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Index
Remote Sensing: General Info
Satellite-Based
Land/Ocean
Atmosphere/Weather
Airborne
Other Platforms
Image Processing Data Formats
Image Processing Software
Visualization Software
Geographic Information Systems: General Info
Tutorials Online
Applications in Modeling
Standards
Data Formats-Public Domain
Raster-GIS Software
Vector-GIS (and related) Software
Satellite-Based Radio Positioning & Tracking
Astrodynamic/Mission-Planning Software
Earth Modeling/Conversion
Map Projections
Software Toolkits
Public Domain Geospatial Databases (* = limited to USA coverage only)
General Info
NASA Remote Sensing Tutorial (http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/TofC/Coverpage.html)
NOAA Basics of Remote Sensing(weathersats)
http://orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov/ora/fpdt1/1_intro/chap1.html)
NASA Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar (http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/desc/imagingradarv3.html)
WWW Virtual Library, Remote Sensing (http://www.vtt.fi/aut/ava/rs/virtual/)
American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing(http://www.asprs.org)
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
(http://www.p.igp.ethz.ch/isprs/)
American Geophysical Union (http://earth.agu.org/kosmos/homepage.html)
IEEE/GRSS (http://www.ieee.org/grs/index.html)
NASA/RSD (http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/rsd/)
NASA/SSC/CRSP (http://www.crsp.ssc.nasa.gov/index.html)
Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing (http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca)
U.S. Global Change Research Project (http://www.usgcrp.gov)
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (http://www.ucar.edu)
Archaeological Remote Sensing Consortium (http://eleftheria.stcloud.msus.edu/ arsc/
NASA Remote Sensing Glossary (http://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/glossary.html)
NASA Acronym Gateway (http://haleakala.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/acrom.sh)
EOSDIS Acronym List (http://www-v0ims.gsfc.nasa.gov/v0ims/Acronyms.html)
Satellite-Based General Info
Satellite Imagery FAQ Page http://www.geog.nottingham.ac.uk/remote/satfaq.html)
FAS Spysats Page (http://www.fas.org/eye/imint.html)
Land/Ocean
Landsat Program, NASA (http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sge/landsat/landsat.html)
Landsat 4-5, TM, Proprietary Data (http://www.spaceimaging.com)
Landsat 1-5, MSS and TM, Public Domain Data (http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/webglis/)
Landsat-7 ETM+, Public Domain Data http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sge/landsat/l7.html)
AM-1 ASTER (http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov)
AM-1 MODIS (http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODIS/MODIS.html)
SPOT (http://www.spot.com)
IRS (http://www.stph.net/nrsa/)
IRS, North American Data (http://www.spaceimaging.com)
Nimbus-7, CZCS (http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DATASET_DOCS/ZCS_dataset.html)
SeaStar (OrbView-2), Commercial data
(http://www.orbimage.com/satellite/satellite.html)
SeaStar, Non-Commercial Data http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html)
RESURS-O (http://sputnik.infospace.ru/resurs/engl/resurs.htm)
RESURS-O, International Data (http://www.ssc.se/sb/resurs/index.html)
RESURS-O, North American Data (http://cogno.com/silvana-x/Main/)
CIA/CORONA (http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/webglis/
COSMOS, KVR1000, TK350 (http://www.sovinformsputnik.com)
Almaz (http://dula.com/Almaz/default.html)
IKONOS-1 (http://www.spaceimaging.com)
QuickBird (http://www.digitalglobe.com)
SPIN-2 (http://www.spin-2.com)
EROS (http://coresw.com/WIS/index.html)
Radarsat (http://radarsat.space.gc.ca)
