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USDA
Forest Services Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC)
The Remote Sensing Applications
Center (RSAC), is organized into four program areas to provide technology
evaluation, development, and training support in the use of remote sensing,
Geographic Information Systems, image processing, and Global Positioning
Systems for all resource applications. The site is located
at http://www.fs.fed.us/eng/remsense/rem/index.htm.
Census
Bureau Search Tool
Http://www.census.gov/main/www/srchtool.html.
Offers links to the Census Bureau's library of on-line documents and files.
Provides WAIS searching, a U.S. gazetteer, datamaps and a staff directory.
Tiger
Mapping Service
Tiger is Census' incredible coast to
coast digital map data base of demographic, economic, and related census
information. The '97 Tiger/Line data may be obtained at the following site:
http://tiger.census.gov/.
U.S.
Bureau of Census
U.S. Bureau of Census on-line gazetteer.
For U.S. locations only.
To access this data through anonymous ftp go to ftp:// ftp.epa.gov. Logon as Anonymous and use your email address as your password. Change your directory cd/pub/EPAGIRAS.
EPA
National GIS Program
Http://www.epa.gov/ngispr serves as
a focal point for GIS issues within the EPA. The program is responsible
for maintaining an agency wide support network plus sharing GIS data and
expertise.
EPA
Spatial Data Library System
A repository for the agency's new and
archival geospatial data holdings located at http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/esdls/esdls_over.html.
ENVIROFACTS
ENVIROFACTS, available at http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index_java.html,
provides public access to EPA Program Systems data and contains data from
the EPA's CERCLIS data base, the Permit Compliance System and the Toxic
Release Inventory System. A prototype system provides cross-link information
on chemical hazards from the PCS, RCRIS, and TRIS. Future Plans include
access to the U.S. Census Summary Tape File (STF) data for each county
in the U.S.
1987-1992
Toxic Release Inventory ARC/INFO Coverage
The TRI compiles disclosure statements
from companies that generate toxic waste. It includes facility ID, facility
name, facility address and latitude/longitude, chemical releases by year
and transfers by medium, quantities released, and other information. To
access this data through anonymous ftp, ftp.epa.gov.
Logon as Anonymous and use your email address as your password. To change
the directory enter cd: pub/gopher/TRI_Coverages. Enter the following commands
to retrieve documents:
get metadata.txtget doc2.txt
get doc3.txt
get doc4.txt
USGS
Global 30 Arc-second Elevation Data (GTOPO30)
This USGS/United Nations joint effort
provides 1-km elevation data, slope and watershed raster data worldwide.
The data resolution is comparable to 1-km AVHRR satellite imagery.
A related project provides land cover data at 1-km resolution; see http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/
landDAAc/glcc/glcc_na.html.
Federal
Geographic Data Committee
This site, http://www.fgdc.gov, includes
links to the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse, plus entries for federal,
state, university, thematic, foreign, commercial, and miscellaneous data
sources.
Human
Impacts Mapping From USGS-NASA
The EROS/Ames research group provides
a bridge between basic research and applications for earth science and
resource management. This site includes images and in-depth information
on current projects in: temporal urban mapping, human induced land transformations,
land cover data, elevation framework data base and environmental data systems
research. Demonstration projects have been conducted in the San Francisco
Bay and Washington DC-Baltimore regions. The site is located at http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/usgs/erosames.html.
Landsat
Archive
Although Landsat is operated by NASA,
its imagery is archived and distributed by USGS. Landsat's mission
"to provide for repetitive acquisition of high resolution multispectral
data of the earth's surface on a global basis." A comprehensive guide to
Landsat data is available at this location, http://grid.cr.usgs.gov/landsat/.
Landscape
Transformations -- (formerly HILT)
This site's maps display patterns
and rates of human induced land transformations at the regional scale for
the last 200 years, and make predictions for the next 200 years. Through
the Urban Dynamics program, USGS is examining the impact urbanization has
on the landscape. After two pilot studies USGS developed the approach and
a number of preliminary products, they are initiating the study of four
additional super-metropolitan regions over the next three years. This links
to the USGS San Francisco Bay project via http://urban.wr.usgs.gov/urban.html.
National
Geospatial Data Clearinghouse -- NGDC
This address, http://fgdc.er.usgs.gov,
provides access to metadata describing remote sensing data sets. The information
is available in electronic form through the USGS node of the interagency
National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse (NGDC).
USGS
Biological Resources Division, Remote Sensing Unit
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
11510 American Holly Drive
Laurel, MD 20708-4017
Tel: +1 301-497-5636
Fax: +1 301-497-5666
Email: ian_thomas@nbs.gov
http://www.mbr.nbs.gov
USGS
Digital Elevation Model Data Formats (DEMs)
DEMs are civilian cousins of NIMA's
higher accuracy DTEDs. DEM data information can be found at http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/nmpstds/demstds.html.
U.S.
Geological Survey Gazetteer
This gazetteer includes U.S. territories
and Antarctica place names. It can also be accessed via Yale University
at http://www.peabody.yale.edu/other/gnis.
