Links to sites related to
Maps, Data,
Satellite Earth Photos and Images*
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/iams/html/index.html
NASA JSC's Digital Image Collection. Each Shuttle mission produces 2000 to 5000 photographic images. Over 250,000 images have been captured, digitized, and stored. Learn more about this collection and the JSC digital imaging project. NASA generally does not assert copyright, however learn more about conditions for use of images. Now full text search capabilities are implemented. A graphical browser for NASA/JSC's collection of Shuttle Earth Observation images also exists. However, the browser is not longer being maintained, so use it and its informative links for as long as it is available. For a more up-to-date site and better maps, see the Office of Earth Sciences Astronaut Photography Database. Also, the NASA Photo Gallery is an attempt to bring all of NASA's still images to one location. Check out the new Earth from Space page, containing high quality earth observation images and detailed captions!
Earth images, Radar images You can also visit Spaceborne Imaging Radar site-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) is a joint U.S.-German-Italian project that uses a highly sophisticated imaging radar to capture images of Earth that are useful to scientists across a great range of disciplines. The instrument was flown on two flights in 1994. One was on space shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-59 April 9-20, 1994. The second flight was on shuttle Endeavour on STS-68 September 30-October 11, 1994. Space radar scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and elsewhere continue to process and analyze images yielded by the shuttle flights. The images are divided into the following categories for easier viewing: Archaeology Cities; Ecology & Agriculture; Geology; Interferometry,
Oceans; Rivers; Snow, Ice, Glaciers; and Volcanoes
Earth images from Earth Satellite Corporation contains much info including geology, environment, flooding, weather, remote sensing and more. Each of the subsections (or pages) under the Geology link from the home page has links to different regions of the world.
Earth images, geoid map
Earth images, Landsat
Earth images, x-rays, earth aurora Space Physics Group, University of Berkley, California. The site contains information on earth's atmosphere and other interesting stuff.
Earth Observatory The purpose of NASA's Earth Observatory is to provide a freely-accessible publication on the Internet where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth's climate and environmental change.
Earth photos This site focuses viewable aerial photos for much of the US, Canada and Europe.
Interactive Earth online resources and hot links to visit NASA links to satellite-related earth studies and more. Check out their other pages while you are there. Send a 'global postcard' to someone from their 'Explorations' page.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Photo Archive Contains a long list of images of Earth from the Space. The site also provides many images of other planets and moons, but the images are not captioned.
Johnson Space Ctr (JSC) Digital Image Collection: Photos of the Earth Photos from Johnson Space Center�s Digital Image Collection. The �press release collection� offers photos from all of NASA�s major space missions ( and some Russian, too), including the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz projects, the space shuttle program and Russia�s Mir space station. Photos have been screened by NASA so you are seeing only the reasonably good ones and they are captioned. The �earth observation collection� contains images from recent space shuttle missions. This collection is huge, but the pictures are not edited or captioned. NASA does provide latitude and longitude of each picture, however.
Los Alamos National Laboratory The Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory is a National Research Laboratory operated by University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy.
MAPS AND MAPPING
Landform Atlas of the US in color. Takes a long time to load.
National Geographic Map Machine to view maps (physical, political and cultural) of nearly every part of the globe.
Topographic Maps, & Topographic Map Mapping Software A commercial site, but I haven't seen any other place you can get digital US topo maps. If anyone knows of a better place let me know. I am also interested in getting topo maps from other counties.
Mission to Planet Earth The official website for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise
Observatorium NASA's Observatorium is a public access site for Earth and space data. They have pictures of the Earth, planets, stars, and other cool stuff, as well as the stories behind those images
Ocean, oceanography, NASA
Radar Images from space: Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) listed above under "Spaceborne Imaging Radar site"
USGS Spectroscopy Lab Researchers at the USGS Spectroscopy Lab are studying and applying methods for identifying and mapping materials through spectroscopic remote sensing (called imaging spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging, imaging spectrometry, ultraspectral imaging, etc), on the earth and throughout the solar system using laboratory, field, airborne and spacecraft spectrometers. You can also find articles about the application of imaging spectroscopy. If interested you can check out Spectral International, a remote sensing company using field infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy and SFSI Hyperspectral Imaging technology. The web site is a comercial site, but you can see what services can be provided to industry and government within the natural resource arena. Their primary focus is directed towards mineral and petroleum resources exploration, but they also apply hyperspectral technology to environmental inventory techniques, with emphasis on mine waste detection, characterization and evaluation.
Virtual library, remote sensing
