A Service for Members of The Remote Sensing Society
This page provides links to WWW resources useful in remote sensing/Earth observation and GIS including image processing, digital elevation models, computing and algorithms, data sources, space centres and other relevant organisations, neural net applications, satellites and sensors ...
Please send comments, suggestions, details of links that should be here, etc. to Paul Mather, University of Nottingham. Also, let me know if you find that any of these links are extinct.
Feedback on this service is improving! Glad to know that one or two people are using this facility
Send me your WWW page address for inclusion in the "People" category. I don't like being on my own.
If you are not a member of The Remote Sensing Society, which provides this service, why don't
you go to our home page at The Remote Sensing Society
Last changed 21 December, 1998
Use the FIND button on your browser to search for a word or phrase, such as spectral library, or click on one of the headings below.
Alliance for Marine Remote Sensing
ASPRS WWW Server for GIS and Remote Sensing Information
British Antarctic Survey
British Geological Survey
British Library Portico Home Page
British National Space Centre
Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University
(US) Central Intelligence Agency a.k.a. CIA
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing Home Page
CCRS (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing)
Canadian Institute of Space & Terrestrial Science
Canadian Centre for Topographic Information - Canada's National Mapping Agency, including material on photogrammetry
Centre de Geostatistique, Ecole des Mines, Fontainebleu - Geostatistics links
Climate Prediction Center
CSIRO Mineral Mapping Technologies Group (Australia). Spectrometry, ARIES hyperspectral project
Delft Univ. of Technology/Space Research & Technology (altimetry, orbits, GPS)
DFD/DLR: German Space Centre
Dundee Centre for Coastal Zone Research
ESSC - Environmental Systems Science Centre, University of Reading, UK
EOSAT (a.k.a. Space Imaging EOSAT) Home Page
European Commission CORDIS Home Page
European Environmental Agency home page
European Science Foundation
European Space Agency
Federation of American Scientists -peace & security; military intelligence photographs etc
GDTA - Training courses in remote sensing and GIS (French, Spanish and English)
Geodata Unit, University of Southampton, UK
German Climate Computing Centre
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research (UK Met OFFice)
Institute Geographique Nationale, IGN
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
InternationalGeographical Union, including Geobase
IOCCG - International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group
ISPRS (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing)
Italian Space Agency
Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy
Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics - Goddard SFC. Excellent source of info on physical aspects of remote sensing
Leicester University, UK, Earth Observation Science page
Leverhulme Trust Home Page
Manchester Computing Centre Home Page
Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College, London, Home Page
NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Observatorium - lots of info, free TM images and software
Nansen Environmental & Remote Sensing Centre, Bergen, Norway
NASDA English Home Page
National Remote Sensing Centre, Farnborough, UK
Natural Environment Research Council
Netherlands Space Research Organisation. Links to other sites, details of ongoing research
NOAA_NESDIS Office of Research & Applications Home Page
Norsk Polarinstitutt
Norwegian Space Centre
Nuffield Foundation - research grants
Image Processing Lab. S. DakotaState University - research on Landsat, AVHRR, etc.
Space Applications Centre, South Africa
Space Science and Engineering Center, Univ of Wisconsin
Space Monitoring Support Lab, Russia
Swedish Development Council for Land Information - sister organisation of AGI
Swedish Land Survey
Swedish Space Corporation home page
The Department of Geography at The University of Nottingham
UK Environmental Change Network
UK Meteorological Office
University of Zurich Remote Sensing Laboratory - SAR interferometry, visualisation, classification .....
US Geological Survey
US Geological Survey - National Mapping & Geospatial Data Standards, incl. DLG
US Global Change Research Information Office
Utrecht - Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
VTT Automation - lots of remote sensing information including a virtual library
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Zurich University Remote Sensing Laboratories
Links to lots of programme home pages from the Dutch CEOS IDN node
BOREAS (Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study)
CEO Desertification Project. Alternative site is http://ewse.jrc.it
Commercial Remote Sensing Program, NASA
EOS Project Science Office
ESA Earth Explorer research programme details
FIFE (First ISLSCP Field Experiment)
GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment)
Global Rain Forest Mapping Programme - Amazon (JERS SAR, SIR-C, Landsat TM etc. etc.)
