Subject: Satellite Imagery FAQ - 5/5
Supersedes: <sci/Satellite-Imagery-FAQ/part5_827207059@rtfm.mit.edu>
Date: 19 Apr 1996 05:19:01 GMT
References: <sci/Satellite-Imagery-FAQ/part1_829890621@rtfm.mit.edu>
Summary: Satellite Imagery for Earth Observation
X-Last-Updated: 1996/04/17


This document is part of the Satellite Imagery FAQ

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Subject: Further Reading

Further Reading

Is there a good general introduction to Remote Sensing on the Net?

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.

OTOH, the excellent introduction previewed last year and anticipated in this
FAQ has yet to be made public.

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Subject: I have a question that isn't covered in the FAQ

I have a question that isn't covered in the FAQ

  1. Look in the CEOS IDN. This is the authoritative worldwide information
     system that answers every possible question about Satellite Earth
     Observation. The IDN has three coordinating nodes, each carrying the
     complete directory:
     America
          The Global Change Master Directory is accessible by WWW at
          http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/ or by telnet to gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov (login
          as "gcdir").
     Europe
          The IDN is available via Hyper-G or WWW via Esrin's GDS at
          http://gds.esrin.esa.it/CCEOS-IDN or by telnet to epocat.esrin.esa.it
          (login as "esapid").
     Asia
          The IDN is available from NASDA at
          http://www.eoc.nasda.go.jp/guide/eus/index.html, or by telnet to
          nsaeoc.eoc.nasda.go.jp
  2. Look in Esrin's GDS (URL below). Supports browsing, or keyword search
     types of access.
  3. Look in USGS's www-glis (URL below). A major source of detailed
     information.

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Subject: Related FAQs

Related FAQs

http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/v_earth.html
     The Virtual Earth: Using the Web for Geoscience Resources FAQ
ftp://kestrel.umd.edu/pub/wxsat/docs/FAQ
     WXSAT FAQ
http://www.census.gov/geo/gis/faq-index.html
     The comp.infosystems.gis FAQ
ftp://eos.nasa.gov/EosDis/sci.geo.eos
     Archive and FAQ for sci.geo.eos
gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/00/inetdirsstacks/earthsci%3athoen
     Bill Thoen's Earth Science Resources FAQ
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/weather/top.html
     Ilana Stern's Meteorology FAQ
ftp://charon.er.usgs.gov/pub/PD.projections.FAQ
     Public Domain Cartographic Software FAQ
http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/traffic/scidataformats/faq.html
     sci.data.formats FAQ
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/ded.html
     Bruce Gittings' Digital Elevation Data Catalogue
Terrill Ray's Remote Sensing for Vegetation FAQ:
     Should be ftp://kepler.gps.caltech.edu/pub/terrill/rsvegfaq.txt
     Some people have had trouble contacting this site. The FAQ is also
     available locally on at least some SATFAQ sites

Note that FAQs within the news.answers system are automatically archived at
lots of sites. The "primary" site is ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/ where FAQs are kept in
plain ASCII format. Some other places to look for hypertext versions include:

   * Europe: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/cgi-bin/faqwais
   * America: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/.

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Subject: Relevant Discussions on the Internet

Relevant Discussions on the Internet

The World-Wide Web (WWW)

   * The Remote Sensing Web^ing at http://clever.net/webthing/RS includes
     advanced indexing and search functions, and is becoming the primary home
     for this FAQ.
   * The AAG Speciality Group on GIS HyperNews Forum at
     http://thoth.sbs.ohio-state.edu/HyperNews/get/aaggis.html is a
     GIS-oriented forum, also using advanced threaded software.
   * JPL run a very successful Imaging Radar Bulletin Board at
     http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov
   * GGRWEB run a forum at http://www.ggrweb.com/webbbs.html. No structuring
     (let alone threading) make it hard to follow. Runs a 'topic of the month'.
     Generates traffic by saturation-advertising.
   * The EUROGI Forum at http://www.frw.ruu.nl/eurogi/forum.html includes a BB
     facility, although it is little used.