Envisat (http://envisat.estec.esa.nl)
ERS 1-2 (http://earth1.esrin.esa.it/ERS/)
JERS-1 (http://www.eorc.nasda.go.jp/JERS-1/index.html)
ADEOS-I (http://mentor.eorc.nasda.go.jp/ADEOS/index.html)
ADEOS-II http://yyy.tksc.nasda.go.jp/Home/This/This-e/adeos2-e.html)
Atmosphere/Weather
GeostationaryGOES (http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/)
Meteosat (http://www.eumetsat.de/eu/)
GMS (http://yyy.tksc.nasda.go.jp/Home/This/This-e/gms_e.html)
GOMS (http://sputnik.infospace.ru/goms/engl/goms_e.htm)
FY-2 (http://nsmc.cma.gov.cn)Polar-Orbiting
TIROS, AVHRR (http://psbsgi1.nesdis.noaa.gov:8080/EBB/ml/genlsatl.html)
TRMM (http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_office/index.html)
DMSP (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html)
OrbView-1 (http://www.orbimage.com/satellite/satellite.html)
Meteor (http://sputnik.infospace.ru/meteor/engl/meteor.htm)
Okean (http://sputnik.infospace.ru/ocean/engl/ocean.html)
METOP (http://www.esrin.esa.it:80/esa/progs/METOP.html)
MOS (http://yyy.tksc.nasda.go.jp/Home/This/This-e/mos_e.html)
Amateur Satellites, UOSAT, etc. (http://www.amsat.org)Airborne
NASA Airborne Sensor Facility (http://asapdata.arc.nasa.gov)
NASA AIRSAR Page (http://airsar.jpl.nasa.gov)
NASA Airborne Missions (http://www.earth.nasa.gov/missions/airborne.html)
UCAR Remote Sensing Facility (http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rsf/rsf_home.html)
ERIM (http://www.erim-int.com)
AVIRIS (http://makalu.jpl.nasa.gov)
MAS (http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODIS/MAS/Home.html)
MASTER (http://masterweb.jpl.nasa.gov)
USGS Aerial Photography, NAPP, DOQ (http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/products/1product.html#sky)
EMAC (http://www.estec.esa.nl/vrwww/emac/index.html)Other Platforms
International Space Station (http://shuttle.nasa.gov/station/index.html)
Space Shuttle (http://shuttle.nasa.gov/index-n.html)
EOSS, balloons, kites (http://www.eoss.org)
Image Processing:
Data Formats-Public Domain
HDF Home Page (http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu)
GSFC HDF Page (http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/REFERENCE_DOCS/HDF/gdaac_hdf.html)
HDF Info (http://www.HDFinfo.com)
HDF-EOS Home Page (http:/hdfeos.gsfc.nasa.gov/hdfeos/workshop.html)
GRIB Home Page (http://www.wmo.ch/grib/)
NetCDF Home Page (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/index.html)
CDF Home Page (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cdf/cdf_home.html)
NITF Home Page (http://164.214.2.59/NITFS/)
PNG Home Page (http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/)
JPEG Home Page (http://www.jpeg.org/public/jpeghome.htm)Image Processing Software-Public Domain
IMTOOLS (http://www.sdsc.edu)
ELAS (http://www.nttc.edu/software/)
GEMPAK (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/index.html)
SeaDAS (http://seadas.gsfc.nasa.gov)
SEAPAK (http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/OB_SEAPAK.html)
GRADS (http://grads.iges.org/grads/head.html)
MIPS (http://goblin.wr.usgs.gov/TRS/software/mips/)
GeoVu (http://zenith.ngdc.noaa.gov:80/seg/geovu/faq.shtml)
McIDAS (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/index.html)Image Processing Software-Proprietary
ERDAS, Imagine (http://www.erdas.com)
Research Systems, IDL (http://www.rsinc.com)
Autometric, OrthoKork, OrthoMAX, etc. (http://www.autometric.com)
Carl Zeiss, PHODIS, etc. (http://www.czi.com)
MathWorks (http://www.mathworks.com)
Paragon Imaging, ELT (http://www.paragon.com)
SPRING (http://sputnik.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/home.html)
PCI, EASI/PACE, OrthoEngine, etc. (http://www.pci.on.ca)
Visualization Software-Public Domain
Visualization Tutorial (http://hyperg.uni-paderborn.de/0x83ea6001_0x0001b534;sk=E1BFDA92/)
