The web is a major resource for information on remote sensing. There are many educational sites, tutorials, overviews of remote sensing agencies - companies - research programs, and most of all data. However, the volume and variety of this information is often overwhelming. Below we have selected some key sites targeting those wanting to obtain basic data and information on remote sensing. Our intent is to provide beginners with a manageable list of particularly useful sites. These are our picks, and we would be happy to receive comments and suggestions to improve this resource.

Educational Resources

  • Xpeditions @ nationalgeographic.com
    The home of geography standards on the Internet. This unprecedented array of resources makes teaching and learning about our world easier than ever before.

  • USGS Educational Sites
    The Learning Web, Biology, Geology, Mapping, Water

  • The GLOBE Program

  • NASA CORE
    Central Operation of Resources for Educators, your resource for multimedia materials for the classroom

  • Virtually Hawaii!!
    The primary objective of the Virtually Hawaii project is to assemble a data base of satellite, space shuttle (such as the example above), and aircraft remote sensing images covering the state of Hawaii. These images are available via the Internet, along with hand-held ground photographs and descriptive and educational text. By providing direct access to NASA image data and their descriptions, this site enables individuals all over the world to learn about Hawaii, thereby enhancing the primary industry in Hawaii, tourism. Tourism is economically vital to Hawaii, attracting over five million visitors each year to enjoy the beauty of the islands.

  • NASA Education Programs

  • Looking at Earth from Space

  • NASA's Observatorium
    NASA's Observatorium is a public access site for Earth and space data. It includes pictures of the Earth, planets, stars, and other cool stuff, as well as the stories behind those images.

  • NASA Spacelink
    An Aeronautics & Space Resource for Educators

  • Goddard DACC Education Resources

  • JPL Education and Outreach

  • Earth from Space
    An Astronaut's Views of the Home Planet
Remote sensing tutorials

  • Remote Sensing Tutorial Cover Page
    The Applied Information Sciences Branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is heavily involved in technology outreach and transfer. As part of this activity, they recognized the need for a highly intuitive, easily accessible remote sensing tutorial that hopefully will serve as a primer for the new user as well as a teaching tool for the educational community. This tutorial provides a detailed understanding of the utility of the data in light of the fundamental principles of electromagnetic energy, especially as they relate to sensor design and function.

  • CCRS Remote Sensing Tutorial
    The Canada Centre for Remote Sensing offers this tutorial on remote sensing technology and its applications. This interactive module is intended as an overview at a senior high school or early university level and touches on physics, environmental sciences, mathematics, computer sciences and geography.

  • Remote Sensing Curriculum/Tutorials
    Introduction to Photo Interpretation and Photogrammetry; Overview of Remote Sensing of the Environment; Introductory Digital Image Processing; Applications to Remote Sensing; K-12 Education

  • Purdue/LARS MultiSpec
    MultiSpec is being developed at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, by David Landgrebe and Larry Biehl from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and LARS. It results from an on-going multiyear research effort which is intended to define robust and fundamentally based technology for analyzing multispectral and hyperspectral image data, and to transfer this technology to the user community in as rapid a manner as possible. The results of the research are implemented into MultiSpec and made available to the user community via the download pages. MultiSpec(c) with its documentation(c) is distributed without charge.

  • Image Processing Online
    This online image processing system is part of a Geoscience Awareness education kit "Discovering Remote Sensing". Pressing the start button below will take you to our online image processing system where you can do simple RGB images of different band of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) satellite data for the Murwillumbah area on the east coast of Australia.

  • The Remote Sensing Process

  • Virtual Library: Remote Sensing

  • Remote Sensing Image Archives

  • Open Source Remote Sensing Effort
    This site is dedicated to making remote sensing algorithms, code, and technology available to all interested parties.
GIS (Geographic Information Systems)

Hyperspectral/Radar

  • USGS Spectroscopy Lab
    Researchers at the USGS Spectroscopy Lab are studying and applying methods for identifying and mapping materials through spectroscopic remote sensing (called imaging spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging, imaging spectrometry, ultraspectral imaging, etc), on the earth and throughout the solar system using laboratory, field, airborne and spacecraft spectrometers.

  • IMINT - Hyperspectral Imaging
    The utility of subdividing the ultraviolet, visible and infrared spectra into distinct bins for imaging has long been known. In Multispectral Imaging (MSI), multiple images of a scene or object are created using light from different parts of the spectrum. If the proper wavelengths are selected, multispectral images can be used to detect many important items

  • JPL Imaging Radar
    The Imaging Radar Home Page is based out of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. There are three objectives for this Web site:
    1. Inform the public about the work NASA and JPL (and other institutions) are conducting in radar remote sensing of the Earth's surface.
    2. Describe to any and all interested users how they may obtain, use, and analyze radar data and images.
    3. Educational outreach.
Volcanoes

Weather and Climate

  • NOAASIS - Satellite and Direct Readout Information
    The NOAA Satellite Information System (NOAASIS) web site is a central location for finding information about NOAA environmental satellites (GOES and POES). Information is provided by various contributors within the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Service (NESDIS) and the external satellite community. This site provides information of particular interest to users who operate their own direct readout receiving stations.

  • NCDC Climate Visualization
    NCDC is the world's largest active archive of weather data.

  • DDL: The Chihuahuan Desert
    • Sources of Data

    • TerraServer Homepage
      USGS DRG and DOQ images are featured at the Microsoft TerraServer Web site that serves as an access point for viewing samples of these images and retrieving Web-compatible versions of them over the Internet.

    • EROS
    		Map Making