     UseNet

        o bit.listserv.uigis-l
          User Interfaces for Geographic Information Systems Discussion List
        o bit.listserv.wx-talk
          General weather discussions and talk
        o comp.ai.vision
          Artificial Intelligence Vision Research. (Moderated)
        o comp.graphics
          Computer graphics, art, animation, image processing
        o comp.graphics.algorithms
          Algorithms used in producing computer graphics.
        o comp.graphics.raytracing
          Ray tracing software, tools and methods.
        o comp.graphics.visualization
          Info on scientific visualization.
        o comp.infosystems.gis
          All aspects of Geographic Information Systems.
        o comp.soft-sys.khoros
          The Khoros X11 visualization system.
        o info.grass.programmer
          GRASS geographic information system programmer issues
          (grassp-list @moon.cecer.army.mil) (Moderated)
        o info.grass.user
          GRASS geographic information system user issues
          (grassu-list@moon.cecer.army.mil) (Moderated)
        o news.answers
          Repository for periodic USENET articles. (Moderated)
        o sci.data.formats
        o sci.environment
          Discussions about the environment and ecology. Not for the
          fainthearted!
        o sci.fractals
          Objects of non-integral dimension and other chaos.
        o sci.geo.earthquakes
        o sci.geo.eos
          NASA's Earth Observation System (EOS).
        o sci.geo.fluids
          Discussion of geophysical fluid dynamics.
        o sci.geo.geology
          Discussion of solid earth sciences.
        o sci.geo.hydrology
          Surface and groundwater hydrology.
        o sci.geo.meteorology
          Discussion of meteorology and related topics.
        o sci.geo.oceanography
          Oceanography
        o sci.geo.petroleum
          Topics related to the exploration of natural resources
        o sci.geo.rivers+lakes
          Inland Waters
        o sci.geo.satellite-nav
          Satellite navigation systems, especially GPS.
        o sci.image.processing
          Scientific image processing and analysis.
        o sci.space.news
          Announcements of space-related news items. (Moderated)
        o sci.answers
          Repository for periodic USENET articles. (Moderated)
        o alt.sys.intergraph
          Support for Intergraph machines.

     LISTSERV and discussion lists via e-mail only

     A word on Listservs:

     A Listserv is a mailing list. When you are subscribed, you receive all
     messages posted to the list, until and unless you unsubscribe. Likewise,
     when you post a message to the list, it is recieved by all list
     subscribers.

     To (un)subscribe to a list, send an email to the address given, with the
     single line:

     (un)subscribe listname your-full-name

     where 'listname' is the part of the posting address to the left of the
     "@".

     Please do NOT post subscribe/unsubscribe requests to the lists. It won't
     have the desired effect, but it will irritate list members.

     Messages should be on subjects appropriate to the list. Inappropriate
     messages, and particularly advertisements, will generate nothing but
     ill-will. On the other hand, don't be shy to ask something just because
     "this may be a stupid question...". The largest volome of stupid messages
     typically comprises attempts to subscribe or unsubscribe.

     A common source of minor annoyance on Lists arises when a perfectly good
     but perhaps rather narrow/technical question has been asked, and answers
     are posted. The answer may be exactly what the questioner wanted, but of
     little or no general interest to other readers. Many such answers are
     unintentionally posted, because that's what happens when you simply
     "reply" to a message (unless the author of the original message has
     explicitly set a Reply-to: line in the header).

             Address to SUBSCRIBE            Address to POST TO THE LIST
                        =========                       ================
             wxsat-request@ssg.com           WXSAT-L@ssg.com
             listserv@listserv.cesnet.cz     IMAGRS-L@cesnet.cz
                     (archive site: gopher://gopher.gis.umn.edu/11/rsgis/lists/imagrs-l
             listserv@orstom.fr              AFRICAGIS@rio.org
             listserv@tome.worldbank.org     AFRICA-EIS@tome.worldbank.org
             met-ai-request@comp.vuw.ac.nz   met-ai@@comp.vuw.ac.nz
             listproc@eskimo.com             geosci-jobs@eskimo.com
             listproc@eskimo.com             met-jobs@eskimo.com

        o WXSAT-L
          This list serves two functions. The primary function is the
          distribution of NOAA status and prediction bulletins for the GOES and
          polar weather satellites. This data is the same data available via
          SCIENCEnet NOAA.SAT bulletin board area. The mail list also acts as a
          reflector for subscribers' comments and discussion of matters related
          to weather satellites, ground stations, and associated topics.
          Contact: wxsat-request@ssg.com (Richard B. Emerson)

        o IMAGRS-L
          Digital Image Processing of Remotely Sensed Data

          The area of digital image processing of remotelly sensed data should
          be the main topic of this club - so exactly the problems of the
          interest are the methods of digital image processing for remotelly
          sensed data (like LANDSAT or SPOT) as well as microwave and also new
          types of data for remote sensing the Earth or other objects. Also
          computer problems with these very time demanding methods can
          interesting including visualization, paralel computing etc.

