Archive-name: sci/Satellite-Imagery-FAQ/part5

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?

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.

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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 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 IMHO hard to follow. Runs a 'topic of the
     month'.
   * The EUROGI Forum at http://www.frw.ruu.nl/eurogi/forum.html includes a BB
     facility.

UseNet

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

   * 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)

   * 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@cesnet.cz
     Send a message with the following body:
     SUBSCRIBE IMAGRS-L add_your_full_name_here

   * 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/
Global Change Database          http://wwwgateway.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

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
Environmental and Natural Resources Management
                                http://enrm.ceo.org/

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/
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/

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, Publicashers, 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
Russian GIS Association         http://www.ru/gisa

GIS World (magazine)            http://www.gisworld.com/
Earth Observation Magazine      http://www.techexpo.com/toc/eom.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/index_e.html
Global Change Research Information Office (USA)
                                http://www.gcrio.org/

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/
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/

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

   * 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

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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
