Remote Sensing Related Web Sites

Visualization/Image Processing/GIS

• AI-GEOSTATS SoftFaq - List of available software & shareware commonly used for spatial statistics.
• GIS (Geographical Information System) and GIP (Geographical Image Processing) Software Listing by Vinton Valentine
• ENVI
• ERDAS - IMAGINE image processing and visualization software
• Earth Resource Mapping (ER Mapper)
• ESRI - ARC/INFO, ARCView
• GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program - a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. T
• GMT - The Generic Mapping Tools A free, public-domain collection of ~50 UNIX tools that allow users to manipulate (x,y) and (x,y,z) data sets.
• IDL from Research Systems, Inc. and IDL Homepage at Univ. of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Lab.
• Khoros
• NIH Image A public domain image processing and analysis program for the Macintosh, developed at the Research Services Branch (RSB) of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
• PCI
  • PCIDSK Database Reference Manual - postscript version
  • PCIDSK C Toolkit for reading and writing PCIDSK format files
• PV-WAVE
• TerraScan - PC Windows based image display software, from Resource Industry Associates, Australia. Shareware version available.
• TNT MIPS
• MultiSpec - a processing system for interactively analyzing multispectral image data (e.g. Landsat) or hyperspectral data e.g. AVIRIS.
• Software at USGS Spectroscopy Lab - analyze spectra, display images, analyze imaging spectroscopy data, and related things.

Atmospheric Radiative Transfer and Electromagnetic Scattering

• Modtran codes from Geophysics Directorate, Phillips Laboratory, US Air Force.
• ONTAR Corp. - Commercial version of Modtran for PC/Windoows/Unix.
• 6S codes from NASA GSFC.
• SHDOM Spherical Harmonic Discrete Ordinate Method for Atmospheric Radiative Transfer, from the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer and Remote Sensing research group, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder.
• SBDART (Santa Barbara DISORT Atmospheric Radiative Transfer): A Practical Tool for Plane-Parallel Radiative Transfer in the Earth's Atmosphere - Earth Space Research Group, Institute for Computational Earth System Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
• ATCOR2 for ERDAS IMAGINEŽ: Atmospheric Correction and Haze Removal Product description for ATCOR2, originally developed by DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen. The integration into ERDAS IMAGINEŽ was done by GEOSYSTEMS.
• EMLIB at JPL. An anonymous ftp server for the free distribution of electromagnetics (EM) software and related information.
• Electromagnetic Scattering Codes.
• scatterlib: Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer Codes Library, and References.

Cartography

• PC Software at National Geodetic Survey (NGS), USA
• MADTRAN Mapping Datum Transformation Software Program, Defense Mapping Agency, USA
• MicroCAM MicroComputer Asissted Mapping Software

Interferometric SAR

• ASF/STEP's Interferometry Software

General Mathematical/Computational Software

• NIST Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS)
• NETLIB Mathematical Softwares
  • netlib.att.com
  • www.netlib.org
• Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator, University of Stuttgart. - available free of charge by ftp for research purposes under a GNU-style copyright agreement.
• MASTER Tools, developed by The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. are the result of on-going collaborations with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), George Mason University, and other education organizations. They are designed to be interactive tools and simulation environments that enable and encourage exploration and discovery through observation, conjecture, and modeling activities.