          Subscriptions should go to listserv@CSEARN.BITNET (or
          listserv@EARN.CVUT.CZ)
          Send a message with the following body:
          SUBSCRIBE IMAGRS-L add_your_full_name_here

        o AFRICA-EIS rg
          Another African GIS discussion group.
          Contributions should go to: africa-eis@tome.worldbank.org
          Subscriptions and commands: listserv@tome.worldbank.org
          The first line of the message should read:
          SUBSCRIBE AFRICA-EIS add_your_full_name_here
          Contact: Koffi Kouakou at kkouakou@worldbank.org

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     Subject: Terminology and Acronyms

     Terminology and Acronyms

     I used to have a list of acronyms here, and the intention of merging with
     other lists when I could find the time. Then I realised that it's been
     done by others - better than I'm ever likely to! So here instead is where
     you get CCRS's extensive glossary:
     http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/common/comndexe.html.

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     Subject: Web pages

     Web pages

     Some of the front pages and other main pages from the people who run space
     programmes, and a few other sites with interesting material on the Web.
     But first, the major subject catalogues...

     Internet Guides

     (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/ava/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

     National, Government and International Organisations

     (please feel free to comment if you disagree with my categorisations)>

     Agence Francaise de l'Espace

     Centre National Etudes Spatiales

     CNES Homepage (french only)     http://www.cnes.fr/
     Earth Observation (incl SPOT)   http://www.cnes.fr/scripts/observat.html

     Agenzia Spaziale Italiana

     Homepage                        http://hp835.mt.asi.it/

     Canada Centre for Remote Sensing

     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

     Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (USA)

     CIESIN Front Page               http://infoserver.ciesin.org/

     DLR/Deutsche Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum

     English Front Page              http://pid.da.op.dlr.de/welcome.html
     ISIS                            http://pid.da.op.dlr.de/ISIS/Intro.html

     European Space Agency

     *** Warning to Netscape users: many of these <blink> ***
     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/

     European Union

     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

     Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazil)

     Front Page                      http://www.inpe.br/

     National Aeronautics & Space Administration (USA)

     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/

     NASA Earth Observing System (USA)

     EOS Front Page                  http://eos.nasa.gov/
     EOSDIS                          http://spso2.gsfc.nasa.gov/spso_homepage.html
     EOSDIS Core System (ECS)        http://ecsinfo.hitc.com/
     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://eosims.asf.alaska.edu:12355/asf_homepage.html
     CIESIN SEDAC (social aspects)   http://www.ciesin.org/SEDAC/SEDAC-home.html
     EDC DAAC (Land)                 http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/landdaac.html
     JPL DAAC (Oceanography)         http://seazar.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.grdl.noaa.gov/
     NSIDC DAAC (snow & ice)         http://eosims.colorado.edu:1773/
     ORNL DAAC (biogeochemical)      http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov/
     GSFC DAAC (atmosphere/biosphere) http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/

     National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA)

     NCAR Front Page                 http://www.ucar.edu/
     NCAR Data Archive               http://www.ucar.edu/dss/index.html

     National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA)

     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/

     National Space Development Agency (Japan)

     NASDA Front Page                http://hdsn.eoc.nasda.go.jp/
     EUS/Guide (SYNFONIA-II)         http://www.eoc.nasda.go.jp/guide/eus/index.html

     Swedish Space Corporation

     SSC Front Page                  http://www.ssc.se/

     United States Geological Survey

     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

     Professional Societies, etc

     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

     A few Companies, Universities and other sites

     Academic & similar

     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/sat/index_e.html

     Commercial sites (many have very substantial free content):

     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/ava/rs/
     GIS World (magazine)            http://www.gisworld.com/
     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

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     Subject: Catalogues/Inventories

     Catalogues/Inventories

     Perhaps this list should be merged with the URLS?

     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.

     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

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     Subject: Weather Online

     Weather Online

     (see also Weather FAQ).

