Subject: Satellite Imagery FAQ - 5/5
Supersedes: <sci/Satellite-Imagery-FAQ/part5_824542314@rtfm.mit.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 1996 03:58:27 GMT
References: <sci/Satellite-Imagery-FAQ/part1_827207059@rtfm.mit.edu>
Summary: Satellite Imagery for Earth Observation
X-Last-Updated: 1996/02/14


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

      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 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@CSEARN.BITNET          IMAGRS-L@CSEARN.BITNET
                   (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
           majordomo@eskimo.com            geosci-jobs@eskimo.com
           majordomo@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@CSEARN.BITNET
      (or listserv@EARN.CVUT.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/

   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/


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

   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

