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Academic Institutions

• Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Res., Univ. of Col. Topex/Poseidon, DEMOS, GPS, Orbital Debris, etc.
• Dundee Univ. (UK) Satellite Stat.
• Florida EXPLORES! Weather Satellite Guide
• Nottingham Univ. (UK) Meteosat Images
• Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison Space Science & Engineering Center
• Utah Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing.

Commercial Sites

• GeoWeb. A commercial list of GIS, GPS and Remote Sensing resources, mostly from commercial providers. Repeatedly spams Usenet news groups with annoying, out-of-date, off-topic ads disguised as job announcements.
• Remote Sensing Systems. A provider of satellite data products.

Data Archives

• CEOS IDN Datasets List. Holy cow, Batman! This is big. Takes forever to load and render, but worth it.
• Digital Geospatial Data Source Directory
• EOS Data Resources
• JPL El Nino pictures.
• JPL SSM/I wind data set.
• NASA Goddard Data Assimilation Office.
• NESDIS ERS-2 Scatterometer Surface Winds. Current and yesterday.
• NESDIS SSM/I Microwave Radiometer Surface Winds. Current and yesterday.
• Peter Lyster's Earth and Space Science Data Page. Look here for satellite data sets in particular.
• US Navy Master Environmental Library (MEL)

Experiment or Project

• AVHRR Archive. Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer images from Univ. of Rhode Island.
• Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES). Online documentation.
• Earth Observing System (EOS) Program Office.
• Earth Observing System (EOS) Project Science Office
• GRAVSAT
• Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Project (GERB)
• Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) home page
• IGOS - Integrated Global Observing Strategy
• JPL Imaging Radar Home Page
• JPL Topex/Poseidon satellite page
• NASA ADEOS page
• NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT)
• NASDA Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS)
• NOAA DMSP home page
• NSCAT Data Page at JPL
• NSCAT Scatterometer
• RADARSAT
• RADARSAT Geophysical Processor System
• SeaWIFS ocean color project
• The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE).
• USGS AVHRR Guide.
• USGS Landsat Guide.

Governments outside the US

• National Space Agency of Japan (NASDA)

Publications

• Satellite papers by Eric Salathé

Software

• Manifold System. Inexpensive GIS and graphics.

Tutorials and FAQs

• EOS FAQ.
• NASA Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) has a number of fact sheets on ozone under More Information.
• Radar Mapping Home Page. A very good intro to techniques from Hunter College.
• Satellite Imagery FAQ. This is a very good resource.

US Government Institutions

• NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• NASA Langley Atmospheric Sciences Division.
• NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry.
• US Navy Geosat Follow-On (GFO).

Web Indexes

• Oliver Weatherbee's Remote Sensing/GPS/GIS Data & Information page
• Remko Scharroo's bookmarks. Good on satellite altimetry.
• WWW Virtual Library: Remote Sensing

Paul D. Farrar

Last updated 17 Jul 03