     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.
        o ftp://plaza.aarnet.edu.au/Weather/gms GMS, from AARNet Archive Server
        o gopher://gopher.ncc.go.jp/11/INFO/weather/gms GMS , from National
          Cancer Center (Tokyo)

        o gopher://gopher.ssec.wisc.edu/11/gsdc.d GOES , from University of
          Wisconsin-Madison
        o ftp://westsat.com/pub/images GOES , from westsat.com

        o ftp://cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk/images/jpeg/atlantic.ir.jpg US Satellite
          IR , from University of Edinburgh
        o ftp://cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk/images/jpeg/atlantic.vis.jpg US Satellite
          VIS , from University of Edinburgh

        o gopher://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/11/weather/met.ed.ac.uk/images Meteosat ,
          from University of Edinburgh
        o gopher://gopher.rrz.uni-koeln.de/11/themen/Wetter Meteosat , from
          Universitdt Kvln
        o ftp://ccn7.nott.ac.uk/user/user/pub/satpix Meteosat , from Nottingham
          University

        o http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/ NOAA-11/12 (Europe), from University of
          Dundee
        o http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/english/Wetter/index.html NOAA (Europe),
          Institut f|r Meteorologie FU-Berlin
        o http://www.dkrz.de/sat/noaa.html NOAA (Europe) , Deutsches
          Klimarechenzentrum
        o http://www.inpe.br/grid/meteosat Meteosat 3 (South America), from
          Brasilian Space Agancy (INPE)
        o http://www.crs4.it/~luigi/METEO/meteo.html Meteosat, from CSP, Italy
        o ftp://rainbow.physics.utoronto.ca/pub/sat_images/ NOAA-11/12 (North
          America) , from rainbow.physics.utoronto.ca
        o gopher://gopher.ncc.go.jp/11/INFO/weather/noaa/ NOAA (Asia), from
          National Cancer Center (Tokyo)
        o ftp://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/data/noaa/ NOAA (Asia), from University
          of Tokyo

        o http://shark1.esrin.esa.it/ Ionia Global Land 1km AVHRR data Set
          Browser, from European Space Agency - ESA/ESRIN
     'Meteor' imagery is missing from the above list. Thanks to John Boyer for
     noticing, and supplying his URL
     http://www.bbc.co.uk/john_wxpics/index.html (which also carries NOAA
     imagery).
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     Subject: Ground Stations, with CEOS IDs

     Ground 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

     ------------------------------

     Subject: List of Addresses of some RS data suppliers

     List of Addresses of Institutes/Organizations/Companies/Persons that
     supply data related to Remote Sensing

     Taken from Wim's report on CDROM's - online at www.itc.nl. It's not
     comprehensive but it's the best single list I'm aware of!

     Sorry, not alphabetic. But important enough to list here

     Dr. Phil Jones
          Climatic Research Unit
          University of East Anglia
          Norwich NR4 7TJ
          United Kingdom

     Cliff Mass
          Dept. of Atmos. Sci. (AK40)
          University of Washington
          Seattle, WA 98195
          USA
          206/685-0910

     J. Le Ber
          Meteosat Data Service - ESOC
          European Space Agency
          Robert Bosch Strasse 5
          D6100 DARMSTADT
          GERMANY
          +49 6151900, +49 6151 902534,
          FAX +49 6151 90495

     ZedX, Inc.
          P.O. Box 404
          Boalsburg PA
          Pennsylvania 16827-0404
          USA
          814/466-2025
          FAX (814) 466-6691

     National Oceanographic Data Center
          NOAA/NESDIS E/OC21
          Washington, DC 20235
          USA
          202/673-5549

     C. Kreitzberg
          Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric
          Science
          Drexel University
          Philadelphia PA, Pennsylvania 19104
          USA

     World Data Center A, for Glaciology
     [Snow and Ice]
          National Snow and Ice Data Center
          University of Colorado
          CIRES - Campus Box 449
          Boulder, CO80309
          USA
          303/492-5171, FAX 303/492-2468

     National Operational Hydrologic Remote
     Sensing Center (NOHRSC)
          Office of Hydrology (WOH23)
          National Weather Service, NOAA
          6301 34th Avenue South: Room 112
          Minneapolis MN,
          Minnesota 55450-2985
          USA
          612/725-3258, FAX 612/725-3338

