Remote Sensing

American Society for Photogrammertry and Remote Sensing
Founded in 1934, the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) is a scientific association serving over 7,000 professional members around the world. Our mission is to advance knowledge and improve understanding of mapping sciences to promote the responsible applications of photogrammetry, remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), and supporting technologies.

Core Software Technology
Core Software Technology is the creator and provider of ImageNet.com , an Internet Portal for easy access to information about the world. ImageNet.com was developed to address the difficulty inherent in finding scattered geospatial information. Core discovered, through working with its clients, that almost 75% of their project's time was devoted to locating the necessary geographic data -- ImageNet reduced this search time from months to minutes.
[ ImageNet.com Homepage ]   

Earth Satellite Coroporation (EarthSat)
Earth Satellite Corporation (EarthSat) is an international professional services firm which specializes in the development and application of remote sensing and geographic information technologies (GIS). EarthSat projects focus on the exploration, sustainable development and management of the Earth's resources and the monitoring of the environment.

EROS Data Center
The Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center, located in Sioux Falls, SD is a data management, systems development, and research field center of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Mapping Division. The Center was established in the early 1970's to receive, process, and distribute data from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Landsat satellites. The Center holds the world's largest collection of space and aircraft acquired imagery of the Earth. These holdings include over 2 million images acquired from satellites and over 8 million aerial photographs. The Center is also a major focal point for information concerning the holdings of foreign Landsat ground reception stations and data acquired by other countries' Earth observing satellites.
[ Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) ] [ Earthshots ] [ GloVis ]

Euromap
For the first time in Germany, an efficient commercial structure now exists to receive, archive and market satellite Earth observation data. Experience and expertise in data reception and data processing is being optimally combined at Euromap with the required marketing and distribution activities - an essential precondition for flexibly serving the growing market for remote sensing data.
[ IRS 1C Satellite Products ]

European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
The activities of EUMETSAT contribute to a global meteorological satellite observing system coordinated with other space-faring nations. EUMETSAT is an intergovernmental organisation created through an international convention agreed by 17 European Member States. These States fund the EUMETSAT programmes and are the principal users of the systems.

European Space Agency (ESA)
The European Space Agency (ESA) is an international organization composed of 14 Member States which aims to "provide for and to promote, for exclusively peaceful purposes, cooperation among European States in space research and technology and their space applications, with a view to their being used for scientific purposes and operational space applications systems."
[ EarthNet Online ] [ Observing The Earth ]

Federation of Earth Science Information Partners
The Federation maintains over 2,000 Earth Science datasets. Every one is available to scientists, educators, policy makers, students, and the general public. The vast majority of the data is free. Federation partners are working together to develop new datasets that apply to specific interests bringing Earth science data to an ever expanding arena of users.
[ GLCF ] [ TRFIC ]

GIS and Remote Sensing Links
A collection of links from the Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies. (CALMIT)

Global Land Cover Facility
The Global Land Cover Facility provides free online access to Landsat and MODIS imagery and products. The Earth Science Data Interface (ESDI) at the GLCF allows users to query and display any of the over 20,000 Landsat scenes, including global coverage at multiple dates, as well as a variety of MODIS and land cover products. Land Cover dynamics products and similar datasets are also available at the local, regional or global scales.

Global Vegetation Monitoring
The GVM Unit's mission is to provide accurate information on changes in the world's vegetation cover as needed for EU policy in the areas of environment, development and external affairs. The focus is provision of information and methodologies that support the implementation of international environmental treaties and conventions (such as the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention to Combat Desertification and the Convention on Biological Diversity) and to support the EU's aid and development programmes.

Indian Remote Sensing Satellites
Past, presently working and future Indian satellites. This site also contains links to ISRO Centres.

National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA)
The National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) was established on October 1 , 1969, under the National Space Development Agency Law, to act as the nucleus for the development of space and promote the peaceful use of space.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is composed of a diverse group of men and women at NASA Headquarters and the Agency's 10 field installations around the country. NASA,however, does not accomplish its mission alone, but in partnership with large and small contractors, members of the academic community, other Federal, State, and local agencies, and other space agencies from nations around the globe. Together, these entities form a comprehensive, highly skilled team that is dedicated to providing high-quality, technologically superior products and services to its customers.
[ Goddard Space Flight Center - Earth ] [ Landsat 7 Homepage ]
[ NASA on Remote Sensing ] [ Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Earth ]
[ Johnson Space Center - Shuttle Photography ] [ Shuttle Radar Topography Mission ]
[ NASA Earth Observatory ] [ Langley Research Center ]
[ Stennis Space Center ]

National Geographic's Map Machine
Sample the Cartographic Division's online maps. This collection will be continously updated and expanded.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
NOAA is a national program suppling research and materials for weather, oceans, coastal areas, fisheries, climate and charting and navigation.
[ NOAA EIS ] [ NOAA Satellites ] [ DMSP ] [ NCDC ] [ GOES ] [ NESDIS ] [ NGDC ]

Radarsat
A national program in remote sensing is coordinated by the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) in cooperation with other agencies of the Government of Canada, provincial governments, industry and Canadian universities. Established in 1971, CCRS is responsible for the acquisition of Earth observation data and for the development of remote sensing applications and related methodologies and systems.

Remote Sensing and Environmental Treaties Workshop
he rapid growth in the number of environmental treaties since the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Environment has been an encouraging sign of international commitment to protecting the environment. The Earth Summit in 1992 provided added impetus to the establishment of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), with the formation of three major conventions: the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD), and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC). MEAs now address almost every conceivable part of the Earth's biophysical systems.

Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society
The RSPSoc (Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society) gives you access to the world of remote sensing and photogrammetry. The RSPSoc is a new Society, which has formed through the merger of the former Remote Sensing Society and Photogrammetric Society. This merger followed from the increasing convergence of remote sensing and photogrammetry, together with a growing need to develop capabilities and expertise in the use of both remotely sensed and photogrammetric data.
[ ISPRS ] [ Geocarto International Centre ]

Sovinformsputnik
From the time of its foundation in 1991 SOVINFORMSPUTNIK has opened for customers and users all over the world new possibilities in acquisition of the unique Earth surface remote sensing data, not previously allowed for commercial distribution and use. The Company was founded by a number of enterprises of industry responsible for development, manufacturing and operation of modern remote sensing systems, which until just recently were used only for defense purposes. The strategic direction of our activity is satellite survey, commercial distribution of the data, acquired by the above mentioned systems, and provision of added value products and services for peaceful and scientific purposes.

Space Imaging
Since its founding in late 1994, Denver, Colorado-based Space Imaging has quickly become a world leader in digital Earth information to better map, measure, monitor, and manage the world we live in - from our national assets to global crop production. Space Imaging's already diverse collection of resources grew with the launch of IKONOS, the world's first one-meter resolution, commercial imaging satellite, on September 24, 1999. The addition of the IKONOS satellite to Space Imaging's portfolio enables the company to produce more economical information products with delivery timelines that far exceed the standards in the marketplace.

SPOT Image
Spot Image is the commercial operator of the Spot system, but also offers products and services derived from various optical and radar sensors with resolutions ranging from 1 km to 1 m.