SOME INTERESTING WWW PAGES
A Service for Members of The Remote Sensing Society
If you are not a member of The Remote Sensing Society, which provides
this service, why don't you go to our home page at The
Remote Sensing Society
This page was submitted from Paul
Mather, University of Nottingham. (last changed 3 July 1997). It
don't exist anymore at the address above. Many of the links my be extincted,
but nevertheless the knowledge of the existence of expressions and organisations
may be helpful.
The page provides links to WWW resources useful in remote sensing/Earth
observation and GIS including image processing, digital elevation models,
computing and algorithms, data sources, space centres and other relevant
organisations, neural net applications, satellites and sensors ...
Contents
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Data and Metadata Services, including document search
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Organisations
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Programmes
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Satellite Sensors/Systems
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GIS
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DEMs
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Techniques and Methods
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Earth and Environmental Science
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Computing and algorithms, etc.
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Odds and Ends
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Instruments (radiometers, etc.)
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People
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WWW tools
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Companies and other organisations providing software
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Other remote sensing and GIS WWW pages
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Publications
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Conferences
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Bibliographic Databases
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Applications
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Map Projections
1 Data and Metadata Services including document search
Australian (ACRES) Digital Catalogue
Agro-ecological
Information System, Technical Univ. of Munich
Alaska SAR facility
Australia Survey &
Land Information Group
AVHRR
1km Dataset Project
AVHRR
Global 10-day composites (ftp access)
US Bureau of Land Management
Metadata Service
Canadian National Atlas Information
Service
Centre for Earth Observation, CEO
CEO European Wide Service Exchange -
free text search engine
CEOS WGISS Yellow Pages - Excellent
tutorial guide and links to sensor details etc.
CINTEX
(CEOS Catalogue Interoperability) - links to EO catalogues incl. EOSDIS.
This is the CEO node
Dornier
(Germany) GEOIDS - Geographical Data Warehouse (Munich, L. Constance areas)
- Free!
EDUSPOT - educational service
giving access to SPOT quicklooks etc
EUMETSAT's home page
EUMETSAT
node to CINTEX (see CEO entry immediately above)
Committee on Earth Observation
Satellites, CEOS
CIESIN: Consortium for International
Earth Science Information Network
CIESIN (see above) New WWW Gateway
for free text search
Dundee QuickLook browser for
AVHRR archive
Environment & Natural Resources Monitoring
(G7): searchable database
EOSDIS V0
WWW Gateway - links to 9 NASA Data Centres
EOSDIS V0 Earth Science
Information Management System
EOSDIS/ESDIS
Home Page
EOSDIS
Version 0 IMS Home Page
EROS Data Center
ESA-ESRIN User Services
ESA Earth Observation Guide and
Directory Service
Eurimage catalogue/browser
Finnish National Land Survey
French meteorological
service (Meteo France) - same day Meteosat images
Gateway to Antarctica - Home
Page
GCDIS Homepage
Imagenet: access to EOSAT, SPOT &
Russian image archives
International Arctic Environmental
Data Directory
Ionia 1 km AVHRR Global Land
Data Set Net-Browser
ISIS - the DLR Intelligent
Satellite Information System
Japanese
(NASDA) Earth Observation Information System (EOIS)
Japanese Geographical Survey Institute
Knowledge-based Interface
to National Data Sets (Spatial Data about the United Kingdom)
Lakes - the MSSL-WCMC-UNEP
Global Lake and Catchment Conservation Database (Mullard Space Science
Laboratory)
Mojave Server: TM images, topo, hydological
datasets and bibliography for Mojave Desert area
MIDAS (Manchester Information Datasets
and Associated Services)
Modern
Average Global Sea-Surface Temperature
National Snow and
Ice Data Center, Colorado
NASA Earth Pages
NASA GLOBAL CHANGE MASTER DIRECTORY
NASA Spacelink
NASA Technical
Reports Server - NTRS - searches NASA database for technical reports, conference
proceedings etc.