     Steve Williams
          e-mail: sfw@ncar.ucar.edu

     NSSDC (NASA Space Science Data Center)
          Mail Code 633.4
          NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
          (GSFC)
          Greenbelt MD, Maryland 20771
          USA
          301/286-6695
          FAX (301) 286-4952

     CD-ROM, Inc
          1667 Cole Blvd. Suite 400
          Golden CO, Colorado 80401
          USA
          303/526-7600, FAX 303/231-9581

     Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
     (CDIAC)
          Oak Ridge National Laboratory
          P. O. Box 2008
          Oak Ridge TN, Tennessee 37831-6335
          USA
          615/574-0390, FAX 615/574-2232

     Langley Distributed Active Archive Center
     (DAAC)
          NASA Langley Research Center
          Mail Stop 157B
          Hampton VA, Virginia23681-0001
          USA
          804/864-8656, FAX 804/864-8807

     NASA Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)
          Central Data Services Facility
          Code 933.4
          NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
          (GSFC)
          Greenbelt MD, Maryland 20771
          USA
          301/286-6695
          Fax (301) 286-4952

     National Center for Atmospheric Research
     (NCAR)
          (Ilana Stern)
          NCAR Data Support Section
          PO Box 3000
          Boulder CO, Colorado 80307
          USA
          303/497-1219, FAX 303/497-1137

     National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
          Federal Building
          37 Battery Park Avenue
          Asheville NC,
          North Carolina 28801-2733
          USA
          704/259-0682

     National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
          NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC, Mail Code
          E/GC4, Dept. ORD (891?)
          325 Broadway
          Boulder CO, Colorado 80303-3328
          USA
          303/497-6958
          Digital data, general (303) 497-6419
          Solid Earth Geophysics (303)
          497-6521
          Marine Geology/geophysics (303)
          497-6487
          Solar-terrestrial physics (303)
          497-6323
          Glaciology (303) 497-5311

     United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)/
          Global Resource Information Database
          (GRID)
          Facility Manager,
          UNEP/GRID-Geneva
          6 rue de la Gabelle
          CH-1227 Carouge
          Geneva SWITZERLAND
          (0041-22) 343-8660
          FAX (0041-22) 343-8862

     U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
          ESIC-Open File Section
          Box 25286
          Federal Center
          Mail Stop 517
          Denver CO, Colorado 80225
          USA
          Tel. (303) 236-7476

     US (Department of the Interior,) Geological
     Survey (USGS)
          James R. Slack
          National Water Data Exchange
          (NAWDEX)
          MS 421 - National Center
          Reston VA, Virginia 22092
          USA

     National Cartographic Information Center
     (NCIC)
          U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
          507 National Center
          Reston, Virginia 22092
          (703) 860-6045

     Chadwyck-Healey Ltd.
          Cambridge Place
          Cambridge CB2 INR
          UNITED KINGDOM
          Tel. (0223) 311479
          Fax. (0223) 66440

     Chadwyck-Healey Inc.
          1101 King St
          Alexandria VA, Virginia 22314
          USA
          800/752-0515

     Mr. Randal Davis
          LASP, Campus Box 392
          University of Colorado
          Boulder, CO 80309
          USA
          (303) 492-6867
          FAX (303) 492-5105

     Geological Survey of Japan
          1-1-3 Higashi,
          Tsukuba-shi,
          Ibaraki-ken,
          305 Japan

     Joint Education Initiative (JEdI)
          Office of Technology Liaison
          University of Maryland
          4312 Knox Road
          College Park, MD 20742
          USA
          (310) 405-4210
     Contacts: CD-ROM, Inc. and
               Bureau of Electronic
               Publishing

     Bureau of Electronic Publishing
          141 New Road
          Parsippamy NJ, New Jersey 07054
          USA
          (201) 808-2700, FAX (201) 808-2676

     Government Raster Image Processing
     Software (GRIPS-2)
          Meridian Data Corporation
          5615 Scotts Valley Drive
          Scotts Valley CA, California 95066
          USA
          (408) 438-3100
     Contacts: CD-ROM, Inc. and
               Bureau of Electronic
               Publishing

     SPOT Image Corporation
          SPOT IMAGE
          Customer Department
          16 bis, avenue Edouard Belin - BP
          4359
          31030 TOULOUSE Cedex
          France
          tel. +33 61539976
          FAX +33 61281354 or +33 61274605

