On-line References and Tutorials
NASASatellite Sensors
NOAA
Other U.S. Govt. Agencies
U.S. Universities
International Agencies
Current SensorsSatellite PlatformsVisible/InfraredFuture Sensors
Passive Microwave
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Selected Past Sensors
Ocean ColorOther Links
Sea Surface Temperature
Altimetry (Sea Surface Height)
Ocean Winds
Sea Ice
Other
On-line References and Tutorials
NASA Remote Sensing Tutorial
Canadian
Center for Remote Sensing Tutorial - RS Fundamentals
Canadian
Center for Remote Sensing Tutorial - Radar RS
NSF Digital Library for Earth System Education
(search on specific topic)
Color Science
(info on color, blackbody radiation)
The
Electromagnetic Spectrum (NASA info page)
NASA J-Track Satellite
Tracker (tracks position of many satellites)
JPL List of Past, Present, and
Future NASA Missions
Remote Sensing News and News-Worthy Imagery
NASA Earth Observatory
(Image of the Day, News, Image Archives, etc.)
NASA Images and Animations
NASA Destination: Earth (Image
of the Day, etc.)
NOAA News
NOAA Image of the Day
Alliance for Marine Remote
Sensing News (online summaries and links, password from Prof. Meier)
Spaceflight Now, (WTC images )
Space Imaging Corp.
Visible Earth (many browse images)
"Earth as Art" from
Landsat imagery
Earth Observing System Home Page
Goddard Space Flight Center
Earth
Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)
Physical Oceanography Distributed
Active Archive Center (PODAAC)
Visible Earth
A Global
View From Space
JPL Polar Oceanography Group
JPL Topex El Nino/La Nina
Watch
JPL List of Past, Present, and
Future NASA Missions
Goddard
Ocean Color DAAC
AVHRR PODAAC Sea Surface Temperature
Archive
JPL Topex and Jason-1 Altimetry
Home Page
Topex PODAAC Altimetry
Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder
NOAA Home Page
Satellites Page
Nat'l Environmental Satellite, Data,
and Information Service (NESDIS)
Archived
Imagery from Significant Historical Events
NOAA Image of the Day
NOAA National Operational Hydrologic
Remote Sensing Center
National Geophysical Data Center
(NGDC)
National Climatic Data Center
(NCDC)
NESDIS Advanced
Satellite Products Team (ASPT)
Office of Satellite Operations
Satellite Active Archive
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
(PMEL)
Environmental Technology
Laboratory (ETL) Satellite Remote Sensing Group
Other U.S. Government Agencies
U.S. Naval/National Ice Center
(NIC)
National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
DoD Space
and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWARS)
Johns Hopkins University Ocean Remote
Sensing Group
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics
Research (Univ. of Colorado) (CCAR)
Univ. of Wisconsin Space Science and
Engineering Center (SSEC)
Univ. of Wisconsin Cooperative Institute
for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)
Univ. of
Maryland Remote Sensing and Remote Inference Group
Brigham Young University
Microwave Earth Remote Sensing (MERS) Center
Colorado State University Cooperative
Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
Canadian Center
for Remote Sensing (CCRS)
Canadian Space Agency
(CSA)
European Space Agency (ESA)
European Org. for the Exploitation of
Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
National Space Development
Agency of Japan (NASDA)
Danish Center for Remote
Sensing
Nansen Environmental and Remote
Sensing Center (Norway)
Visible/Infrared - Geophysical
NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental
Satellite (GOES) Program sensors
NOAA Polar Operational Environmental
Satellite (POES) Program sensors
SeaWiFS, 1997 -
AVHRR (Advanced
Very High Resolution Radiometer), 1978 -
MODIS (Moderate-resolution Imaging
Spectrometer) on Aqua and Terra, 1999 -
OLS (Operational
Linescan System), 1987 -
TRMM (Tropical Rainforest Measuring
Mission) Sensors, includes real-time data products, 1997 -
TOVS
(TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder), 1978-
TOMS (Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer),
1978 -
Visible/Infrared- High Resolution/Surveillance