USGS
Earth Observation Center National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive
The National Satellite Land Remote
Sensing Data Archive located at http://edc.usgs.gov/programs/nslrsda/search.html
provides preservation of, and access to all non-classified, U.S. government
satellite-acquired land remote sensing data. The Archive includes data
generated by the Landsat system and by other systems licensed by the U.S.
government, plus some data collected by foreign ground stations and sensor
systems. The Archive currently includes all minimally processed U.S.- held
Landsat 1-5 Multispectral Scanner (MSS) and Thematic Mapper (TM) data that
is referenced in the EDC Landsat data base.
USGS
EROS Data Center
The EROS Data Center (EDC), is among
the best of the U.S. government sites concerning remote sensing. It provides
access to available declassified intelligence satellite photography, Landsat
imagery, GLIS, (for access to GLIS see below) and a comprehensive collection
of geospatial data on the United States. It is located at http://edcwww.cr.usgs.
gov/eros-home.html
USGS
Global Land Information System -- GLIS
The Global Land Information System
(GLIS) is an on-line, interactive source for information about the Earth's
land surface. GLIS permits on-line browsing and ordering from very large
libraries of government imagery, including U.S. government, AVHRR, SIR,
Canadian and European data. GLIS includes regional, continental, and global
land information on land use, land cover, cultural and topographic data,
and remotely sensed satellite and aircraft data. GLIS is continually updated.
On-line requests for earth science data can be placed via GLIS. Price and
ordering information is available through the producing organization.GLIS
can be accessed at http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/glis/glis.html. GLIS
provides access to declassified U.S. intelligence satellite imagery as
it becomes publicly available/
In addition to the WWW site, GLIS system
software and some accompanying data are available free of charge through
these three interfaces:
1) ASCII Text Interface: Internet users can access the text-based functions through the commands TELNET glis.cr.usgs.gov or TELNET 152.61.128.7. Modem users can access the text-based system by setting their modems to 8 bits, no parity, and 1 stop bit, and then dialing 605-594-6888.USGS Scientific Assessment and Strategy Team -- SAST2) PC Interface (Maps and Graphics): uses PC PC-GLIS software as an enhanced graphic front end to GLIS. This allows interactive selection of geographic areas and linking images with maps. PC-GLIS software is free of charge. To request the software e-mail to glis@glis.cr.usgs.gov.
3) X-Terminal Interface: similar to PC Interface, but faster and more powerful. Requirements to run a local X-GLIS client on a workstation include a SUN 4 (SPARC) UNIX with a 4.1.1 or greater operating system; a connection to Internet with the ability to connect to xglis.cr.usgs.gov (152.61.192.37); and a GLIS directory with a minimum 20 megabytes of hard disk space. The X-GLIS client software can be obtained by anonymous FTP at edcftp.cr.usgs.gov. Use your e-mail address as the password, then go to the /pub/software/xglis directory.
USGS
San Francisco Bay Project
This is a demonstration that fuses
many layers of imagery and geospatial information about the San Francisco
Bay and Delta area. This site, http://sfbay.wr.usgs.gov/, features point-and-
click selection of digital maps, data on water flow, hazards, water quality,
plus zooming to the resolution you choose. The project includes display
of human impact on ecology of the region charted over several hundred years.
USGS
Land Use and Land Cover Project -- LULC
The project aims at devising a standard
land use classification scale integrating land use and land cover data
on the Vancouver, WA area. The site, located at http://nsdi.usgs.gov/products/lulc.html,
includes sophisticated LULC sample files.
USGS
National Water Mapping Information System
This site includes tens of thousands
of records on stream flow throughout the continental United States, with
some online records dating back more than a century. Most of the
data is contemporary, however, and useful for emergency management, pollution
tracking, licensing decisions and water rights disputes.
USGS Office of Water Information
440 National Center
Reston, VA 20192
Tel: +1 703-648-5604
Fax: +1 703-648-5644
Email: gwendt@usgs.gov
Aircraft Data FacilityATRWG - Automatic Target Recognizer Working Group
MS 240-6
1-415-604-6252Medium Altitude Missions Branch
MS 211-12
1-415-604-5336
Acronyms,
Military and Space
Brought to you by Fort Gordon, it contains
an alpahbetical search. The site is located at http://www.gordon.army.mil/roa/aftb/soup.htm.
Advanced
Projects Research Agency (ARPA)
The Defense Department's primary high
tech research agency. Located at http://www.arpa.mil
Air
Force Global Weather Center - Offut AFB (AFGWC)
The USAF Global Weather Central ( http://afwin.offutt.af.mil:443)
is collocated with the Strategic Air Command (http://www.stratcom.af.mil/index.html)
at Offut AFB near Omaha, Nebraska. The GWC is the USAF command and
control base as well as the central processing facility for for DMSP weather
satellite system.
Air
Force Space Command (AFSPC)
This is the home page for the U.S Air
Force's command-level organization for space-based communication, earth
observation and space warfare activities. This site is collocated
with U.S. Space Command http://www.spacecom.af.mil/ usspace/index.htm,
which is tasked with providing inter-service coordination of U.S. space
war strategy, tactics and day-to-day activities.