     SPOT Image Corporation
          1897 Preston White Drive
          Reston, Virginia 22091
          USA
          (703) 620-2200

     CNES Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales
          REICH, ROGER
          18 Avenue E. BELIN
          31055 TOULOUSE CEDEX
          FRANCE
          (33) 61.28.17.04
          FAX (33) 61.28.16.40

     EOSAT, Earth Observation Satellite Company
          4300 Forbes Blvd.
          Lanham MD, Maryland 20706-9954
          USA
          1-800-344-9933 or (301) 552-0500
          FAX for foreign customers
               (605) 594-2291

     National Cartographic Information Center
     (NCIC)
          U.S. Geological Survey
          507 National Center
          Reston VA, Virginia 22092
          USA
          (703) 860-6045

     National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
          Claire Hanson
          CIRES, Campus Box 449
          University of Colorado
          Boulder, Colorado 80309
          USA
          (303) 492-1834
          FAX (303) 492-2468
     Contact: World Data Center A for Glaciology

     JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
          California Institute of Technology
          4800 Oak Grove Drive
          Pasadena, CA 91109
          USA
          (818)-354-5011

     National Environmental Satellite Data and
     Information Service (NESDIC) National Climatic
     Center (NCC)
     Satellite Data Service Division (SDSD)
          NOAA/NESDIC/NCDC
          Princeton Executive Square, Suite 100
          Washington, DC 20233
          USA
          (301) 763-8400, (301) 763-8111

     NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC/SDSD Satellite Data
     Services Division, NOAA
          5627 Allantown Road
          Camp Springs MD, Maryland 20746
          USA

     National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
          User Services Branch
          NOAA/NESDIC E/OC21
          1825 Connecticut Avenue, NW
          Washington, DC 20235
          USA
          (202) 606-4549
          FAX (202) 606-4586

     RADARSAT INTERNATIONAL INC.
          ORDER DESK
          Building D, Suite 200,
          3851 Shell Road,
          Richmond, B.C.
          CANADA V6X 2W2
          604-244-0400
          FAX 604-244-0404

     RADARSAT International
          275 Slater Street
          Ottawa, Ontario
          Canada K1P-5H9
          (613) 238-5424
          FAX (613) 238-5425

     EROS Data Center
          Mundt Federal Building
          Sioux Falls SD, South Dakota 57198
          USA
          (605) 594-6151
          FAX (605) 594-6589

     The Eurimage Operations Office
          ESA-ESRIN
          c/o Earthnet
          C.P. 64, Via G.Galilei
          00044 Frascati
          Italy
          (39) 6-94180218/9
          FAX (39) 6-9426285

     Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS)
     588 Booth Street
     Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0Y7
     Canada

     Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS)
          Prince Albert Receiving Station
          Prince Albert, Saskatchewan S6V 5S7
          (306) 764-3602

     Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
     (CCRS, NRCan)
          SATELLITE OPERATIONS CENTRE,
          ORDER DESK
          588 Booth Street
          Ottawa, Ontario
          CANADA K1A 0Y7
          (613)990-8033
          FAX (613)991-5538

     Products and Services Division
          Surveys, Mapping, and Remote
          Sensing Sector (SMRSS/EMR)
          Energy, Mines and Resources Canada
          615 Booth Street, Room 400
          Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1A 0E4
          Tel. (613) 995-2123
          Fax. (613) 995-6001

     User Summary Tapes
          Electronic Data Dissemination Division
          Statistics Canada
          9th Floor, R.H. Coates Building
          Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T6
          (613) 951-8200

     The Manager
          AUSMAP Data Unit
          P.O. Box 2
          BELCONNEN ACT 2617
          AUSTRALIA

     Earth Observation Data Centre (EODC)
     Royal Aerospace Establishment (RAE)
          VECK, NICK J.
          National Remote Sensing Centre
          Limited (NRSC)
          North Gate Road
          Farnborough
          Hampshire GU14 6TW
          UK
          Phone: 0252 541464

     National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC)
          Space Department
          Royal Aircraft Establishment
          Farnborough
          Hants GU14 6TD
          United Kingdom
          tel. (0252) 541464

     NLR National Lucht- en
     Ruimtevaartlaboratorium NLR
          National Point of Contact (NPOC)
          postbus 153
          8300 AD Emmeloord
          the Netherlands
          05274-8255
          FAX 05274-8210