NASA-NOAA Pathfinder
Data Sets
NEONET (Netherlands Earth Observation
Network)
NOAA/NASA AVHRR Oceans Pathfinder
Home Page
Oak Ridge DAAC for Biogeochemical
Dynamics
Oceanography Distributed
Active Archive Center (JPL)(Sea Surface Temperature data sets)
Ordnance Survey of Great Britain
Ordnance Survey
CampusWorld
SPOT Image
Tromsø Satellite Receiving Station,
Norway
Tropical
Forest Inventory Project (NASA MTPE/EOS), Univ. of New Hampshire/Maryland)
(Data sets available)
US Geological Survey
World
Data Center A for Remote Sensing Land Data
World Data Center
C (Glaciology)
World Data Center A: Atmospheric
Trace Gases (Oak Ridge Nat. Lab.)
Yale University Center
for Earth Observation - data set archive (TM, MSS, AVHRR etc.)
2 Organisations
Alliance for Marine Remote Sensing
ASPRS WWW Server
for GIS and Remote Sensing Information
British Antarctic Survey
British Geological Survey
British Library Portico Home Page
British National
Space Centre
Byrd Polar Research Center,
Ohio State University
(US) Central Intelligence Agency
a.k.a. CIA
Canada Centre
for Remote Sensing Home Page
CCRS (Canada Centre for Remote
Sensing)
Canadian Institute of Space
& Terrestrial Science
Centre de Geostatistique,
Ecole des Mines, Fontainebleu - Geostatistics links
Climate Prediction Center
Danish Centre for Remote Sensing
Delft Univ. of Technology/Space
Research & Technology (altimetry, orbits, GPS)
DFD/DLR: German Space Centre
Dundee Centre for Coastal
Zone Research
EOSAT (a.k.a. Space
Imaging EOSAT) Home Page
European Commission CORDIS Home Page
European Environmental Agency home
page
European Science Foundation
European Space
Agency
Geodata Unit, University of
Southampton, UK
German Climate Computing Centre
Institute
for Spatial Analysis, Univ. of Vechta, Germany: GIS/RS Home Page
Institute Geographique Nationale, IGN
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC)
Italian Space Agency
Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy
Leicester University,
UK, Earth Observation Science page
Manchester Computing Centre Home Page
Mullard Space Science Laboratory,
University College, London, Home Page
NASA Goddard Spaceflight
Center
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Observatorium - lots of
info, free TM images and software
Nansen Environmental & Remote
Sensing Centre, Bergen, Norway
NASDA English Home
Page
National Remote
Sensing Centre, Farnborough, UK
Natural Environment Research Council
Netherlands Geological
Survey - info on many parts of Western Europe etc. (English)
Netherlands
Space Research Organisation. Links to other sites, details of ongoing research
Norsk Polarinstitutt
Norwegian Space Centre
Slovak Environmental Agency
- some GIS/RS information
Space Science and Engineering Center,
Univ of Wisconsin
Space Monitoring Support Lab, Russia
Swedish Development Council for Land Information
- sister organisation of AGI
Swedish Land Survey
Swedish Space Corporation home page
The Department of Geography
at The University of Nottingham
UK Environmental Change Network
Zurich University Remote Sensing
Laboratories
US Geological Survey
US Global Change Research Information
Office
Utrecht - Faculty of Geographical
Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
VTT Automation - lots of remote
sensing information including a virtual library
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
3 Programmes
BOREAS (Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere
Study)
CEO Desertification
Project. Alternative site is http://ewse.jrc.it
Commercial Remote
Sensing Program, NASA
EOS Project Science Office
FIFE (First ISLSCP
Field Experiment)
GEWEX (Global Energy
and Water Cycle Experiment)
Global Land
One-km Base Elevation (GLOBE) Project - NOAA - 1km global DEM
Globe Visualisation
Project, NASA
HAPEX-Sahel Information
System
INFOTERRA: United
Nations Environment Programme
LOIS (Land-Ocean Interaction
Study of the NERC)
MARS Project for EC agricultural
monitoring - from the Agricultural Information System (AIS)
MEDALUS II: Desertification
in Mediterranean Europe
NASA
Mission to Planet Earth
NASA's Third WetNet Precipitation
Intercomparison Project (PIP-3)
Northern Hemisphere Climate-Processes
Land Surface Experiment
Public Use of Remote Sensing
Data (NASA)
Tropical
Rainfall Monitoring Mission
VEGETATION Preparatory
Programme
4 Satellite sensors/systems
ADEOS Home Page (see Press
Release for Death of Adeos, July 1997)
ATSR2 Home Page
AVNIR first image (on board Japanese
ADEOS spacecraft)
Canada
Centre for Remote Sensing: Spaceborne Imaging Spectrometer Sensor details
Almaz SAR imagery
technical details
AVHRR
AVHRR Pathfinder Home Page
AVHRR:
Global Land 1km AVHRR Dataset Project
Canada
Centre for Remote Sensing Satellite Information List
Earth
Science Pictures from NASA
Earthwatch Inc (Early
Bird high-res satellite)
Envisat Guide
(from DLR)
ERS SAR Calibration guide,
ESRIN
GLIS - USGS Global Land
Information System - includes declassified intelligence images
Goddard
DAAC CZCS (Coastal Zone Colour Scanner) WWW Page
High Resolution
Satellite Sensors: A Review (Mike Wulder, Univ of Waterloo, Canada)
Indian IRS-1C satellite
High
Resolution Sensors list from IGBP-DIS
Indian IRS-1C details and free sample
image of Tucson, AZ from EOSAT
LANDSAT_TM
Landsat Gateway (Goddard SFC).
