Remote Sensing Related Web Sites

Directories

• Virtual Library: Cartography
• Virtual Library: Geography
• Geographic Information Systems and Related Sites at U of Waterloo Environmental Information Systems Project
• GPS Resource Library
• GPS Resources

Tutorials/Lecture Notes/FAQs

• GIS FAQ. Also available by ftp
• ARC/INFO Tutorial by Shane Murnion.
• AI-GEOSTATS FAQ - An FAQ on Geostatistics
• GIS and the Geographer's Craft from the Geography Dept, Univ Texas, Austin.
  • GIS: Context, Concepts, and Definitions.
  • Database Concepts - Discusses raster and vector methods, database file structure, and topological relationships.
  • GPS Overview
  • Geodetic Datum
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Map Projections
• DGPS HTML InQUEST, Quality Engineering and Survey Technology, UK. - A comprehensive and well illustrated tutorial on GPS and DGPS.
• Introduction to GPS Applications - This document is an introdution to the NAVSTAR and GLONASS Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and their uses.
• A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GPS (with emphasis on UTM) by Don M. Bartlett, Ottawa, Ont, Canada
• Keplerian Orbit Elements Tutorial

Resources

• Global Positioning System - US Coast Guard Navigation Center.
• Map Projection Home Page
• DEOS GPS Page - @ Delft University of Technology.
• GTOPO30 - USGS's Global 30 Arc Second Elevation Data Set (downloadable)
• Map Collection The Perry-Castaņeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
• Cartographic Reference Resources Perry-Castaņeda Library, Univ of Texas, Austin
• Digital Mapping Laboratory (MAPSLab), Computer Sci Dept, Carnegie Mellon University.
• National Atlas Information Service - Geomatics Canada.
• OGIS Project of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC).
• NGS National Geodetic Survey, USA

Software

• AI-GEOSTATS SoftFaq - List of available software & shareware commonly used for spatial statistics.
• PC Software at National Geodetic Survey (NGS), USA
• MADTRAN Mapping Datum Transformation Software Program, Defense Mapping Agency, USA
• MicroCAM MicroComputer Asissted Mapping Software

GPS Receivers

• Trimble Navigation
• Eagle