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ESA Kids
| Institution: | European Space Agency (ESA), Paris, France |
| Topics: | Information on space science and ESA Space Programmes |
| Intended for: | Kids and young students; teachers |
NASA for Kids
| Institution: | Center Operations Directorate, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL, USA |
| Topics: | Numerous web sites on science and technology, including earth and remote sensing |
| Intended for: | Kids |
For kids only
| Institution: | Earth Science Enterprise, NASA, USA |
| Topics: | Air, natural hazards, land and water, with links to specific web sites for kids |
| Intended for: | Kids and pre-college students |
ESA eduspace
| Institution: | European Space Agency (ESA), Paris, France |
| Topics: | The Web-site aims to give to the youth of Europe a portal to space applications and in particular to a wide-spread visibility of Earth Observation as co-ordinated by the European Space Agency (ESA) and its European and National Partners. The Web-site is being developed under the umbrella of EURISY and offers to teachers and students of secondary school in Europe means to bring Earth Observation into the classroom. Topics: Europe from space, global change, disaster monitoring, earth observation principles, image processing tools. |
| Intended for: | Students at secondary schools; teachers |
ESA Education
| Institution: | European Space Agency (ESA), Paris, France |
| Topics: | Presentation of projects and activities supported by ESA. |
| Intended for: | High school and university students; teachers |
Resources in Earth Observation 2000
| Institution: | Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) at CNES, Paris, France |
| Topics: | Case studies, data and information for education and developing countries |
| Intended for: | Students at all levels; teachers |
Watching Over Our Planet From Space
| Institution: | Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS), Ottawa (Ontario), Canada |
| Topics: | Introduction to remote sensing, twelve hands-on activities and a supplemental reading section, all rich with satellite imagery, photography and illustration. |
| Intended for: | Students 11 to 15 years of age. |
Earth Observatory
| Institution: | Earth Observatory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| Topics: | Websites on global biosphere, global energy budgets, natural hazards, ozone, volcanoes, global warming and others. Visit also The Carbon Cycle for a review, and an animation of the seawifs biosphere. |
| Intended for: | Highschool and university students; teachers |
The Earth Science Educator
| Institution: | Earth Science Directorate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| Topics: | Links to NASA educational resources |
| Intended for: | Students at all levels; teachers |
Scientific Visualization Studio
| Institution: | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| Topics: | Images and animations on various topics: urban rain, solar flares, coronal loops, solar X-rays, volcanic eruptions and ozone, snow and oceans on Mars, urbanization and sprawl, vegetation, tropical rainfall, Landsat images of international cities, and others. See also the List of Visualization. |
| Intended for: | Students at all levels; teachers |
Visible Earth
| Institution: | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| Topics: | A searchable directory of images, visualizations and animations of the Earth. |
| Intended for: | Students at all levels; teachers |
Giovanni
| Institution: | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| Topics: | "The GES-DISC Interactive Online Visualization ANd aNalysis Infrastructure (Giovanni) is the underlying infrastructure for a growing family of Web interfaces that allows users to analyze gridded data interactively online without having to download any data. Through Giovanni, users are invited to discover and explore our data using sophisticated analyses and visualizations." |
| Intended for: | Highschool and university students; teachers |
The Remote Sensing Tutorial
| Institution: | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| Topics: | "What you can learn from sensors on spacecraft that look inward at the earth and outward at the planets, the galaxies and, going back in time, the cosmos." Author: Dr. Nicholas Short |
| Intended for: | Highschool and university students, educators |
Institute on Climate and Planets
| Institution: | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| Topics: | The Institute on Climate and Planets is a research, science education, and minority outreach program at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The site includes learning modules on clouds, the effect of sun's energy on the ocean and atmosphere, the greenhouse effect, and related computer models and data sets. |
| Intended for: | Pre-college and undergraduate students and their teachers. |
Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
| Institution: | NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA |
| Topics: | Collection of photographs taken by astronauts since 1961. |
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NASA Quest
| Institution: | NASA AMES Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA |
| Topics: | Links to NASA educational resources, lesson plans for home and classroom use. |
| Intended for: | Pre-college students; teachers |
Teaching Earth Science
| Institution: | Earth Science Enterprise, NASA, USA |
| Topics: | Links to science education programs and resources. |
| Intended for: | Teachers of elementary through university levels, college and university students. |
Fundamentals of Remote Sensing Tutorial
| Institution: | Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS), Ottawa (Ontario), Canada |
| Topics: | Tutorial on remote sensing technology and its applications. Physics, environmental sciences, mathematics, computer sciences and geography. Interactive module. |
| Intended for: | Senior high school or early university level; physics teachers |
Radar and Stereoscopy Tutorial
| Institution: | Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS), Ottawa (Ontario), Canada |
| Topics: | six sections on 3-D visual ability and methods to display 3-D information, stereo and radar basics, description of RADARSAT and its ability to acquire data specifically for stereo usage, examples of RADARSAT and other remotely sensed data. Authors: Dr. Thierry Toutin and Corinna Vester. |
| Intended for: | Senior high school or early university level; physics teachers |
Digital Images & Digital Analysis Techniques
| Institution: | Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS), Ottawa (Ontario), Canada |
| Topics: | Digital multispectral image analysis. Basic analysis procedures used in the study of satellite images for a variety of earth resources applications. Author: Tom Alföldi. |
| Intended for: | University level; physics teachers |
Remote Sensing using Microwaves
| Institution: | Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden |
| Topics: | Tutorial on radar and microwave remote sensing. Author: Jan Askne |
| Intended for: | University students and educators |
Center for Earth and Space Science Education (CESSE)