     INPE Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
          SILVA, VERA LUCIA AZEVEDO
          INPE - DGI
          Rod. Dutra, Km 40
          12630-000 Cachoeira Paulista, SP
          Brazil
          +55.125.61-1507
          FAX +55.125.61-2088

     RESTEC Remote Sensing Technology Center
     of Japan
          Data Service Department
          Remote Sensing Technology Center of
          Japan
          Uni-Roppongi Bldg. 7-15-17, Roppongi
          Minato-ku, Tokyo 106
          Japan
          Phone: 81-3-3403-1761

     RU Rutgers University
          MADRY, SCOTT
          Cook College Remote Sensing Center
          Global Dataset Project
          Box 231, College Farm Road
          Rutgers University
          New Brunswick, NJ 09803-0231 USA
          (908) 932-9631
          FAX (908) 932-8644

     SSC Stennis Space Center, NASA
          WALTERS, DAVID
          Stennis Space Center
          Earth Resources Lab
          SSC MS, Mississippi 39529
          USA
          1-601-688-1763

     SSC SATELLITBILD Swedish Space
     Corporation Satellitbild
          CUSTOMERS SERVICES,
          SSC Satellitbild
          P.O. Box 816
          S-981 28 KIRUNA, Sweden
          Office, Rymdhuset
          +46 980 12140
          FAX +46 980 16044

     Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing
     Centre (NERSC)
          NILSEN, AAGE
          Edv. Griegsvei 3a
          5037 Solheimsvik, Bergen
          Norway
          +47 5 200050, +47 5 297288

     Atmospheric Environment Service (AES)
          SKINNER, WALTER
          Environment Canada
          4905 Dufferin Street
          Downsview, Ontario
          Canada M3H 5T4
          (416)739-4327
          FAX (416)739-4297

     Atlantic Geoscience Centre/RR (AGC)
          MCNAB, RON F.
          Geological Survey of Canada, Energy,
          Mines and Resources
          P.O. Box 1006
          Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
          Canada B2Y 4A2
          (902)426-5687
          FAX (902)426-4266

     GDC Geophysical Data Centre, Geological
     Survey of Canada
          TOD, JOAN
          Geophysical Data Centre, Geophysics
          Division
          Geological Survey of Canada, Energy,
          Mines & Resources
          1 Observatory Crescent, Building 5
          Ottawa, Ontario
          CANADA K1A 0Y3
          (613)992-6438
          FAX (613)992-2787

     AODC Australian Oceanographic Data Centre
          SEARLE, BEN
          Hydrographic Office, RAN
          P.O. Box 1332
          North Sydney, NSW 2059
          Australia
          (02) 925. 4230

     CNODC China National Oceanographic Data
     Center
          CNODC, DATA MANAGEMENT
          DIVISION
          State Oceanographic Administration
          77 Qiwei Road
          Hedong District
          Tianjin, China
          244161, Tianjin, China
          FAX 314408, Tianjin, China

     GDCEDC GALE, ERICA Data Center,
     Drexel University
          BROWNE, CHUCK
          GALE/ERICA Data Center
          Department of Physics and
          Atmospheric Science
          Drexel University
          Philadelphia, PA 19104
          USA
          (215) 895-2786

     INODC Indian National Oceanographic Data
     Centre
          REMOTE SENSING SECTION, NIO
          National Institute of Oceanography
          Dona Paula, Goa 403 004
          India
          6253-56

     KUDA Kuwait Data Archive (KUDA)
          HAGGERTY, JULIE
          Kuwait Data Archive
          National Center for Atmospheric
          Research
          ATD/RAF
          P.O. Box 3000
          Boulder, CO 80307
          303-497-1029, 303-497-1058
          FAX 303-497-1092

     CDDIS Crustal Dynamics Data Information
     System
          NOLL, CAREY E.
          Bldg. 28 - Rm. W186D
          Code 935
          NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
          (GSFC)
          Greenbelt, Md. 20771
          USA
          (301) - 286-9283

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     Subject: List of Institutes/Organizations and the Data they supply

     List of Institutes/Organizations and the Data they supply

     Taken from Wim's report on CDROM's - online at www.itc.nl. It's not
     comprehensive but it's the best single list I'm aware of!

     Not alphabetic, but important enough to list here

     Dr. Phil Jones, Climatic Research Unit
          Climate Change Data ($950!)