Includes bibliography.
Landsat
programme details
Landsat
Pathfinder Page (Some nice data sets for teaching?)
TRW 'LEWIS'
hyperspectral imaging satellite - May 1997 launch
MODIS Airborne
Simulator
MOMS - German Modular
Optoelectronic Multispectral Scanner
NASA/JPL Imaging Radar Home
Page
Lots of information on
the NOAA/AVHRR
NOAA
Polar Satellite Information
NOAA Polar Orbiters
User Guide
Radar
remote sensing - extensive links (University of British Columbia)
RADARSAT WWW
Server
RADARSAT's First image
RESURS (Russian
sensor) details
SAR User's Guide (Alaska
SAR Facility)
SEAWIFS
(Sea Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor)
SEAWIFS
- latest news
SIR-C/X-SAR
SEAWIFS
browser at Goddard SFC
SIR-C/X-SAR:
Activities of the Institute of Oceanography at the University of Hamburg
Space
Mission Acronym List and Hyperlink Guide
Space Shuttle Hand-Held
Photography searchable archive
SPOT Image
SPOT
VEGETATION Preparatory
Programme
Wind Imaging Interferometer
5 GIS
Bureau of Land Management
(US Government) GIS Home Page (good links to GIS WWW sites)
Environmental GIS guide
for the neophyte
ESRI (Arc-Info)
Home Page
GRASS Home
Page
Infomine:
University of California Scholarly Internet Resource Collections: Maps
and GIS
Intergraph Corporation, USA
International Cartographic
Association - Commission on Visualisation
GIS Conference Proceedings
-- online
Searchable GIS
bibliographic database
GIS
and GIP Software Listing
GIS
bibliography at Ohio State
Guide to
GIS on the Internet (includes useful shareware/software guide) from Karlsruhe
Introduction
to GIS from the USGS IDRISI
Project Home Page
Japanese GIS/Mapping Science
Resources Guide
Kingston University
Centre for GIS
List of GIS WWW
servers
Introduction
to Arc-Info
MapInfo Inc.
National Center for Geographical
Information & Analysis (NCGIA)
PCRaster - integrating
GIS, environmental modelling & geostatistics
UNEP/GRID: Use of GIS in Agricultural
Research
WWW-Mapping-DBMS
Interface
GIS
vendors' address database - digitising
GIS
vendors' address database - software
6 DEMs
ANU-DEM from Australian National
University
Bruce Gittings's DEM
Catalogue
IPW software
- free! Includes programs for DEM manipulation
Terrain Visualisation
Software
TU
Berlin Guide to DEM
7 Techniques and methods
CLIPS: A Tool for Building
Expert Systems
CNES
Remote Sensing Image Processing Research
Colour
Technology Page by Charles Poynton
Defence Research
Agency (UK) Pattern and Information Processing Group
Geostatistics Home Page
(ai-geostats)
Interferometry
- useful article by Didier Massonnet from Scientific American
Neural Computing Research
Group, Aston University
Neural Networks (including
free software) from Univ. of Texas at Arlington
Neural
network project, University of Valladolid, Spain
Neural
Network resources on WWW
Neural Networks in Remote
Sensing Interest Group
Spatial
Interpolation - free software from Louvain
SAGA: Spatial
& Geometric Analysis Toolbox (for Matlab - shareware - 2D interpolation,
Delaunay triangulation etc.)
