------------------------------ Subject: Further Reading
The CIESIN Thematic Guide to Remote Sensing is an excellent introduction at http://www.ciesin.org/TG/RS/RS-home.html
CCRS have a beautiful set of annotated images (of Canada) on their pages, at http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/tour/toure.html. This presents a number of images - chiefly Landsat and SPOT - together with explanations of what can be seen in them, and why particular features appear the way they do.
------------------------------ Subject: I have a question that isn't covered in the FAQ
------------------------------ Subject: Related FAQs
------------------------------ Subject: Relevant Discussions on the Internet
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------------------------------ Subject: Terminology and Acronyms
------------------------------ Subject: Web pages
(these lists are very extensive)! Virtual Library: Earth Sciences http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/VL-EarthSciences.html Virtual Library: Environment http://ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu/Environment.html Virtual Library: Meteorology http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/DataSources/MetIndex.html Virtual Library: Oceanography http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/ocean/oceanography.html Virtual Library: Remote Sensing http://www.vtt.fi/aut/rs/virtual/ EINET Galaxy Geosciences http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Science/Geosciences.html And the huge list of Maarten Zeylmans van Emmichoven http://www.frw.ruu.nl/nicegeo.html Bill Corner's guide is a relative newcomer that's shorter but rather nice http://www.man.ac.uk/Arts/geography/rs/
CNES Homepage (french only) http://www.cnes.fr/ Earth Observation (incl SPOT) http://www.cnes.fr/scripts/observat.html
Homepage http://hp835.mt.asi.it/
Front Page http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/homepge.html RADARSAT http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/radarsat/rsate.html GCNet http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/gcnet/gcnet_e.html
CIESIN Front Page http://infoserver.ciesin.org/ Global Change Database http://wwwgateway.ciesin.org/
English Front Page http://pid.da.op.dlr.de/welcome.html ISIS http://pid.da.op.dlr.de/ISIS/Intro.html
ESA Front Page http://www.esrin.esa.it/ ESRIN Front Page http://www.esrin.esa.it/htdocs/esrin/esrin.html GDS (Guide & Directory Service) http://gds.esrin.esa.it/ UsERServices http://services.esrin.esa.it/ Ionia Browser http://shark1.esrin.esa.it/ Multi-mission Browse Service http://tracy.esrin.esa.it:8001/www/ (prototype: availability intermittent)availability intermittent) European Earth Observation System http://gds.esrin.esa.it/CEEOS_ROOT Environmental & Global Change Infoservers http://gds.esrin.esa.it/CGCservers ESA Publications http://esapub.esrin.esa.it/
Centre for Earth Observation http://ceo-www.jrc.it/ European Wide Service Exchange http://ewse.ceo.org/ Marine Environment Unit http://me-www.jrc.it/home.html Environmental and Natural Resources Management http://enrm.ceo.org/
Front Page http://www.inpe.br/
NASA Homepage http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html NASA Internet connection http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/nasa/NASAInternet.html NASA Pathfinder Program http://xtreme.gsfc.nasa.gov/pathfinder/ Global Change Data Center http://ame.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcdc/gcdc.html Global Change Master Directory http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Public Use of Remote Sensing Data http://camille.gsfc.nasa.gov/rsd/
EOS Front Page http://eos.nasa.gov/ EOSDIS http://spso2.gsfc.nasa.gov/spso_homepage.html EOSDIS Core System (ECS) http://ecsinfo.hitc.com/ EOSDIS IMS http://harp.gsfc.nasa.gov/ims-bin/pub/imswelcome MTPE Mission to Planet Earth http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/mtpe/Major reports on MTPE are available at http://www.nas.edu/ssb/cesmenu.html and http://www.gcrio.org/USGCRP/LaJolla/cover.html
The Distibuted Active Archive Centers (DAACs) are subject-oriented repositories for imagery and related info.