Air
Force Space Page
Home page of the Air Force Space and
Missile Systems Directorate for Program Management. Many links to
all aspects of aerospace.
Air Force
WWW Gateway
Good general gateway to US Air Force
WWW sites at http://www.af.mil.
Army
WWW Gateway
Good general gateway to US Army WWW
sites. URL: http://www.army.mil.
Army
Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC)
This is the home page for the U.S.
Army's command-level organization for space-based communications, earth
observation, and space warfare activities.
Army
Topographic Engineering Center - Survey Engineering and Mapping Center
This site, http://www.tec.army.mil/index.html
offers software and advanced modeling techniques for geospatial data collection
and processing.
Army
Weapons Systems Handbook
This is a searchable database, not
a book. It has compiled fact sheets on hundreds of U.S. Army weapons
and intelligence-gathering systems, including earth observation satellites.
Backgrounds
Data Center at the Naval Research Laboratory
The Backgrounds Data Center (BDC) is
one of the Data Archive Centers for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
(BMDO). The BDC was established to assist ballistic and theater missile
defense specialists with information needed to evaluate Strategic Defense
System feasibility, development, and implementation. The site has links
to space science, earth science, meteorological, and remote sensing WWW
pages.
Ballistic
Missile Defense Organization
A DoD-wide program focused on missile
defense strategy and tactics, including some R&D and intelligence analysis.
It also has links to the Central Imagery Office (CIO). This site is located
at http://www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/bmdolink/html/.
Battlespace
Environment Division - USAF
Tracks space junk and ionosphere hazards
to the USAF "warfighting systems." BED specialized in clarifying
and/or exploiting "background clutter" for high altitude intelligence-gathering
or attacks with weapons of mass destruction.
Central
Intelligence Agency
This is a basic CIA site intended mainly
for public relations and recruiting, but it includes some links to unclassified
CIA products such as the CIA World Fact Book. The site is located at http://www.odci.gov/
cia/index.html.
CIABASE
-- Bibliography Concerning Intelligence Activities
CIABASE is a non-governmental service
that provides data on the CIA and other intelligence agencies from information
gleaned from 850+ sources such as congressional reports, newspapers, magazines,
and more than 450 books. CIABASE, at http://www.webcom.com/%7epinknoiz/covert/ciabase.html,
offers about 10MBs of annotated entries concerning intelligence community
people, policies and events divided into 100+ categories. Also available
on CD-ROM for both IBM compatible and MacIntosh personal computers.
Coast
Guard WWW gateway
Good general gateway to US Coast Guard
WWW sites at http://www.uscg.mil/.
Cooperative
Threat Reduction Program
A DoD experiment in partial information
transparency. The site is located at http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/ctr.
It is mainly aimed at providing information about U.S. efforts to eliminate
nuclear weapons in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
Declassified
Intelligence Satellite Imagery
About 800,000 declassified U.S. intelligence
satellite images from the 1960s and early 1970s were released during 1995-1997.
Images can be browsed for free at this site or purchased through the EROS
Data Center. The URL for this site is http://edc.usgs.gov/Webglis/glisbin/search.pl?DISP.
Defense
Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) "Nighttime Lights of the World"
Data
Nighttime lights, fires, flares and
similar information collected worldwide in near-infared band. The
program uses the same grid as the USGS Global AVHRR project, and reveals
human settlements, energy use and related information. See http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html
Defense
Information Systems Agency -- DISA
Department of Defense at agency for
developing and maintaining advanced data networks for both tactical and
strategic applications. Located at http://www.disa.mil/.
Defense
Intelligence Agency -- DIA
Not much content here as yet, but worth
watching. Located at http://www.dia.mil.
Defense
Intelligence Agency Missile and Space Intelligence Center
MSIC is DIA's focal point for monitoring
the Missile Technology Control Regime agreements and related arms proliferation
issues. Very little content is presently available at this site, which
is located at http://msic.dia.mil.
Defense
Link
DefenseLINK has emerged in recent years
as a consolidated reference source on all unclassified aspects of the U.S.
Military and a jumpstation to hundreds of U.S. Military URLs. Operated
by the Department of Defense at http://www.dtic.mil/defenselink, it is
often the most accessible DOD entry point during periods of peak usage.
Defense
Meteorological Satellite Program -- U.S. Air Force Home page
Satellite imagery at the Fleet Numerical
Meteorological and Oceanographic Center is provided by the Defense Meteorological
Satellite Program (DMSP). This imagery is derived from polar orbiting satellites
and merged to produce a mosaic images of the entire world. Desired
options can be selected and images can be retrieved at http://www.laafb.af.mil/SMC/CI/.
Defense
Meteorological Satellite Program -- NASA/JPL Home page
At present this is the most concise
and useful of the DMSP pages. It includes technical and administrative
data, plus a specialized glossary and acronyms list. Key ground receiving
stations are located at Fairchild AFB, Washington (http://www.fairchild.af.mil),
Thule, Greenland (Denmark), AF Remote Tracking Station, Hickam AFB, Hawaii
(http://www.hqpacaf.af.mil or www.cioss.af.mil), New Hampshire Tracking
Station, New Boston, NH.