Global Land 1-km Base Elevation (GLOBE) Project - NOAA - 1km global DEM
Globe Visualisation Project, NASA
HAPEX-Sahel Information System
HYREC: Spatial and Temporal Soil Moisture Mapping from ERS-1 and J-ERS-1 SAR Data and Macroscale Hydrologic Modelling for Regional Climate Models
INFOTERRA: United Nations Environment Programme
LOIS (Land-Ocean Interaction Study of the NERC)
NERC - news on research programmes
MARS Project for EC agricultural monitoring - from the Agricultural Information System (AIS)
MEDALUS II: Desertification in Mediterranean Europe
NASA Mission to Planet Earth
NASA's Third WetNet Precipitation Intercomparison Project (PIP-3)
Public Use of Remote Sensing Data (NASA)
Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission
VEGETATION Preparatory Programme
Comprehensive survey of sensors from Telsat
Jonathan McDowell (Harvard) space report - details of launches, failures, triumphs, etc. etc.
ADEOS Home Page (see Press Release for Death of Adeos, July 1997)
ASTER Announcement of Opportunity
ATSR2 Home Page
ATSR details from Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory (RAL)
AVIRIS home page at JPL
AVNIR first image (on board Japanese ADEOS spacecraft)
Almaz SAR imagery technical details
AVHRR
AVHRR Pathfinder Home Page
AVHRR: Global Land 1km AVHRR Dataset Project
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing Satellite Information List
Earth Science Pictures from NASA
Earlybird (high resolution) satellite progress reports
Earthwatch Inc (Early Bird and Quickbird high-res satellites - see also Eurimage)
Envisat Guide (from DLR)
ENVISAT 1 details from ESA
Envisat conference and information (chat) facility, BNSC/ DERA / Anite Systems
ERS documentation and software from ESA
GLIS - USGS Global Land Information System - includes declassified intelligence images
Goddard DAAC CZCS (Coastal Zone Colour Scanner) WWW Page
CZCS Starter Kit
International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group: Details of Ocean Colour sensors (MOS, MERIS, SeaWIFS, MODIS, POLDER, MISR etc etc.)
Indian IRS-1C satellite
IRS-1C Product Guide
More on IRS-1D including sample images
High Resolution Sensors list from IGBP-DIS
Indian IRS-1C details and free sample image of Tucson, AZ from EOSAT
LANDSAT_TM
Landsat processing Algorithms Guide from ESA (includes details of calibration coefficients. Dated 1995)
Landsat Gateway (Goddard SFC). Includes bibliography.
Landsat programme homepage
Landsat 7 links - hundreds of them
Landsat programme details
Landsat Pathfinder Page (Some nice data sets for teaching?)
Landsat 7 Image assessment System
TRW 'LEWIS' hyperspectral imaging satellite - May 1997 launch (historical interest - launch failure)
MODIS Airborne Simulator
MOMS - German Modular Optoelectronic Multispectral Scanner
NASA/JPL Imaging Radar Home Page
Lots of information on the NOAA/AVHRR
NOAA Polar Satellite Information
NOAA Polar Orbiters User Guide
NOAA 14 Calibration Update from NOAA/NESDIS
SeaWIFS images and details from Orbimage
Radar remote sensing - extensive links (University of British Columbia)
RADARSAT WWW Server
RESURS (Russian sensor) details
SAR User's Guide (Alaska SAR Facility)
Sensors - A list of links from the Dutch CEOS Node
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Calibration Home Page (CEOS)
SEAWIFS (Sea Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor)
SEAWIFS - latest news
SIR-C/X-SAR
SEAWIFS browser at Goddard SFC
SIR-C/X-SAR: Activities of the Institute of Oceanography at the University of Hamburg
Space Mission Acronym List and Hyperlink Guide
Space Shuttle Hand-Held Photography searchable archive
SPIN-2 (SPace Information - High Resolution imagery, mainly from Russian sources (?))