The Graphics Archive
The Wavelet Digest
8 Earth and Environmental Science
Australian Environmental Resources Information
Network
Caltech
Land Degradation and Remote Sensing Library
Desertification
Information Network Project
Earth
System Science bibliography of textbooks
Environmental
Resources - lots of links.
EPA Report
- The Probability of Sea Level Rise
Geomorphology
WWW resources
Geophysics
and Tectonophysics
GEOWEB: GIS, GPS and Remote Sensing
Hydrological
modelling and soil moisture mapping, using ERS-1 SAR
Hydrological resources
and modelling on WWW
Hyperspectral
Imaging Resources
International Association of Mathematical
Geology (also Computers and Geosciences)
Ocean Colour WWW Page
On-line Resources
for Earth Scientists
Texas A&M geoscience
site
Upper Midwest Gap
Analysis Home Page
VolcanoWorld Home Page
Virtual Geomorphology:
Links to many interesting articles/pages over a full range of topics
World Wide
Web links for Global Environmental Research
9 Computing, algorithms etc.
Algorithms,
Models and Software (AMS) Project, University of Nottingham
AI-Geostatistics Web
Site: software, articles, etc.
Algorithms (Fortran) from
Applied Statistics Cambridge
University Statistics Lab: some papers on geostatistics etc.
CHEST Software Page (UK academic
discounts on software)
ERDAS Image Processing Software
ER-MAPPER Image Processing Software
Computers and Geosciences - searchable
index
Research Systems ENVI image processing
software
File format details - definitive
page (bmp, tiff, etc.)
Jorg Arndt's home
page - useful source of code for FFT and other transforms
Khoros image processing software
Multispec
(Purdue University) - Mac and Windows image processing (free)
NASA Observatorium - lots of
info, free TM images and software
N.A. Software - CAESAR - image
processing for SAR data
Netlib - access to all kinds of
code for maths/stats
Neural Net
Web Links
O-Matrix - an analysis and
display program - statistics, plotting etc - free (Windows)
UK Mirror
site for Netlib
Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
Parallel Processing Group
PCI Home Page
PCI ftp site - upgrades, demo images
Pattern Recognition
and Neural Networks - home page for Ripley's eponymous book, including
source code for cluster analysis
SatTrack software
for orbital modelling
Shareware search
engine for DOS and Windows - search engine.
Software for calculating
solar illumination angles etc. from Mark Cresswell, Liverpool University
Software guide for
geosciences, including GIS, cartography and digital elevation models
S-PLUS for ARC/INFO:
Advanced statistics package (S-PLUS) added to GIS (ARC/INFO)
Tom's Home Page - everything you
need to know about PCs
US Bureau of Land Management
(GIS code, data, Arc-Info AMLs)
10 Odds and Ends (no offence to the originators!)
Acronym list from
NASA. See also NASA's
Glossary of Remote Sensing Terms. British
Rail searchable timetable - but look at a map first!
Coordinate systems: details
of datums from European Petroleum Group Design
Info - commercial site with access to engineering catalogues
Calculates distances
betwen places & other interesting pastimes
Federation of American
Scientists: Imaging Intelligence on the Web (some satellite imagery)
Geobooks Online Book Searching Catalogue
for GIS, Remote Sensing and Earth Sciences
Geography
Departments worldwide - a clickable list organised by country
ISO Archiving
Standards - Overview
Jones
Telecommunications and Multimedia Encyclopedia
Lockheed-Martin
satellite launch schedule
Lots
of references on Synthetic Aperture Radar from JPL
NASA Space Calendar
including satellite launch schedules
Space Telescope-European
Coordinating Facility Newsletter 22, February 1995
Community, Air
and Space Reports: News on Satellite Launches, etc.
Techexpo - includes Earth Observation
Magazine
The
Global Positioning System (GPS)
History
of Computers
Lots of Internet Search Engines
Remote
Sensing Acronyms and Abbreviations
Samples of satellite
imagery from Russia
Precision Farming Megalinks
Viruses listed
in alphabetical order (Symantec) - good bedtime reading
11 Instruments (radiometers, etc.)
Analytical Spectral Devices Inc - portable
spectroradiometers
12 People
Chris
Kidd, NASA GSFC
Paul M. Mather,
University of Nottingham
Remote Sensing Application
Consultants - staff details
13 WWW Tools
GeoJava: examples of, and links
to, Java applications
14 Companies, sources of software etc.
Atlantic Scientific Inc - Earthview radar
image processing software
Dornier Aerospace
- applications/techniques.