ASF DAAC (Polar processes) http://www.asf.alaska.edu/ CIESIN SEDAC (social aspects) http://sedac.ciesin.org/ EDC DAAC (Land) http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/landdaac.html JPL DAAC (Oceanography) http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov/ LARC DAAC (Atmosphere/radiation) http://eosdis.larc.nasa.gov/ MSFC DAAC (Hydrology) http://wwwdaac.msfc.nasa.gov:/ NOAA SAA (AVHRR) http://www.saa.noaa.gov/ NSIDC DAAC (snow & ice) http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/NASA/GUIDE/ ORNL DAAC (biogeochemical) http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov/ GSFC DAAC (atmosphere/biosphere) http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/
NCAR Front Page http://www.ucar.edu/ NCAR Data Archive http://www.ucar.edu/dss/index.html
NOAA Front Page http://www.noaa.gov/ NESDIS http://www.noaa.gov/nesdis/nesdis.html National Climatic Data Center http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ncdc.html National Geophysical Data Center http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ngdc.html National Oceanographic Data Center http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/ NOAA Geosciences Laboratory http://www.grdl.noaa.gov/ Satellite Active Archive http://www.saa.noaa.gov/
NASDA Front Page http://hdsn.eoc.nasda.go.jp/ EUS/Guide (SYNFONIA-II) http://www.eoc.nasda.go.jp/guide/eus/index.html
SSC Front Page http://www.ssc.se/
USGS Front Page http://info.er.usgs.gov/ Eros Data Center http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/eros-home.html GLIS http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/glis/glis.html
IEEE Geoscience/Remote Sensing http://www.ieee.org/grs/index.html Euro. Assoc. R.S. Labs (EARSeL) http://gds.esrin.esa.it/Cearsel_root Intnl. Soc. Optical Eng. (SPIE) http://www.spie.org/ European Optical Society (EOS) http://www-eos.unine.ch/ Optical Soc. of America (OSA) http://www.osa.org/homepage.html Intnl. Soc. Photogrammetry & RS http://www.p.igp.ethz.ch/isprs/isprs.html Remote Sensing Society (UK) http://www.geog.nott.ac.uk/rss/index.html Finnish Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing http://foto.hut.fi/seura/fsprs.html Russian GIS Association http://www.ru/gisa OpenGIS Consortium http://www.opengis.org/ GIS World (magazine) http://www.gisworld.com/ Earth Observation Magazine http://www.techexpo.com/toc/eom.html The Electronic Atlas http://www.electronic-atlas.com/
Free University of Berlin http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/english/index.html University of Dundee http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/ University of Minnesota http://www.gis.umn.edu/ University of Hawaii http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/ Univ. Colorado Climate http://noaacdc.colorado.edu/cdc/cdc_home.html Delft University of Technology http://dutlru8.lr.tudelft.nl/ University of Nottingham http://www.geog.nottingham.ac.uk/ University of Stuttgart http://www.ifp.uni-stuttgart.de/ University of Wisconsin-Madison http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/ University of Delaware http://triton.cms.udel.edu/crs/crs.html Cornell EOS project http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/EOS.html Universitaet des Saarlandes http://www.uni-sb.de/philfak/fb6/fr66/tpw/english.htm Helsinki University of Technology http://foto.hut.fi/ International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences http://www.itc.nl/ Environmental Research Institute of Michigan http://www.erim.org/ National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/ Space Monitoring Information Support laboratory http://smis.iki.rssi.ru/ National Land Survey of Finland http://www.nls.fi/index_e.html Global Change Research Information Office (USA) http://www.gcrio.org/ Space Research Organisation Netherlands (Earth Observation) http://www.sron.ruu.nl/general/divisions/eos/
Eurimage http://www.eurimage.it/ Core SW ImageNet http://www.coresw.com/ C.E.N. Digital Satellite Images http://cen.cenet.com/htmls/d2/sate.htm Satellite Observing Systems http://www.satobsys.co.uk/ The Geo Exchange http://web20.mindlink.net/geo_exchange Mountains West Consulting http://165.90.138.3/~tcsmith/index.html Able Software Co http://world.std.com/~able Clyde Consulting http://world.std.com/~able/clyde1.html Geomatics International http://www.geomatics.com/ VYSOR Integration Inc http://www.synapse.net/~vysor/ Zilker Internet Park (was TAMU) http://www.zilker.net/~hal/geoscience/ MacDonald Dettweiler http://www.mda.ca/ GeoWeb http://www.ggrweb.com/ ASD inc. http://www.asdi.com/asd VTT Remote Sensing http://www.vtt.fi/aut/rs/ ESRI http://www.esri.com/esri.html PCI http://www.pci.on.ca/ ERDAS http://www.erdas.com/ Intergraph http://www.intergraph.com/ Earth Resource Mapping http://www.ermapper.com/ SPOT Image http://www.spotimage.fr/ (France) http://www.spot.com/ (USA) Spatial Information Customer Support Center (SDCSC) http://www.sdcsc.com/ Earthwatch, inc http://www.digitalglobe.com/ewhome.html Intermountain Digital Imaging http://www.xmission.com/~idi Space Russia http://www.conveyor.com/space_russia/index.html Imagelinks http://www.imagelinks.com/ Space Information 2 meter http://www.spin-2.com/
------------------------------ Subject: Catalogues/Inventories
These are catalogue login services available by telnet. Serious users of these may wish to take advantage of one of the CINTEX GUI clients - DLR ISIS, ESA UIT or NASA IMS.