SPOT Image
SPOT
SPOT 4 Launch Details
SPOT 4 sensor details: HRV-IR and Vegetation sensors
VEGETATION Preparatory Programme
Wind Imaging Interferometer
AAG GIS Specialty Group
Agricultural research: GIS awareness package from UNEP GRID
ARCVIEW program to count olive trees from scanned photos from JRC MARS programme
Bureau of Land Management (US Government) GIS Home Page (good links to GIS WWW sites)
Environmental GIS guide for the neophyte
ESRI (Arc-Info)Home Page
Environmental Modelling and GIS Conference Proceedings, 1996
GIS Course online (Nicholas Chrisman)
GRASS Home Page
Infomine: University of California Scholarly Internet Resource Collections: Maps and GIS
GI 2000 - Geographic Information for Europe (European Commission)
Intergraph Corporation, USA
International Cartographic Association - Commission on Visualisation
GIS Conference Proceedings -- online
Searchable GIS bibliographic database
GIS and GIP Software Listing
GIS bibliography at Ohio State
Guide to GIS on the Internet (includes useful shareware/software guide) from Karlsruhe
Introduction to GIS from the USGS
IDRISI Project Home Page
Japanese GIS/Mapping Science Resources Guide
Kingston University Centre for GIS
List of GIS WWW servers
Introduction to Arc-Info
MapInfo Inc.
National Center for Geographical Information & Analysis (NCGIA)
PCRaster - integrating GIS, environmental modelling & geostatistics
University of Lisbon GIS pages - useful software source
UNEP/GRID: Use of GIS in Agricultural Research
GIS vendors' address database - digitising
GIS vendors' address database - software
ANU-DEM from Australian National University
Bruce Gittings's DEM Catalogue
Global Land One-km Base Elevation (GLOBE) Project - NOAA - 1km global DEM
Terrain Visualisation Software
TU Berlin Guide to DEM
USGS GTOPO3 30 arc second elevation data set
File format details - definitive page (bmp, tiff, etc.)
Hierarchical Data Format (HDF)
GEOTIFF Web Page
Graphics File Formats FAQ
Image Alchemy - file format conversions
National Space Science Data Center's Common Data Format (CDF)
Open Information Interchange: Geographical Information Standards: Full details/links of GIS spatial data exchange formats
Unofficial TIFF Home Page
Analysis and segmentation of remote sensing images for land-cover mapping - Paul Smits, JRC
CLIPS: A Tool for Building Expert Systems
CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation
CEOS Cal/Val (calibration/validation) homepage
CNES Remote Sensing Image Processing Research
Colour Technology Page by Charles Poynton
Computer Vision home page - software, test images, publications
Defence Research Agency (UK) Pattern and Information Processing Group
US Imaging Spectroscopy Lab - good tutorial material
Interferometry - useful article by Didier Massonnet from Scientific American
Neural Computing Research Group, Aston University
Neural Network Simulation Toolbox (FAST), incl. visualisation tools - free academic version
Neural nets: guide to Web resources (univ. Tuebingen)
Neural Networks (including free software) from Univ. of Texas at Arlington
Neural network project, University of Valladolid, Spain
Neural Network resources on WWW
Neural Networks in Remote Sensing Interest Group
Mixture modelling - some good pages from the U. of Maryland
Principal Components Analysis - NCGIA Core Curriculum
Spatial Interpolation - free software from Louvain
SAGA: Spatial & Geometric Analysis Toolbox (for Matlab - shareware - 2D interpolation, Delaunay triangulation etc.)
The Wavelet Digest
Australian Environmental Resources Information Network
Desertification Information Network Project
Earth System Science bibliography of textbooks
Environmental Resources - lots of links.