Defense
Meteorological Satellite Program - - NOAA Home Page
This site provides information about,
and sample data from, the NOAA's part in the Defense Meteorological Satellite
Program (DMSP). DMSP is a two satellite constellation of near-polar orbiting,
sun-synchronous satellites monitoring meteorological, oceanographic and
solar-terrestrial physics environments. This is located at http://www.
ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html.
Department
of Defense Manned Space Flight Support Office
This is the DoD level space policy
and activities organization. Department of Defense Manned Space Flight
Support Office (DDMS), at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, is the single
point of contact to coordinate all DOD contingency support to the United
State’s manned space flight programs.
Department
of Defense, Master Environmental Library -- MEL
MEL is an all-DoD one-stop Modeling
and Simulation environment shop. It permits users to search for environmental
data by providing keywords, regions of interest, time and/or latitude and
longitude information. Covers atmosphere, oceans, terrain and space. Located
at http://mel.dmso.mil/.
Federation
of American Scientists -- Space Policy Project
This non-governmental site specializes
in hard-to-find information on U.S., international and military space
programs and high technology intelligence programs. It includes a
growing gallery of imagery of sites of intelligence interest worldwide.
A unique resource located at http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program.
Fleet
Numerical and Oceanography Center
Located in Monterey, California this
is the U.S. Navy's primary processing center for DMSP weather satellite
data. URLs include http://152.80.56.203/index.html and http://www.fnoc.navy.mil.
Fort
Monmouth - C4I Electronic Warfare and Sensor Team
This is a key U.S. Army Earth Sensing
development testing facility, encompassing GPS, ground station reception
and integration of many forms of battlefield and theater-level intelligence.
Though primarily based in New Jersey, Ft. Monmouth maintains facilities
at Vint Hill Garrison in Warrenton, Virginia, Ft. Huachuca, Arizona and
at the Pentagon. The web site, http://cecom5.monmouth.army.mil/intranet/
projbk98.nsf, includes an alphabetic index to unclassified activities.
Global
Positioning System (GPS) Time Series
This technological 'ticker' at the
heart of the GPS system (http://sideshow.jpl.nasa. gov/mbh/series.html).
The site is one of a series of military GPS-related URLs including the
NAVSTAR GPS Joint Programs Office at Los Angeles AFB (http://ww.laafb.af.mil/cz/homepage/gpshome.html),
Coast Guard Navigation Center (http://www.navcen.uscg.mil), Naval Observatory
GPS web page (http://tycho.usno.
navy.mil/gps.html) and the Naval R&D
Center for GPS - NRaD (http://bluefish.
nosc.mil/gps.html.
Guardian
The Official magazine of the USAF Space
Command.
Intelligence
Community Advanced Technology Demonstration Network
A joint ARPA, DISA and DIA project
for developing very high speed, secure networks. The URL is http://www.atd.
net/atdnet.html
Intelligence
Community Gateway
Intended as a public relations Home
page for the Office of the Director of Central Intelligence. The URL for
the site is http://www.odci.gov/ic.
International
GPS Service for Geodynamics
This site, http://IGSCB.JPL.NASA.GOV,
is useful for researchers who use satellites in the US defense department's
global positioning system (GPS) for studies in geodynamics. IGS archives
and distributes GPS observation data concerning IGS tracking stations and
GPS satellite tracking station clock information. The project maintains
a network of about 50 globally distributed permanent tracking stations.
It also has Data Centers, Analysis Centers and a Central Bureau for information
distribution. The bureau maintains Hot Links with allied organizations
in Europe, Canada and the US.
Johns
Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory -- Ocean Remote Sensing
Group.
The Ocean Remote Sensing Group specializes
in civilian and military applications of remote sensing technology in the
marine environment. Http://fermi.jhuapl.edu also provides hot links to
related sites. The APL is also a major military contractor for all
aspects of warheads, fusing and missiles as well as some aspects of earth
observation satellite launch telemetry and command and control.
John Hopkins Road
Laurel, Maryland 20723-6099
tel: +1 301
953-5711 or +1 410953-5711
URL: http://www.jhuapl.edu
Joint
Military Intelligence Program (JMIP)
In 1995 the outgoing CIA director John
Deutch created the Joint Military Intelligence Program (JMIP), which is
intended to consolidate budget oversight, military intelligence collection
and analysis, as well as reconnaissance programs. JMIP provides an
umbrella for Defense Cryptological Program (DCP), Defense Imagery Program
(DIP), Defense Mapping, Charting and Geodesy Program (DMCGP), Defense General
Intelligence and Applications Program (DGIAP), which consists of
five sub-programs, each of which was formerly funded in the TIARA aggregation:
JMIP operates under the Assistant Secretary for Defense for C3I.
- Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Program (DARP)
- Defense Intelligence Counterdrug Program (DICP)
- Defense Intelligence Agency's Tactical Program (DIATP)
- Defense Space Reconnaissance Program (DSRP)
- Defense Intelligence Special Technology Program (DISTP).
JSTARS - Joint Surveillance Target Attack
Kuwait
Data Archive
This is a prototype data integration
project sponsored by the US Department of Energy, Defense Nuclear Agency,
EPA, NOAA, etc. It includes land surface observation and aircraft data.
Located at URL http://www.atd.ucar.edu/kuwait/kuda_title.html. Useful for
studying the effects of Kuwaiti oil fires on the environment. For information
contact: kudastaff@chinook.atd. ucar.edu or write to the following address:
Kuwait
Data Archive
National
Center for Atmospheric Research
ATD/RAF
P.O.
Box 3000
Boulder,
CO 80307, USA
Tel:
+1-303-497-1029
+1-303-497-1058
Fax: +1-303-497-1092
LANL
Los Almos National Laboratory
PO box 1663
Los Almos, NM 87545
Lewis
Technical Library Acronym and Abbreviation Server.
A search engine for acronyms located
at http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/index. It will also automatically
display related acronyms.
Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory
(Skunk Works)
Officially a private enterprise, but
exclusively engaged in military aerospace and reconnaissance work, most
of it classified. The lab is located at:
Organization 92-80, Building 205Marine Corps WWW Gateway
3252 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1187
415-424-2146
Military and Intelligence Gateways -- Private Sector Services
Mojave
Desert Ecosystem Program
DoD regards the Mojave Desert as strategically
important for mission readiness. The Mojave Desert Ecosystem Program (MDEP)
was initiated to test fusion of data layers in an unusually sophisticated
ecosystem-wide Geographic Information System (GIS). The site, http://mojave.army.mil,
has clickable icons to geospatial data, Mojave server sites and a bibliography.
Missile
Defense and Space Technology Center (SSDC Program)
Located at Maxwell AFB, this is the
Army's program office for missile defense. The web site is collocated
with that of the Army Space and Strategic Services Command.
(http://www.ssdc.army.mil). For the missile defense and space technology
center see also:
Box 1500
Huntsville,
Alabama 35807-3801 or
106 Wynn Drive
Huntsville,
Alabama 35805-1990
National
Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)
Provides some unclassified information
about mapping, topography, imagery, imagery intelligence and geospatial
data. The NIMA Geodesy and Geophysics department home page contains information
about satellites and geophysics. Http://162.214.2.59/
nimahome.html.
4600 Sangamore Road
Bethesda, MD 20816-5003
tel:
+1 (301) 227-3089
email: nima_news@nima.mil
NIMA
Digital Chart of the World
This is also known as the Vector Smart
Map (Vmap) Level 0. The digital map provides 1:1,000,000 scale vector
information worldwide with thematic layers for road and rail networks,
river systems, utilities (electric and gas pipelines), international boundaries,
etc. Elevation data is at 1000 foot intervals with some 500 and 250
supplements. Available on four CD-ROMs that traditionally have retailed
for about $200 USD from USGS Open FIle Section, Box 25286, Denver, CO
80255.
NIMA
Digital Terrain Elevation Data Level 0 (DTED0)
Digital topographic data compiled at
approximately 100 meter post spacing (2 arc seconds). DTED® Level
0 elevation post spacing is 30 arc second (nominally one kilometer). DTED0
data outside the United States is classified; 3 arc second data is nevertheless
widely available for the U.S. and most industrialized nations from a variety
of legitimate sources. DTED Level 1 is restricted to U.S. Department
of Defense and military contractors; but appeals for civilian access can
be made to:
NIA HQ Releases Officer
Attn: ACT, MSA-13
NIMA
8613 Lee Highway
Fairfax, Virginia, 22031
USA
For background information see: http://www.nima.mil/publications/guides/dtf/dted1.html.
NIMA's
GEOnet Names Server
This site in by far the best free utility
for identifying place names, latitude and longitude, geographical features
and similar information for locations outside the United States.
National
Data Center, U.S. -- Nuclear Test Ban Monitoring
The US National Data Center provides
monitoring and technical support for a Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
It serves as a gateway between the US and the International Data Center
for the exchange of geophysical data, primarily seismic data, which are
recorded by a global network of stations. Established at the Air Force
Technical Applications Center in Florida, the NDC's primary function is
to support US treaty monitoring and verification capabilities. The NDC
also provides universities and scientific organizations with readily accessible
high quality data with which to conduct basic and applied research. The
site is located at URL http://www.tt.aftac.gov/overview.html.
National
Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
The NRO designs, builds and operates
U.S. classified reconnaissance satellites. A DoD agency, the NRO
is officially staffed by DoD and CIA personnel. It is funded through the
National Reconnaissance Program, part of the National Foreign Intelligence
Program, but as a practical matter is heavily dependent on private sector
defense contractors. The NRO maintains a reading room for declassified
materials and imagery at Chantilly, VA, Tel: 703-808-5576. Appointments
are necessary.
