Online Global Satellite Image and Atlas

Online Global Satellite Image and Atlas

Geography 579, Spring 2007

Joy Suh

Good Places to Start (Free Satellite Data)

**The Global Land Cover Facility (University of Maryland):
Georeferenced. Provides access to IKONOS, Landsat TM/ETM, MODIS, AVHRR, and SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission) image data (coverage: International)

**USGS EROS Seamless Data Distribution System:
View and download data for Othoimages (BLM Otho, LANDSAT7, LANDSAT MOSAIC). Click on "International."

USGS International Program:
Collection of data dissemination servers that provide access to satellite images and data, aerial photographs, and maps such as EarthExplore, Earthshops, Global Land 1-KM AVHRR Project, and UNEP/GRID, etc.

**Geography Network (ESRI):
Provides access to a large collection of geospatial data from many of the world's leading data publishers.

**Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, Geodata Information Source (Univ. of Iowa):
Provides extensive links to data sites by topics such as Remotely Sensed Data and Satellite Imagery.

**CIESIN (Center for International Earth Science Information Network): Provides downloadable data by subject including remote sensing. Especially good source for Urban Landsat and Urban Remote Sensing images.

**GIS Data Depot : Provides extensive downloadable GIS data by country. Coverage: International. Some are free and some are fee-based.

Earth Observing System Data Gateway (NASA):
Best place to get data for LANDSAT7-ETM+ and other environmental data by topics such as air quality, clouds, vegetation, and snow, etc. You can view the data through GLOVIS (http://glovis.usgs.gov), which is an image viewer developed by USGS.

Earth Obervation Group (National Geophysical Data Center):
Provides Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Data.

NASA's Global Hydrology and Climate Center:
Provides interactive Global Geostationary Weather Satellite images.

ASTER(Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer):
Offers detailed maps of land surface temperature, reflectance and elevation. Link to Japan's Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center (ERSDAC).

SPOT Vegetation:
Offers high quality of remote sensing image of vegetation cycle for the entire Earth ever day every day.

AFRICOVER:
A digital georeferenced database on land-cover, and a geographic referential (geodesy, topography, roads, hydrography) at a 1:250,000 / 1:200,000 scale for the whole Africa and online Africa Atlas. Developed jointly by NASA, the Dept of Geography of the University of Maryland, and the Dept of Environmental Sciences of the University of Virginia.

GEO-3 Data Portal (UNEP): Extensive, global environmental and human data (Freshwater, Population, Forest, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, and Health).

Digital Chart of the World by ESRI (via Penn State Univ.)
National boundaries and layers of different countries (Arc/Info export format) at 1:1 million scale. Coverage: International.

Global Change Master Directory (NASA):
A directory of Earth Science Data and Service. Some data online; other data to order. Extensive links to earth science data sites. Coverage: International.

Satellite Image Browser (jpg or gif images)

USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis):
An image viewer developed by USGS to display all available images form USGS Landsat data collection as well as ASTER, MODIS< and EO-1. and to display selected satellite images.
NASA World Wind:
An open source software developed by NASA to display LANDSAT7, SRTM, MODIS, NASASVS, and etc.
TerraFly:
Developed as an end-user tool by the NASA Regional Application Centers (RAC) to diplay satellite and aerial data and image from SpaceImaging (the IKONOS Satellite), SPOT image, OrbImage, and USGS.
Google Earth or Googe Pro:
View Satellite image including 3D images for the whole world and visualization of other data for overview.
MSN Virtual Earth (http://local.live.com)

Worth a Look (Commercial)

Terraserver.com: online Digital Orthophotos and Satellite Image. Coverage: International.
WebGIS: Free terrain data for worldwide and DLG.
Ikonos Satellite Image: 2D/3D images. Coverage: International.
EUIMAGE : Landsat, Envisat, Aster, and other NOAA data available for purchase
CARTERRA/Space Imaging: Earthquake, Hurricane Katrina, IKONOS image
EUROMAP : offers IRS (Indian Remote Sensing) Satellite data
SPOT SIRIUS Catalogue : free registration to browse online SPOT images.

Online Atlas or Map Sites.

**Map Machine (National Geographic): View online atlas by selecting roadmap, satellite, physical (topo), and more thematic maps (Coverage: International).

Perry-Castanede Library: An online large collection of maps on a number of themes.

Geography.about.com: Access to political boundary maps and large Shaded Relief Maps listed by country names.

**World Atlas (Encarta): Interactive Online Atalas of the world.

GMU Library Digital Data Collection (CD-ROM): Most of them are in Govenment Documents, Fenwick Library

ESRI Data & Maps CD (2001-2005): World satellite color relief Image. Administrative and basic boundaries of infrastructure data such as river, road, and drainage for World, Europe, Canada, Mexico, U.S, South America (in governmetn documents office)
**Global GIS database (USGS): Digital Atlas of Central and South America, Africa, South Pacific, and South Asia (1:1 million scale): comprehensive database covering wide variety subject-base map, census/political boundaries, transportation, topography, land use, climate, hydrography, and vegetation. Vector and Raster format.(Govdoc: I 19.121:62-A, B,C,D). Digital Atlas of North Eurasia, Europe andNorth America (Johnson Center CD-ROM: G 3301.A25 2003 G 56)
**Global GIS (USGS): Global Coverage of Digital Atlas (Johnson Center DVD: G3201 A 25 2003 G56)-1:1 million scale.
Map showing geology, oil, and gas fields,and geologic provinces of AFRICA (USGS open file report, 97-470-A), Caribbean Region (USGS Open file report, 97-470-K), Arabian Peninsula (USGS Open file report, 97-470-k), Iran( USGS Open file report, 97-470H) South Asia (USGS Open file report, 97-470 C), Soviet Union (USGS open file report, 97-470-E), Europe including Turkey (USGS open file report, 97-470-I).
NOAA environmental buoy data: meteorological and oceanographic data (Govdoc:C55.297:B89/DISC1-7/CD).
NOAA KLM users guide: describe the spacecraft characteristics, orbital consideration, sensor package, real-time data system for local users. NOAA-K through NOAA-M polar orbiter series of satellites (Govdoc: C55-281/2-2:IM1/2/CD).
NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Climate Data: data containing one by one-degree gridded files with many parameters, most of which are climate-related research (for global warming and vegetation database) (Govdoc:C55.54:P27/CD).
NOAA Weather Charts: data for surface and upper air weather charts including initial forecasts (Govdoc: C 55.281/2-5).
Preliminary Digital geologic Map database for Honduras
(USGS open file report; 98-774) (Govdoc: I19.76:98-774)
Digital Geologic Map database forBangladesh (USGS open file report, 97-470-H): 1:500, 000 scale. ArcView and ArcInfo export files (Govdoc: I19.76:97-470H)

Country Atlases and Tourism Guide: some are located in the Fenwick Reference Map Collection. Please search the GMU online catalog or search National Geographic Website.

International Topographic Maps in print: USGS Library, Reston VA, Alexandria Digital Project, Library of Congress,

UC Berkeley Library (Digital Topographic Map Sets at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/topo.html, or try GeoMart.

Other Maps: Aeronautical Maps (DMA) for selected regions and cities. World Political Maps (CIS), N & S America, Europe, Asia, and Africa Wall Maps (Shelved in the cabinet called World Cities and World Regions) in the government documents unit, Fenwick Library.

** You must see these sites.