EPA Report - The Probability of Sea Level Rise
Geomorphology WWW resources
GEOWEB: GIS, GPS and Remote Sensing
Hydrological resources and modelling on WWW
Hyperspectral Imaging Resources
International Association of Mathematical Geology (also Computers and Geosciences)
Ocean Science Page - Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Ocean Colour WWW Page
On-line Resources for Earth Scientists
Terrain Science Division, Environment Canada - good material on geology, geomorphology etc.
Upper Midwest Gap Analysis Home Page
VolcanoWorld Home Page
Virtual Geomorphology: Links to many interesting articles/pages over a full range of topics
World Wide Web links for Global Environmental Research
Algorithms, Models and Software (AMS) Project, University of Nottingham (see AMS below for link to CEO AMS system)
AI-Geostatistics Web Site: software, articles, etc.
Algorithms (Fortran) from Applied Statistics
AMS (see above - Algorithms Models and Software) - service of the CEO. Select Algorithms and Software from main menu
Cambridge University Statistics Lab: some papers on geostatistics etc.
CHEST Software Page (UK academic discounts on software)
ERDAS Image Processing Software
ER-MAPPER Image Processing Software
Computers and Geosciences - searchable index
ENVI image processing software - Research Systems Inc
Fortran-90 resources from Goddard SFC
Fortran-90 software repository (NAG)
Fortran to Java software
Fortran resources: some good links to free software provided by Salford Compilers
Fortran Library - links to software for Fortran programmers
Fortran 90 tutorial
Fortran 90 tutorial (looks good!) from Queen's University, Belfast
Fortran 90 essentials (Cornell University)
Fortran resources - links to various software libraries
Fortran-callable Postscript plotting library (free)
Fortran Programmers' Club - incl. online tutorial for Windows95 applications (MS Fortran)
Graphics and Data Analysis software - extensive links from S. Baum
GSLIB: Geostatistical software library (free)
Jorg Arndt's home page - useful source of code for FFT and other transforms
Khoros image processing software
MODTRAN interface (needs IDL) from Zurich University
Multispec (Purdue University) - Mac and Windows image processing (free)
NASA Observatorium - lots of info, free TM images and software
N.A. Software - CAESAR - image processing for SAR data
Netlib - access to all kinds of code for maths/stats
Neural Network Simulation Toolbox (FAST), software incl. visualisation tools - free academic version
O-Matrix - an analysis and display program - statistics, plotting etc - free (Windows)
UK Mirror site for Netlib
Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
Parallel Processing Group
PCI Home Page
PCI ftp site - upgrades, demo images
Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks - home page for Ripley's eponymous book, including source code for cluster analysis
SAIL Model - canopt reflectance modelling. Source code in VAX Fortran.
Salford Software: C++ and Fortran 95 compilers plus Clearwin (Windows interface)
SatTrack software for orbital modelling
Shareware search engine for DOS and Windows search engine.
Scientific Models and Algorithms from Goddard SFC DAAC. Includes SAIL model.
Software for calculating solar illumination angles etc. from Mark Cresswell, Liverpool University
Software guide for geosciences, including GIS, cartography and digital elevation models
S-PLUS for ARC/INFO: Advanced statistics package (S-PLUS) added to GIS ARC/INFO)
Tom's Home Page - everything you need to know about PCs
University of Lisbon - open GIS software
US Bureau of Land Management (GIS code, data, Arc-Info AMLs)
Visualisation software (DISLIN) - Max Planck Institute
Wavelets - good links
Wavelet software guide
Ian Paisley's Web Site: Turn the volume down and have pinches of salt ready
Acronym list from NASA. See also NASA's Glossary of Remote Sensing Terms.
British Rail searchable tmetable - but look at a map first!