     Cliff Mass, Dept. of Atmos. Sci.
          World Weather Disc ($295)

     J. Le Ber, Meteosat Data Service, European Space Agency
          Meteosat Images on CD-ROM, 1986 to 1991 (price unknown)

     ZedX, Inc.
          High Resolution Climatology ($199/variable) (Floppy disc)

     National Oceanographic Data Center
          Global Ocean Temperature and Salinity (2 discs, $80 each or $124/both)

     C. Kreitzberg, Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric Science
          GALE and ERICA datasets (2 discs, price not known)

     World Data Center A for Glaciology [Snow and Ice]
          DMSP SSM/I Brightness Temperature Grids for the Polar Regions
          DMSP SSM/I Ice Concentration Grids for the Polar Regions
          Nimbus-7 SMMR Polar Radiances
          Eastern Arctic Ice

     National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC)
          CD-ROM Snow Cover Data
          NWS/NOHRSC US and southern Canada Snow cover data ($200 each year)

     Steve Williams, sfw@ncar.ucar.edu
          STORM-FEST data (3 discs, price unknown)

     NSSDC (NASA Space Science Data Center)
          voyager + viking + magellan images. (cheap!)
          CATALOG from request@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov
          GEDEX (Greenhouse Effect Detection Experiment)(price not known)

     CD-ROM, Inc
          hundreds of discs of earth, space and sea science data intended for school use
          CATALOG free

     Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)
          trace gas emissions (magnetic tape)
          atmospheric data
          carbon-dioxide data
          climate data
          greenhouse-gas data
          CATALOG via ftp cdiac.esd.ornl.gov

     Langley Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)
          atmospheric chemistry data (tape + CD-ROM)

     NASA Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)
          Astronomical and atmospheric data
          TOMS (Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer) Nimbus-7
          CD-ROMs with TOMS data
          --   Gridded ozone data for 1978-1988 (one CD-ROM)
          --   TOMS ozone images for 1978-1991 (one CD-ROM)
          --   A copy of these CD-ROMs is at NCAR; NASA is the source
          Planatary data (typically $20 + $6 for each additional CD)

     National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
          400 datasets available (on various media)
          CATALOG ncardata.ucar.edu:catalogs/nondss/gedex
          NMC gridpoint dataset ($150)
          E-MAIL datahelp@ncar.ucar.edu

     National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
          National Climate Info System ($50)

     National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
          Various discs available
          DEMs, small scale coverage for US, geophysics

     United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)/
         Global Resource Information Database (GRID)

     USGS Open File Section
          Digital Chart of the World (DCW)
     US (Department of the Interior,) Geological Survey (USGS)
          USA 1:2000000 topological map
          Digital Chart of the World
          DEMs
          High resolution bathymetry and selected geoscience data
          for the Monterey Bay region.

          Hydro-Climatic Data Network (HCDN)
          Surface water conditions in US
          Hydro-Climatic Data Network Information Disk
          CATALOG in ftp srv1rvares.er.usgs.gov:/hcdn92

     Chadwyck-Healey Ltd, UK
          Digital Chart of the World

     Randal Davis, University of Colorado LASP
          25,000 raw Voyager photos in 800x800 256-color format
          (12 disks!)

     Geological Survey of Japan
          Geological Map of Japan 1:1.000.000

     Joint Education Initiative (JEdI)
          Antarctica AVHRR

     Bureau of Electronic Publishing

     Government Raster Image Processing Software (GRIPS-2)
          Alaska AVHRR

     SPOT Image Corporation
          EDUSPOT, containing 40 SPOT scenes for educational purposes
          4 CD-ROMs, covering parts of Europe, price 18750 FF (!!)

     EOSAT

     National Cartographic Information Center (NCIC)
          DEMs

     National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
          SMM/I Special Sensor Microwave/Imager

     JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
          AVIRIS (Airborne Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer)

     Satellite Data Service Division (SDSD)
          NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
          AVHRR
          GOES
          SMM/I Special Sensor Microwave/Imager

     National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)

     RADARSAT International
          ERS1-SAR
          MSS

     EROS Data Center
          Conterminous US, composed mosaics of AVHRR
          MSS

     ERS
          ERS1-SAR

     Surveys, Mapping, and Remote Sensing Sector Energy, Mines and Resources Canada
          Digital Chart of the World