NRO's occasional press releases are
available at http://www/nro.odci.gov/pressreleases/
prs_rel#.html, with the release number
substituted for the # symbol (e.g. /prs_rel14.html deals with the release
of declassified imagery.
National
Security Agency
Provides sketchy information about
the agency and its mission, the National Cryptographic Museum and related
public aspects of NSA via http://www.nsa.gov:8080.
Navy
WWW Gateway
Good general gateway to US Navy sites.
Located at http://www.navy.mil.
Naval
Meteorology and Oceanography Command
This site provides links to scores
of naval weather, mapping and earth observation sites.
Stennis Space Center
Bay St. Louis, MS 39529-5002
tel: +1 601-688-4726
Naval
Postgraduate School - Monterey, CA
The Navy's specialized postgraduate
program maintains sophisticated web pages on many topics pertaining to
earth sensing, including the Scientific Visualization Lab (http://www.nps.navy.mil/VisLab/home.html),
Space Systems Academic Group (http://www.sp.nps.navy.mil) and the Joint
C4I Academic Group (http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/c4i).
Naval
Center for Space Technology
Military space science division of
the Naval Research lab in Washington, DC.
Navy
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR)
This is the home page for the U.S.
Navy's command-level organization for space-based communications, earth
observation and space warfare activities.
Nevada
Test Site
This site contains the Nevada Test
Site, its assets, resources, technologies and historical information.
It also contains a photo library.
Office
of Naval Intelligence
This ostensibly civilian site opens
to home pages maintained by the Office of Naval Intelligence and the National
Maritime Intelligence Center. The site is reachable via http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/oni/org.htm.
Ordnance
and Explosives Mandatory Center of Expertise and Design
The center is focused on risks from
unexploded ordnance, land mine clean-up, and destruction of captured weapons
or rediscovered chemical weapons. It includes active support for
research into LIDAR ground sensing and earth penetrating detection technologies.
Phillips
Research Site - USAF
The lab announces its mission as "Revolutionary
Space Capabilities for the Warfighter." Its URL is http://http://www.vs.afrl.af.mil/.
Kirtland AFB
Albuquerque, NM 87117-5000
tel:
+1 505 846-0011
email: pa@commgate.kirtland.af.mil
Planet
Earth Home Page
This is the U.S. Navy's principal public
page for marine and earth sciences, meteorology and related fields that
involve satellite observation of the earth.
SNL
Sandia National Laboratory
PO Box 5800
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87158
TASC
This site focuses on the National Imagery
Transmission Format Standards program at TASC. A
major NIMA, NRO and Central Imagery Office contractors.
U.S.
Space Command (Spacecom)
This is the home page for the United
State's inter-service command level organization for space warfare strategy,
tactics and day-to-day interservice coordination. This site is collocated
with the U.S. Air Force Space Command - AFSPC (www.spacecom.af.mil/
HQAFSpc/index.htm), the Air Force's
own command-level organization for space warfare activities, including
earth observation and counter-observation strategies.
Ames Research Center
Aircraft Data FacilityArequipa Tracking Station
MS 240-6
1-415-604-6252Medium Altitude Missions Branch
MS 211-12
1-415-604-5336
EOSDIS
DAAC Project
NASA, NOAA and the U.S. Geological
Survey maintain relatively powerful and easy to use earth data indexing
and distribution centers, which are known as Distributed Active Archive
Centers (DAACs). Nine sites are now operating that focus on land features
and mapping, snow and ice, chemistry of the atmosphere (including pollution),
and related issues. The DAACs are accessible via http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov/daacpages/otherdaacs.html.See
imagery index section for details.
Earth
Observing System -- EOS
This site offers on-line access to
Earth Observing System's (EOS) Project Science Center.
NASA
Global Fire Monitoring
NASA and NOAA Missions for Monitoring
Global Fires. Different satellites provide observation and measurement
capabilities for monitoring different fire characteristics.
Global
Change Master Directory -- GCMD
GCMD is a free, on-line directory offering
relatively comprehensive information about earth science, environmental,
climate, and global change data holdings on the net. It is accessible via
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov.
Goddard
Institute for Space Studies
This address, http://www.giss.nasa.gov/
has a list of the best and most frequently accessed WXP weather images.
It links to Purdue University and Michigan State University, each with
many available weather images. This Home page is often accessed more easily
via the main NASA Home page.
Goddard
Space Flight Center AVHRR Imagery
One kilometer resolution, worldwide
imagery with special usefulness for studying vegetation, forest fires,
natural disasters and large-scale pollution.
GSFC
Land Imagery Sites
Several friends have recommended http://modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/,
then click on "related sites", and http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/ltp/ltp_related,
then click on "related sites" as useful NASA sources for land imagery.
"Interesting
Sites" in Earth Observation Services compiled by Dennis Chester
Dennis Chester of GSFC compiles and
posts an informal yet frequently useful list of '"interesting services"
related to earth observation and meteorology.