Coordinate systems: details of datums from European Petroleum Group
Classical music - BBC Radio 3 Building a Library - 1000 reviews of CDs
Design Info - commercial site with access to engineering catalogues
Calculates distances between places & other interesting pastimes
Digital Atlas of New York City - Prof. W. Bowen, California State University
European Commission DGXIII Telematics for Education and Training Web Site
Federation of American Scientists: Imaging Intelligence on the Web (some satellite imagery)
Flags of the World
Geobooks Online Book Searching Catalogue for GIS, Remote Sensing and Earth Sciences
Geography Departments worldwide - a clickable list organised by country
ISO Archiving Standards - Overview
Jones Telecommunications and Multimedia Encyclopedia
Journal of Improbable Research
Lockheed-Martin satellite launch schedule
Lots of references on Synthetic Aperture Radar from JPL
NASA Space Calendar including satellite launch schedules
Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility Newsletter 22, February 1995
Community, Air and Space Reports: News on Satellite Launches, etc.
Techexpo - includes Earth Observation Magazine
The Global Positioning System (GPS)
History of Computers
Lots of Internet Search Engines
Remote Sensing Acronyms and Abbreviations
Samples of satellite imagery from Russia
Precision Farming Megalinks
Viruses listed in alphabetical order (Symantec) - good bedtime reading
WebCats: Search library resources worldwide.
Webster's dictionary - online definitions of your favo(u)rite words
Weather forecasts for world cities from CNN
Year 2000: some software here to check that your computer is Y2K compliant
Analytical Spectral Devices Inc - portable spectroradiometers
PARABOLA - field radiometer for Bidirectional Reflectance measurement (NASA GSFC)
Chris Kidd, NASA GSFC
Paul M. Mather, University of Nottingham
Insight Wildlife Management Inc - ecology, conservation, education & research
Remote Sensing Application Consultants - staff details
My sister's nursery school in Oswestry, Shropshire
GeoJava: examples of, and links to, Java applications
Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide (December 1988)
Atlantic Scientific Inc - Earthview radar image processing software
Borstad Associates - mapping, monitoring and consulting services world-wide
CHIPS - a low-cost image processing system
Clustering and multivariate analysis software: a guide to what's available on the Net
Earth Observation Sciences Ltd, UK
ENVI and IDL image processing software. See also Opto-Knowledge (below)
ERDAS Image Processing Software
ER-MAPPER Image Processing Software
ESRI (Arc-Info) Home Page
Freeware/shareware SGI/Unix graphics software - details of lots of packages, how to get them
Floating Point Systems - Landform 3D Modeller software
Gamma AG: research/software - SAR and interferometry
Generic Mapping Tools freeware from Hawaii. Click here for the European ftp site for GMT
Gnuplot - freeware function plotting utility (DOS, Unix and VMS)
Gnuplot UK ftp site at Southampton
I-cubed, Ft Collins, CO (Information Integration and Imaging)
ImagePro Plus software for PCs
Image Tool (IT) from Univ of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio - Win95/NT - freeware
Infocarto: Spanish GIS/remote sensing consultancy
Institute Geographique Nationale - IGN, France; some road extraction algorithms (in French)
Intergraph Corporation, USA
Intergraph UK Ltd
I.S. Ltd - UK distributors for PCI EasiPace and Roots digitising etc. etc.
LINKWINDS - free visual data exploration system from JPL.
MapInfo Inc.
ImageTool for Win95 and NT from University of Texas Health Science Center
Mapmaster GIS including demos.
MERLIN software (UNIX): display system for environmental data, especially NOAA/NASA Pathfinder
NASA Observatorium - lots of info, free TM images and software
N.A. Software - CAESAR - image processing for SAR data
NeuroDimension Inc - neural network software
NIH Image software for Mac from National Institute of Mental Health
Opto-Knowledge Systems Inc - Hyperspectral remote sensing, ENVI add-ons
PCI (including ftp site)
Satellite Observing Systems - look here for marine applications
Silicon Graphics UK home page
Spacepix - from Swedish Space Corporation Satellitbild - high resolution images
SPOT Image
SPOT Image Company
Taylor & Francis, Publishers of International Journal of Remote Sensing
The Soft Earth - tour of the web for geoscientists - software source guide. This is a mirror at Liverpool
This is the original Soft Earth site (see previous line)
TNT-MIPS image processing (Microimages) (free TNTlite remote sensing/GIS package)
Tydac Technologies (SPANS GIS)
Univ. of California, Davis, Remote Sensing Group Software page - details of packages.
