR sensor and data, includes: Coverage, Acquisition, Processing Steps, Spatial Resolution, Temporal Coverage, Spectral Range, Data Organization, Procedures for Obtaining Data.
  • GOES - Geostationary Operational Enviromental Satellites
  • NOAA Geostationary and Polar Orbiting Weather Satellites
• LANDSAT
  • Landsat Program Homepage
  • NASA GSFC Landsat Gateway. Another site (also at gsfc, with similar information) is maintained here.
  • The USGS EROS Data Center's Landsat Archive & Landsat Pathfinder
  • Landsat TM data @ USGS - Description of TM sensor and data
  • Landsat MSS data @ USGS - Description of MSS sensor and data
  • Landsat from CEPS, Smithonian Institution.
  • EOSAT Home Page - commercial branch of the U.S. Landsat remote sensing satellite program. Also market JERS, IRS and ERS data.
  • Technical Papers of Space Imaging/EOSAT, include Landsat data.
  • Digital Number (DN) to Radiance Conversion Procedures - This document provides users of Landsat 4 and 5 digital images with the methods and constants for converting from image digital numbers to radiance units for all eras of Thematic Mapper (TM) processing.
  • LANDSAT data products from Eurimage.
  • From the Office of the Press Secretary, White House:
    • Convergence of U.S. Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite Systems and Landsat Remote Sensing Strategy, May 10, 1994.
    • Fact Sheet - LANDSAT Remote Sensing Stragegy, May 10, 1994.
    • Fact Sheet - Convergence of U.S. Polar Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite Systems, May 10, 1994.
• Space Imaging
  • Space Imaging Home Page - Operator of commercial 1-m resolution satellite.
• Smallsat
  • NASA's SSTI Homepage - Small Satellite Technology Initiative
  • TRW's Lewis Satellite
  • CTA's Clark Satellite
• SPOT
  • SPOT IMAGE
  • SPOT IMAGE
  • SPOT High Resolution Visible Data at USGS
  • SPOT - References & On-line Guides Books (at www.belspo.be)
  • Spot (at www.vito.be)
  • SPOT High Resolution Visible Data (at www.dwe.csiro.au)
  • Satellite Oceanography Laboratory SPOT Images of the Island of Hawaii
  • SPOT (at www.eoc.nasda.go.jp)
  • VEGETATION Programme on SPOT 4 - CNES site
  • VEGETATION Programme on SPOT 4
• EURIMAGE
• NASDA, Japan
  • Meteorological and Earth Observation Satellites - NASDA
  • EORC Earth Observation Research Center.
    • Satellite Programs
    • EORC Data Gallery
    • EORC Data Library - Index of ftp data sites.
  • EOC - Earth Observation Center. English Main Menu
  • JERS-1
    • JERS-1 Data by ftp.
    • Borneo Mosaic
  • ADEOS
    • Directory of the ADEOS web pages at EORC
    • Sensors on board
      • NSCAT
  • ADEOS-II
    • ADEOS-II - at EOC
    • ADEOS-II at NASDA
    • ADEOS-II Home page at EORC.
    • Sensors on board
      • GLI Homepage
      • AMSR Homepage
      • GLI
      • POLDER
• Canada
  • Canada Space Agency
  • CCRS Canada Center for Remote Sensing
  • CCRS Spot/Landsat SceneBrowser.
  • RADARSAT Program Official WWW Server
  • RADARSAT Related Links
  • Radarsat @ccrs, descriptions, photos, sample images, abstracts of research papers ...
  • RADARSAT -- Ice Services of Environment Canada. Simulated RADARSAT image and a few pictures of the actual satellite in construction.
• CNES, France
  • CNES
  • CNES Scientific Projects
  • CNES Earth and Environmental Sciences.
• India
  • National Remote Sensing Agency, India
• SMIS Space Monitoring Information Support Lab of Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia. Raw telemetry data and coresponding browse images of NOAA HRPT acquisition station installed at SMIS LabNOAA HRPT acquisition station is installed at SMIS Lab are currently available.
• RESURS-O1
  • RESURS-O1 Quicklook browser at Eurimage.