CINTEX entry points available via WWW include:
CCRS: telnet gcnet.ccrs.emr.ca Login as "gcnet" DLR: telnet 129.247.162.47 Login as "dlrpid" ESA: telnet epocat.esrin.esa.it Login as "leda" (LEDA), "catalogue" (Earthnet), "esapid" (IDN) NASA: telnet nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov Login as "gcdir" (GCMD/IDN), "nodis" (NODIS), "nssdc" NASA EOS - the DAACS ASF telnet eosims.asf.alaska.edu EDC telnet eosims.cr.usgs.gov GSFC telnet eosims.gsfc.nasa.gov JPL telnet eosims.jpl.nasa.gov LARC telnet eosims.larc.nasa.gov MSFC telnet eosims.msfc.nasa.gov NOAA/SAA telnet eosims.fb4.noaa.gov NSIDC telnet eosims.colorado.edu ORNL telnet eosims.esd.ornl.gov NASDA telnet nsaeoc.eoc.nasda.go.jp Login as "nasdadir" (IDN), "nasdasin" (Sinfonia) NOAA telnet esdim1.esdim.noaa.gov Login as noaadir URI telnet zeno.gso.uri.edu Login as "uricat" USGS telnet glis.cr.usgs.gov Login as glis
------------------------------ Subject: Weather Online
Here is a list from the WWW Virtual Library (Meteorology) at FU-Berlin. http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/DataSources/MetIndex.html. I have converted the addresses to appear also in a text-only copy, in line with the rest of this FAQ.
------------------------------ Subject: Ground Stations, with CEOS IDsGround Stations, with CEOS IDs
(1) short code and (2) synonym expansion ADL,Adelaide ALS,Alice Spring ASP,Aspendale BAA,Buenos Aires BDP,Budapest BGK,Bangkok BIO,Bedford IO BJG,Beijing BMH,Bremenhaven BRL,Berlin BRN,Berne CPA,Cashoiera Paulista CPH,Copenhagen CRO,Cairo CSY,Casey CTX,Cotopaxi DAR,Darwin DBL,De Bilt DDE,Dundee University DKA,Dhaka DSA,Dharan DVW,Downsview DXL,Da-Xing-An-Ling EMT,Edmonton EPO,Earthnet Programme Office FRA,Frascati FTZ,Fortaleza GAT,Gatineau, Canada GSF,Goddard Space Centre GZC,Guangzhou HBK,Hartebeestoek HBT,Hobart HLN,Honolulu HMB,Hamburg HSK,Helsinki HYD,Hyderabad JSA,Jeddah KGL,Keelung KIR,Kiruna KKW,Krakow KYS,Kiyose LAP,Lapan LNN,Centre Meteo Lannion LSH,Lasham LSU,Louisiana University MCR,Malaysian RS Centre MDD,Madrid MMI,Miami University MMR,MacMurdo MNL,Manila MPS,Maspalomas NDH,New Delhi NGC,Fairbanks NMY,Niamey NOA,Not Known NRB,Nairobi NRK,Norrkoping NRS,Nairobi RS Centre NWI,Wallops Island OFB,Offenbach OHG,O Higgins OPF,DLR Oberpfaffenhoffen OSL,Oslo PAS,Prince Albert PLM,Palmer Station PRG,Prague PTH,Perth RMA,Meteo Office Rome RUN,La Reunion RWC,Redwood City RYD,Riyadh SAF,Pretoria SCR,Scripps Institute SCZ,Scanzano SDN,Sidney SFL,Sioux Falls SGP,Singapore SLG,Selangor SL1,Seol KMS SL2,Seoul University SND,Sendai SPZ,Spitzbergen SSC,Stennis Space Centre STG,Santiago SYW,Syowa TK1,Tokai University 1 TK2,Tokyo University 2 TMS,Tromso TNB,Terranova Bay TNS,Tunis TOL,Aussaguel TPI,Taipei TRB,Traben-Trarbach TSV,Townsville UAL,Alaska University URI,Rhode Island University UTA,Texas University UQC,Urumqi WLT,Wellington