Extended VISU (http://trophy.geol.ku.dk/zhou/visu-2.1)
LinkWinds (http://linkwinds.jpl.nasa.gov)
VIS5D (ftp://iris.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/www/vis5d.html)
Visualization Software-Proprietary
Research Systems, IDL (http://www.rsinc.com)
AVS (http://www.avs.com)
Fortner (http://www.fortner.com)
DX (http://www.almaden.ibm.com/dx/DXHome.html)
Geographic Information Systems:
General InfoUSGS GIS Page (http://info.er.usgs.gov/research/gis/title.html)
GIS Master Bibliography (http://paradise.sbs.ohio-state.edu/osugisbib/)
GIS/LIS (trade shows) (http://www.gislis.org)
GITA (AM/FM International) (http://www.amfmintl.org)
BLM Geospatial Page (http://www.blm.gov/gis/)
NSDI (http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html)
USGS GAP Home Page (http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/gap/index.htm)
EPA EMAP (http://earth1.epa.gov/emap/)
EPA MRLC (www.epa.gov/grd/mrlc/)
UCGIS (http://www.ucgis.org)
NSF/NCGIA (http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu)
Open GIS Consortium (http://www.opengis.org)
Digital Library Initiative (http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/national.htm)
GeoInfo Systems (http://www.geoinfosystems.com)
GIS World (http://www.gisworld.com)
AAG (http://www.aag.org)
URISA (http://www.urisa.org)
EUROGI (http://www.eurogi.org)
UNEP/GRID (http://grid2.cr.usgs.gov)IDRISI Tutorial (http://www.sbg.ac.at/geo/idrisi/wwwtutor/tuthome.htm)
ENVI Tutorial (http://www.envi-sw.com/e-tutor.htm)
ARC-INFO Tutorial (http://boris.qub.ac.uk/shane/arc/ARChome.html; also mirrored at http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/arcinfo/aiwwwtut/ ARChome.html)
U.I.U.C ArcView Tutorial (http://imlab9.landarch.uiuc.edu/~eslarp/gis/arcview/ index.htm)
CalTech ArcView Tutorial (http://mars2.caltech.edu/sil/tools/arcview/arcview.html)
USGS MODFLOW, SUTRA, etc. (hydrological) (http://water.usgs.gov/software/)
Purdue AGNPS-GRASS Interface (hydrological) (http://soils.ecn.purdue.edu/~aggrass/agnps/)
UF AEGIS (crop growth) (http://www.agen.ufl.edu/~luyten/aegis/)
UN GWW (groundwater) (http://www.un.org/Pubs/whatsnew/e95076.htm)
ARGUS (hydrogeological GIS/modeling linkage software) (http://www.argusint.com)
U.W. UVIEW, LMS, SVS, etc. (forestry) (http://sylvae.cfr.washington.edu/index.html)
U.I.U.C. SmartForest (forestry) (http://www.imlab.uiuc.edu/smartforest/)
PBS Blast Mapper www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/bomb/sfeature/blastmap.html)
FGDC (data, metadata) (http://www.fgdc.gov)
SDTS (data) (http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/sdts/)
NASA GCMD (metadata) (http://gcmd.nasa.gov)
NASA PDS (data, metadata) (http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/stdref/)
USGS NMP (NMAS, etc.) (http://mapping.usgs.gov/standards/index.html)
NITFS (data) (http://164.214.2.59:80/NITFS/)
SAIF (data) (http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/gdbc/fmebc/saifintro.htm)
ASPRS (q.v.)GeoTIFF (http://home.earthlink.net/~ritter/geotiff/geotiff.html)
USGS DLG, DEM, DOQ, etc. (http://mcmc.er.usgs.gov/sdts/implement.html)
USBOC TIGER (http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/)
NIMA VPF (http://164.214.2.59:80/vpfproto/index.htm)
GRASS (q.v.)Raster-GIS Software-Public Domain
USACE GRASS (http://www.baylor.edu/~grass/)
O.S.U. OSU-MAP (http//www.geography.ohio-state.edu/osumap/)Raster-GIS Software-Proprietary
ERDAS, Imagine (http://www.erdas.com)
Blue Marble (http://www.bluemarblegeo.com/index.htm)
INPE, SPRING (http://sputnik.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/home.html)
PCI, EASI/PACE, OrthoEngine, etc. (http://www.pci.on.ca)
IDRISI (http://www.clarklabs.org)
ENVI (http://www.envi-sw.com)
ER-Mapper (http://www.ermapper.com)
Vector-GIS (and related) Software-Public Domain