Landsat Thematic
Mapper (TM), early 1980s -
SPOT (Satellite Pour l'Observation de
la Terre), also image gallery here
, satellite and sensor info here, (first
launched 1986; now Spot 5, May 4, 2002 - )
IKONOS from
Space Imaging Corp., hi-res. commercial
sensor, Sept. 24, 1999 -
SSM/I
(Special Sensor Microwave/Imager), 1987 -
AMSR (Advanced
Microwave Scanning Radiometer) on Terra, 1999 -
AMSR-E (AMSR for EOS)
on ADEOS-II, 2002 -
AMSU
(-A and -B) (Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit), also the CSU CIRA site and the Univ. of Wisc. SSEC site, 1998 - (starting
with NOAA-15)
Altimeters:
Topex/Poseidon,
1992 -
Jason-1,
Dec. 7, 2001 -
Geosat Follow On (GFO),
U.S. Navy altimeter, February 1998 -
Scatterometers:
SeaWinds, (on QuikScat, 1999 -
present; on ADEOS-2, launched Dec. 13, 2002)
Envisat Scatterometer, March 2002
-
Synthetic Aperture Radars:
Radarsat-1,
1995 - 2002? (out of service at end of 2002, may come back)
ERS-2 (European Remote Sensing Satellite
2) SAR, 1995 -
Envisat ASAR, March 2002 -
GLAS (the Geoscience
Laser Altimeter System) on ICESat (another site here ), scheduled
for January 2003
Radarsat-2 (also info from CSA
here
), scheduled for 2004
Jason-2,
scheduled for 2005
Coriolis
on WindSat, rescheduled for early 2003
National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental
Satellite System (NPOESS), the developing combined U.S. program of NASA,
NOAA, and DoD (also in collaboration with ESA and NASDA) - several planned
sensors over the next several years
CZCS
(Coastal Zone Color Scanner), 1978 - 1986
ERS-1 (European Remote Sensing Satellite
1) SAR, 1991 - 2000
SMMR (Scanning Multichannel Microwave
Radiometer), 1978 - 1987
NScat
(NASA Scatterometer), Aug. 1996 - June 1997
HIRS
(High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder), 1978 - 1999
Seasat,
June - October, 1978
Geosat
(U.S. Navy altimeter), 1986 - 1990
DMSP (Defense Meteorological
Satellite Program), 1978 -
NOAA POES (Polar Operational
Environmental Satellites), also info at the NOAA Office of Satellite Operations and
NASA's POES page
NOAA GOES (Geostationary Operational
Environmental Satellites), also info at the NOAA Office of Satellite Operations
Nimbus-7,
1978 - 1994
TIROS (Television
Infrared Observation Satellite), 1958 - 1987
EOS Aqua, 2002 -
EOS Terra, 1999 -
ADEOS (Advanced Earth Observing
Satellite), Aug. 1996 - June 1997, and ADEOS-II
(launched Dec. 13, 2002)
QuikScat,
1999 -
Envisat, March 2002 -
ICESat (Ice, Cloud, and Land
Elevation Satellite), due to launch January 2003
WindSat,
scheduled for early 2003 launch
NASA Landsat Page, USGS site, and imagery from Landsat.org, (first launched 1972; latest
Landsat 7, 1999 - )
Landsat Pathfinder
Page
SeaWiFS
Ocean Color
Goddard
Ocean Color DAAC
NOAA
Sea Surface Temperature (also El Nino imagery)
NOAA
Real Time SST
NOAA Coral Bleaching Hot
Spots
University of Wisconsin
SST
FNMOC OTIS SST
Analysis (interpolated remote sensing and in situ data)
Naval Oceanographic
Office MCSST
MODIS SST
AVHRR MCSST
AVHRR PODAAC Sea Surface Temperature
Archive
JPL Topex El Nino/La Nina
Watch
Altimetry (Sea Surface Height)
Colorado
Center for Astrodynamics Research Topex/Poseidon Altimetery
NASA TOPEX Data Archive
Topex PODAAC Altimetry
SSM/I Winds from
NOAA
QuikScat Winds from
NOAA/NESDIS
JPL QuikScat Winds
JPL Combined QuikScat Winds and
TRMM Rainfall Images
PMEL
QuikScat Winds
Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder
NSIDC Cryosphere-At-A-Glance
NSIDC Current Sea Ice Conditions
National
Ice Center Daily Sea Ice Products
NOAA/NCEP Sea Ice Analyses
and Forecasts
University
of Illinois Cryosphere Today
Danish Center for
Remote Sensing IWICOS
German Maritime
and Hydrographic Agency Sea Ice Products
Univ. of Wisconsin
Polar Cloud and Radiation Fields
Univ. of Wisconsin Antarctic
Meteorological Research Center
Antarctic
Ozone Concentration
NASA
NDVI Vegetation Index
Landsat Pathfinder
Page
Remote Sensing Systems
Satellite
Remote Sensing and Archaeology
NASA Archaeology Remote
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Landsat "Earth as Art"