Earth Observation Sciences Ltd, UK
ENVI and IDL image processing software
ERDAS Image Processing Software
ER-MAPPER Image Processing Software
ESRI (Arc-Info)
Home Page
Freeware/shareware
SGI/Unix graphics software - details of lots of packages, how to get them
Geometric Technology Associates,
Geobytes Newsletter
Generic Mapping
Tools freeware from Hawaii. Click here for the European
ftp site for GMT
Gnuplot -
freeware function plotting utility (DOS, Unix and VMS)
Gnuplot UK ftp site at
Southampton
I-cubed, Ft Collins, CO (Information
Integration and Imaging)
Image Alchemy - file format conversions
Image Tool (IT) from Univ of Texas
Health Science Center at San Antonio - Win95/NT - freeware
Infocarto: Spanish GIS/remote sensing
consultancy
Institute Geographique Nationale - IGN,
France; some road extraction algorithms (in French)
Intergraph Corporation, USA
Intergraph
UK Ltd
IPW software
- free - from EPA (USA). Runs under Unix!
IPW - how to get
this free software (image processing, DEM manipulation)
I.S. Ltd
- UK distributors for PCI EasiPace and Roots digitising etc. etc.
MapInfo Inc.
ImageTool for Win95
and NT from University of Texas Health Science Center
ImagePro Plus software for PCs
NASA Observatorium - lots of
info, free TM images and software
N.A. Software - CAESAR - image
processing for SAR data
NIH Image software for
Mac from National Institute of Mental Health
PCI (including ftp site)
Satellite Observing Systems -
look here for marine applications
Silicon Graphics UK home page
SPOT Image
SPOT Image Company
Taylor & Francis, Publishers
of International Journal of Remote Sensing
TNT-MIPS image processing (Microimages)
Tydac Technologies (SPANS GIS) Univ.
of California, Davis, Remote Sensing Group Software page - details of packages.
Watson's NNGRIDR
software (in book form - C code) for 2D interpolation
Wavelet transform software (image compression)
from Summus Ltd.
Xerox Park
Map Viewer - allows selection of World/USA map from HTML
15 Other remote sensing and GIS WWW pages
Bibliography on
pattern recognition (search engine) at Delft Tech. University
David Osborne's
Geography, GIS, Remote Sensing and Earth Sciences Links
Geography WWW sites
IEEE publications
- contents list
Macaulay
Institute(Chris Skelsey): details of expert systems, GIS and image processing
for land cover
Manchester University's excellent
guide to Remote Sensing
Rawhide
Space Page (Brian Webb) - includes Vandenberg AFB launch schedules
Remote
sensing guide from Stephen Braganza - details of sensors, companies, etc.
etc. etc.
Research
in remote sensing (Louvain)
RS Information
Page
Scicentral science page - good
links for RS/GIS
VTT Automation - Extensive list
of links
Wim Bakker's pages at ITC - lots
of good links!
16 Publications
EOS - Transactions
of the American Geophysical Union Electronic Supplement
ESA publications,
including Earth Observation Quarterly
Earth Observation Magazine Online
Institute of British Geographers
- Online Transactions
JPL's Basics of
Spaceflight online book - everything you wanted to know about space, EMR,
etc. etc...!
Kluwer Academic Publishers (GeoInformatica
journal and others)
N.A. Software
- SAR research papers
Our Changing Planet - FY96 -
US Global Change Research Programme
17 Conferences
Global Change Calendar
of meetings, conferences etc. - provided by NASA
Remote
Sensing Society list of forthcoming conferences
18 Bibliographic Databases
GIS bibliography
at Ohio State
GIS bibliographic
database at Edinburgh
Pattern
Recognition bibliographic database at TU Delft
19 Applications
Agricultural Information System
(AIS) incl. MARS Project details
20 Map Projections
Many GIF files
illustrating map projections provided by Paul B. Anderson. See Readme.Txt
Describes
a CD ROM containing mapping software & datasets available on CDROM
Map Projection
Home Page by Karen Mulcahy, Hunter College, CUNY