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2EM3 Introduction to Environmental Mapping USEFUL WEBSITES FOR REMOTE SENSING

Remote sensing is a subject that is very well supported on the web by a number of high quality sites. Not suprisingly, many of these are from NASA or one of its associated groups. The general organisations listed below are just some of those whose homepages will contain links to remote sensing topics. More specific information can be obtained from the following sources: Tutorial and education pages are structured sets of pages that aim to teach you about the topic, often in considerable detail. Satellite, instrument and mission pages are devoted to particular spacecraft, their instrumentation or their activities. Portals and links are self explanatory.

General Organisations
BNSC NERC NASA EOS JPL GSFC NOAA USGS British National Space Centre Natural Environment Research Council National Aeronautics and Space Administration Earth Observatory Jet Propulsion Laboratory Goddard Space Flight Center National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration United States Geological Survey

Tutorial and Education Pages

http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_edu.pack/toc.html Categorized set of images and commentary under general name of EOS Educators Visual Materials http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Remote sensing on-line tutorial from NASA http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/service/gallery/fact_sheets/general/sat.htm http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/service/gallery/fact_sheets/general/satsum.htm General pages about satellites http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/classic_scenes/00_classics_index .html CZCS tutorial pages http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/box/satellite/tutorials.htm Satellite meteorology tutorial

Satellite, Instrument and Individual Mission Home Pages

http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/service/gallery/fact_sheets/earthsci/landsat7.htm Landsat 7 page http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/glis/hyper/guide/landsat_tm Landsat thematic mapper http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html SeaWIFS site portal http://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/ TOMS homepage http://web.eos.ucar.edu/hirdls/ Atmospheric sounding mission (pages incomplete) http://www.education.noaa.gov/tspace.html http://www.osd.noaa.gov/GOES/index.htm http://www.osd.noaa.gov/POES/index.htm NOAA Satellite information http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/Sensors/QuikSCAT/SeaWinds.html Radar scatterometry examples http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_homepage/Instruments/MLS/ Microwave limb sounder

Portals and Links

http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_homepage/education.html General entrance to NASA education material http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ Portal for general RM applications http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Topics/atmosphere.html http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Topics/oceans.html http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Topics/land.html http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Topics/heat.html http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Topics/life.html Sub-portals from above http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/ Radar images homepages http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontents USGS environmental change portal http://www.education.noaa.gov/ NOAA portal