J-Pass
Real-Time Satellite Tracking from NASA
J-Pass is an easy to use NASA web site
that permits real-time tracking of more than five hundred satellites from
NASA, NOAA, U.S. Department of Defense agencies, Russia, Israel, Japan,
China and other countries. The latest version of J-Pass can handle ten
simultaneous real-time tracks. Observed satellites include those for communication,
weather, earth sensing, and other missions. The URL is http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/realtime/JPass.
Jet
Propulsion Laboratory
Operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
and NASA, this site, http://www.jpl.nasa.gov, includes numerous free software
utilities for satellite viewing, including an orbital tracking program.
JPL
Imaging Radar Home Page
The NASA/JPL Imaging Radar Home Page
includes information on imaging radar, data products, educational materials,
and software. A clickable map showing low-resolution images and links to
places to order imaging radar data from NASA and non-NASA missions is featured.
Images can also be accessed from http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/education.html,
a site linked to the home page which features a picture gallery and screening
room. The main site is located at http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov.
Landsat
Program
The Landsat Program is the longest
running enterprise for acquisition of imagery of the earth from space.
The instruments on the Landsat satellites have recorded millions of images,
which are archived in the United States and at Landsat receiving stations
around the world. Landsat data have been used extensively in agriculture
and geology, global change science, education and national security applications.
This site, http://geo.arc.nasa. gov/esd/esdstaff/landsat/landsat.html provides
an overview of the history and development of the program and links to
the USGS EROS Data Center archive as well as to the US Global Change Research
Program.
Lewis
Technical Library Acronym and Abbreviation Server.
A search engine for acronyms located
at http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/index. It will also automatically
display related acronyms.
NASA's
Commercial Remote Sensing Program
This site promotes commercial remote
sensing initiatives, market applications for remote sensing and GIS technologies,
and provides publications/articles. The URL for the site is http://crsp.ssc.nasa.gov.
NASA
Remote Sensing Public Access Center
The "Observatorium" is NASA's public
access WWW Home page for earth and space data. This site includes The Exhibit
Hall, which answers many K-12 level questions on the basics of remote sensing
and gives examples from fields such as archeology and geology. Sample images
are displayed on-line. Also at this site is Technology Park, which gives
somewhat more in-depth information on earth and space science, remote sensing,
and information technology. This information is located at http://www.observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/core.shtml.html.
NASA Press Releases Online
To subscribe send an email to majordomo@venus.hq.nasa.gov.
In the body of the message, type the following: subscribe press-release
your name.
NASA/NOAA
AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Reflectometer) Pathfinder Program
This site offers information on the
NASA/NOAA Pathfinder Program and the various Pathfinder projects. The site
is located at http://nsidc.org/NASA/POLAR_PATHFINDERS/. See also
http://mohawk.gsfc.nasa.gov/avhrr.
NASA-NOAA Near Real Time Weather
Data
This FTP site is accessible from 3
points of entry:
AmericaVisible light and IR hourly GMS-5 images in gif format (images may be enhanced), and in hdf format (raw, intended for research), can be found in the directory "pub/Weather/GMS-4". Resolution is 5 km, so images are 2-3 MB in size. The "pub/Weather/GOES-7" directory contains half-hourly visible light and IR GOES-7 images in gif and hdf formats, and the "pub/Weather/GOES-8" now contains GOES-8 images. Also available are 48-hour MPEGs.
Eastern America, Europe
Australia, New Zealand, Asia
NASA's
Recommended Images
NASA's public information officer at
GSFC recommends three sites as starting points for the study of NASA's
massive (and still widely dispersed) collections of earth observation imagery:
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html
http://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov
http://xtreme.gsfc.nasa.gov
Each is a "gallery", so to speak, rather
than an image index as such, yet each contains many public domain examples
of NASA imagery, some with interpretive descriptions. Good sites
for baseline data and educational examples.
NASA
Spacelink Educational Site
This site, designed for teachers and
students, provides files on everything from upcoming space shuttle flights
to UFOs. Congressional testimony and speeches by NASA officials, NASA news
releases, and status reports about current NASA missions are also found
here. The URL for the site is http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov.
NASA's
Space Mission Acronym List and Hyperlink Guide
This site is located at
http://ranier.oact.hq.nasa.gov/Sensors_page/Missionlinks.html.
NASA
Vegetation Canopy Lidar
The principal goal of the VCL mission
is penetrating and charting forest canopies to determine ground-level geology,
human habitation and events as well as three-dimensional structure
of the Earth. The site is located at http://essp.gsfc.nasa.gov/vcl/.
Remote
Sensing Thrust Office at NASA Langley Research Center
The Remote Sensing thrust at Langley
Research Center specializes in lasers, detectors, miniature sensors and
deployable telescopes. This site, http://aesd.larc.nasa.gov/C/CF/CF.html,
also lists current projects and provides hot links to related home pages.
Satellite Altimetry URLs
Key altimetry sources compiled by IMAGRS-L
readers include:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/announcements/announce_predict.html
http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov
http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov
Total
Ozone Mapping Spectrometer Home page --TOMS
The TOMS home page contains general
information on ozone, ozone satellite retrieval, and information about
Earth Prove/TOMS, Meteor-3, and Nimbus-7. Ozone movies and graphs are also
available via http://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov.