Watson's NNGRIDR software (in book form - C code) for 2D interpolation
Wavelet transform software (image compression) from Summus Ltd.
Xerox Park Map Viewer - allows selection of World/USA map from HTML
Bibliography on pattern recognition (search engine) at Delft Tech. University
CEOS CDROM: Resources in Earth Observation . Lots of material for teaching/self-learning
David Osborne's Geography, GIS, Remote Sensing and Earth Sciences Links
Geography WWW sites
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Newsletter
IEEE publications - contents list
Macaulay Institute (Chris Skelsey): details of expert systems, GIS and image processing for land cover
Manchester University's excellent guide to Remote Sensing
OKSI's detailed list including hyperspectral resources
Rawhide Space Page (Brian Webb) - includes Vandenberg AFB launch schedules
Remote sensing guide from Stephen Braganza - details of sensors, companies, etc. etc. etc.
Research in remote sensing (Louvain)
Pedro Marauri's ER-MAPPER page (in Spanish) with good links to other sites
RS Information Page
Scicentral science page - good links for RS/GIS
University of Georgia guide to GIS and spatial analysis links
VTT Automation - Extensive list of links
William Cheung's (Hong Kong) links - pattern recognition, neural nets, etc. etc.
Wim Bakker's pages at ITC - lots of good links!
Academic Press journals online
AVIRIS documents (hyperspectral) from JPL
Digital Image Processing tutorial using Khoros
EOS - Transactions of the American Geophysical Union Electronic Supplement
ESA publications, including Earth Observation Quarterly
Earth Observation Magazine Online
ERS Symposium #3, Florence, March 1997 - online access to papers.
Fringe 96: ESA Workshop on Applications of ERS SAR Interferometry, 30 September - 2 October 1996, University of Zurich (contains abstracts and papers)
Geomorphology from Space, ed. Nicholas Short - this 1986 NASA publication is now on line
GeoWeb articles on GIS and remote sensing (online)
Hyperspectrum Newsletter from Opto-Knowledge Systems Inc, Torrance, CA
Image Processing instructional database
Institute of British Geographers - Online Transactions
JPL's Basics of Spaceflight online book - everything you wanted to know about space, EMR, etc. etc...!
Kluwer Academic Publishers (GeoInformatica journal and others)
N.A. Software - SAR research papers
National Council for Geographic Education - Remote Sensing Task Force
NASA Observatorium Education Page: Remote Sensing Basics + good links to other sites
NASA's Remote Sensing Tutorial by Nicholas Short - excellent textbook if the link is fast!
Ocean Colour bibliography from IOCCG
Ocean Colour bibliography from NASA
Remote Sensing Core Curriculum - 4 volumes.
Our Changing Planet - US Global Change Research Programme Reports
Remote Sensing Guide, Peter Mouginis-Mark, University of Hawaii
Remote Sensing lectures, University of Utah
Space Imaging company - Technical Papers (mainly about Landsat)
Global Change Calendar of meetings, conferences etc. - provided by NASA
Remote Sensing Society list of forthcoming conferences
GIS bibliography at Ohio State
GIS bibliographic database at Edinburgh
Pattern Recognition bibliographic database at TU Delft
Agricultural Information System (AIS) incl. MARS Project details
ESA Applications of Remote Sensing
CEOS Disaster Management Support Project
Public domain mapping and graphics resources CDROM from Fred Popeschil
Map Projection Home Page by Karen Mulcahy, Hunter College, CUNY
National Geodesic Service - PC software/programs: GPS coordinate transformation, etc. etc.
Odden's Bookmarks - look here for everything and anything about maps
MEGRIN - metadata on European maps (IGN, France)
Perry-Castenada Library Map Collection (University of Texas) (mirrror site in Germany)
Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, Univ of Iowa - literally hundreds of links to maps, gazeteers and tutorial stuff