NIMA MUSE (http://164.214.2.59:80/SW_TOOLS/NIMAMUSE/)
NOAA/U.H. GMT (http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/)
USBOC LandViewIII (http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/lv3desc.html)
FMEBC (http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/gdbc/fmebc/)Vector-GIS (and related) Software-Proprietary
ESRI ARC-INFO, ArcView, etc. (http://www.esri.com)
Intergraph MGE, etc. (http://www.intergraph.com)
Genasys (http://www.genasys.com)
Laser-Scan Gothic (http://www.lsl.co.uk)
MapInfo (http://www.mapinfo.com)CAD-Proprietary
AutoCAD (http://www.autodesk.com)
MicroStation (http://www.bentley.com)
Satellite-Based Radio Positioning & Tracking:
General Info
USCG Navigation Page (http://www.navcen.uscg.mil)
Navtech (http://www.navtechgps.com)GPS
GPS Home Page (http://www.laafb.af.mil/SMC/CZ/homepage/)
USNO GPS Info Page (http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/gpsinfo.html)
Institute of Navigation (http://www.ION.inter.net)
UCAR GST/UNAVCO (http://www.gst.ucar.edu)
Dana GPS Page (http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft/notes/gps/gps.html)
GPS World (http://www.gpsworld.com)GLONASS
GLONASS Home Page (http://mx.iki.rssi.ru/SFCSIC/SFCSIC_main.html)ARGOS
ARGOS Home Page (http://www.argosinc.com)COSPAS/SARSAT
COSPAS/SARSAT Home Page (http://www.cospas-sarsat.org/cospas-sarsat/)
NOAA SARSAT Page (http://psbsgi1.nesdis.noaa.gov:8080/SARSAT/ homepage.html)Astrodynamic/Mission-Planning Software
STK/VO (http//www.stk.com)
SPICE (http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/naif.html)
XEPHEM (http://iraf.noao.edu/~ecdowney/xephem.html)
GGS (http://lasp.colorado.edu/ggs/ggs_toc.html)NGS Geoid Page (http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/GEOID/geoid.html)
NIMA Datum Page (and MADTRAN) (http://www.nima.mil/publications/guides/)
Dana Datum Page (http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft/notes/datum/ datum.html)
USGS (GCTPC, CORPSCON) (http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/html/ cartsoft.html)
SeisSoft (http://www.connect.net/jbanta)Dana Coordinate System Page (http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft/notes/coordsys/coordsys.html)
Dana Map Projection Page (http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft/notes/ mapproj/mapproj.html)HDF Toolkit (http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/tools/html)
HDF-EOS Toolkit (http://hdfeos.gsfc.nasa.gov/hdfeos/workshop.html)
FreeForm (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov:80/freeform/freeform.html)Public Domain Geospatial Databases (* = limited to USA coverage only)
*USDA NRCS (soils) (http://www.ncg.nrcs.usda.gov/nsdi_node2.html)
*USDA FS (forests) (http://www.epa.gov/docs/grd/forest_inventory/)
*USFWS NWI (wetlands) (http://www.nwi.fws.gov)
*EPA MRLC (landcover) (http://www.epa.gov/mrlc/Databases.html)
*EPA GRD, TRI, GIRAS (pollution) (http://www.epa.gov/docs/oppe/spatial.html)
HRCD (coastline) (see NOAA/U.H. GMT)
*USBOC TIGER (demographic, etc.) (http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/geo/www/tiger/)
*USGS DEM, DOQ, DLG, etc. (topographic, etc.) (http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html)
NIMA VMAP0 (coastline, demography, roads, etc.) (http://164.214.2.59:80/ publications/vmap0.html)
NIMA DNC (coastline, coastal features, etc.) (http://164.214.2.59/org/gic/ products/dnc.html)
GLCC (1 km landcover) (http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/glcc/glcc.html)
GTOPO30 (1 km elevation) (http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/gtopo30/ gtopo30.html)
CEOS IDN (soils, etc.) (http://www.neonet.nl/ceos-idn/datasets/)
NOAA NGDC (topography, bathymetry) (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/ mggd.html)
UNEP GRID (demography, soils, etc.) (http://www.grida.no/db/gis/prod/html/toc.htm)