Visualization
of Remote Sensing Data
Visualization of Remote Sensing Data
(VRSD) is a showcase for imagery created by the Laboratory for Atmospheres
at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and by other groups.
National
Geodetic Survey
This site includes up-to-date National
Spatial Reference System (NSRS) information.
National
Geophysical Data Center
The National Geophysical Data Center
(NGDC) manages environmental data in such fields as solar-terrestrial physics
and solid earth geophysics. Each field operates a World Data Center (WDCA)
discipline center. The site is located at URL http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov.
NOAA National Geophysical Data CenterNOAA Data Set Catalog
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80303
303 497 6761
NOAA
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
Information about, and sample data
from NOAA's part in the inter-agency Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
(DMSP). DMSP is a two satellite constellation of near-polar orbiting, sun-synchronous
satellites monitoring meteorological, oceanographic and solar-terrestrial
physics environments. This site is available via URL http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html
or via ftp at ftp:ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/DMSP.
NOAA
Global Land One-km Base Elevation (GLOBE) Project
NOAA's gridded 1 km activity DEMs are
noteworthy for their quality control and uniformity of data presentation.
Located at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo or send a blank email message
to emglobe@ngdc.noaa.govto receive
electronic news releases. The GLOBE site includes links to many U.S.
and international DEM sources.
NOAA NESDIS
National Environmental Satellite and
Data Information Service
Federal Office Building 4, Room 2069
Suitland, MD 20233
tel: 301-763-7190
fax: 301-763-4011
NOAA
Geoscience Internet Locator
Good jumpstation for scores of geoscience
sites.
NOAA
Satellite Active Archive
NOAA's Satellite Active Archive is
a digital library of near-real-time and historical satellite data from
NOAA's polar-orbiting weather and environmental satellites. Currently,
AVHRR and TOVS data is available. The site is available at http://www.saa.noaa.gov
or via telnet at telnet:saa.noaa.gov.
NOAA/NASA
AVHRR Pathfinder Home page
This sits, http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov/sst,
includes data lists of currently available AVHRR Pathfinder products,
images dating from 1987-1990 as well as project descriptions.
NOAA - HAZMAT
Hazardous Materials Response and Assessment
Division
7600 Sand Point Way NE, BIN C15700
Seattle, WA 98115-0070
USA
tel:
1-206-526-6323
fax:
1-206-526-6329
email: galt@hazmat.noaa.gov
NOAA National Weather Service
Ron Gird, Satellite Program Leader
315 East West Highway, OM22
Silver Spring, MD 20910
USA
tel:
1-301-713-1867 x110
fax: 1-301-713-1520
email: ron.gird@noaa.gov
NOAA/NWS - National Center for Environmental
Prediction
Climate Prediction Center
c/o U.S. Department of Agriculture
14 & Independence Avenue, SW
Room 5844
Washington, DC 20250-0001
USA
tel:
1-202-720-7919
fax:
1-202-720-1455
NOAA Office of the Federal Coordinator
for Meteorology (OFCM)
8455 Colesville Road, Suite 1500
Silver Spring, MD 20910
USA
tel:
1-301-427-2002
fax:
1-301-427-2007
email: robert.dumont@noaa.gov
NOAA Office of Global Programs
1100 Wayne Street, Suite 1210
Silver Spring, MD 20910
USA
tel:
1-301-427-2089 x38
fax:
1-301-427-2082
email: stewart@ogp.noaa.gov
NOAA Office of Security
Mary Pittman, Emergency Specialist
1305 East West Highway, Room 5255
Silver Spring, MD 20190
USA
tel:
1-301-713-0954
fax:
1-301-713-0953
email: Mary.L.Pittman@noaa.gov
NOAA NESDIS
National Environmental Satellite and
Data Information Service
Federal Office Building 4, Room 2069
Suitland, MD 20233
tel: 301-763-7190
fax: 301-763-4011
NOAA NESDIS - National Climate
Data Center
151 Patton Avenue, Room 120
Ashville, NC 28701
USA
tel:
1-828-271-4478
fax:
1-828-271-4328
email: abasist@ncdc.noaa.gov
NOAA NESDIS - National Geophysical
Data Center
325 Braodway Street, RL-3, Room 159
Boulder, CO 80303
USA
tel:
1-303-497-6121
fax:
1-303-497-6513
email: cde@ngdc.noaa.gov
NOAA NESDIS - National Oceanographic
Data Center
Laboratory for Satellite Altimitry
1315 East West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
USA
tel:
1-301-713-2853
fax: 1-301-713-4598
email: rcheney@nodc.noaa.gov
NOAA NESDIS - National Oceanographic
Data Center
Office of International and Interagency
Affairs
1315 East West Highway, Room 3620
Silver Spring, MD 20910
USA
Satellite Altimetry URLs
Key altimetry sources compiled by IMAGRS-L
readers include:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/announcements/announce_predict.html
http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov
http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov
http://www.ifremer.fr/cersat/activite/ers/diff/e_softdo.htm
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