| Institution: | TERC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Topics: | Links to earth observation, astrobiology, hands-on universe and other remote sensing-related websites. |
| Intended for: | Pre-college students; teachers |
Remote Sensing Resources
| Institution: | Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, USA |
| Topics: | Focus on practical aspects of accessing, visualizing, and processing remotely sensed data. |
| Intended for: | "For those who are interested in learning about working with satellite imagery. Although documents focus on issues of biodiversity conservation, they are applicable to a broad range of applications." |
Remote Sensing Fundamentals
| Institution: | School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA |
| Topics: | Lecture notes on photometry, the atmosphere, measuring principles, instrumentation and image processing. Author: William Philpot. |
| Intended for: | University students |
Digital Image Processing
| Institution: | School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA |
| Topics: | Lecture notes on imaging systems, radiometric and geometric corrections, Fourier Transform, feature extraction, classification, error analysis, hyperspectral measurements and atmospheric correction. Author: William Philpot. |
| Intended for: | University students |
The ITC Educational Programs
| Institution: | International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands |
| Topics: | Multidisciplinary approach to geo-informatics, land resource surveys, urban sciences and earth and weather resource surveys, with emphasis on remote sensing and geographical information systems. Programmes leading to PhD, MSc and PM degrees, to diploma and certificate courses. |
| Intended for: | The ITC educational system is international and intended primarily for mid-career professionals and scientists from development countries. Increasingly, however, professionals from countries in Eastern and Western Europe and other industrialized countries are registering in order to specialise in ITC's scientific fields. |
The Implementation and Effectiveness of GIS Technology and Methods in Secondary Education
| Institution: | U.S. Geological Survey, Rocky Mountain Mapping Center, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. |
| Topics: | Author: Joseph Kerski, PhD Dissertation |
| Intended for: | Teachers, university students |
Laser Scanner
| Institution: | GeoLas Consulting, Poing near Munich, Germany |
| Themen: | Principle and application of airborne laser scanning for topographic mapping. Many links to other institutions, which make use of the method. |
| Intended for: | all users. |
WWW Resources for Earth System Science Education
| Institution: | Earth Systems Science Online ESSE, Universities Space Research Association USRA, U.S.A. |
| Topics: | Collection of links to Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System websites |
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Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing
| Institution: | Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, U.S.A. |
| Topics: | Collection of image data from Landsat, MODIS and Sea WiFS |
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Earth and Moon Viewer
| Institution: | Fourmilab Switzerland. Author: John Walker. |
| Topics: | Map of the Earth showing actual day and night regions, or view from the Sun, Moon, from satellite orbits. Same for the Moon. Links to related web sites. |
| Intended for: | Students at all levels; teachers |
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Earth Observatory: Land
| Institution: | Earth Observatory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| Topics: | Datasets on fires, precipitation, landcover classification, snow and ice cover, surface temperature. Online publications. Visit also The Carbon Cycle for a review, and an animation of the seawifs biosphere. |
| Intended for: | Highschool and university students; teachers |
The Colors of Life
| Institution: | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| Topics: | Satellite images on ocean/land biosphere. Carbon cycle, SeaWiFS and Modis sensor description, optical data processing and interpretation. |
| Intended for: | Highschool and university students; teachers |
Belgium viewed from space
| Institution: | Université de Liège, Faculté des Sciences, Département de Géomatique, Liège, Belgium |
| Topics: | Download a 6 km x 6 km (300 x 300 pixels) image corresponding to pixels size of 20 m on the ground. A list of 3624 localities gives a direct access to the desired area. Demo collection of SPOT, Kosmos and Ikonos images. |
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Virtual Library: Forestry Mapping, GIS and Remote Sensing
| Institution: | Virtual Library: Forestry, The Finnish Forest Research Institute (Metla), Finland |
| Topics: | Interactive forest maps, software for forest inventories, Global Positioning System (GPS) in forestry, disaster monitoring, and other topics. |
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Earth Observatory: Oceans
| Institution: | Earth Observatory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| Topics: | Datasets on sea surface temperature, biosphere, chlorophyll distributions. Online publications. Visit also The Carbon Cycle for a review, and an animation of the seawifs biosphere. |
| Intended for: | Highschool and university students; teachers |
Ocean Color Time-Series Online Visualization and Analysis
| Institution: | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| Topics: | "Based on the GES-DISC Interactive Online Visualization and ANalysis Infrastructure (Giovanni) which was developed by the GES DISC DAAC to provide users with an easy-to-use, Web-based interface for the visualization and analysis of the Earth Science data." |
| Intended for: | Highschool and university students; teachers |
The SeaWiFS Project
| Institution: | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| Topics: | SeaWiFS Project Homepage with links to spacecraft technology information, ocean color, data processing and data sets, and teacher's resources. See also Monitoring the Earth from Space with SeaWiFS for a detailed presentation for students, SeaWiFS Data Reprocessing for latest results of re-calibration procedures, and Earth Obseration Movie Studio for mpg animations of various parameters that can be observed from space. Satellite launch in 1997. |
| Intended for: | Students at all levels; teachers |
The Gulf Stream Voyage
| Institution: | Stevens Institute of Technology, Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE), Hoboken, NJ, USA | |
| Topics: | Tutorial on science and history of the Gulf Stream, atmosphere and ocean dynamics, ocean optics, thermal infrared, real time data links, references, worksheets. | |
| Intended for: | Highschool students; teachers |
The Colors of Life
| Institution: | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| Topics: | Satellite images on ocean/land biosphere. Carbon cycle, SeaWiFS and Modis sensor description, optical data processing and interpretation. |
| Intended for: | Highschool and university students; teachers |
Latest ice and weather info
| Institution: | Danish Center for Remote Sensing (DCRS), Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark |
| Topics: | Real-time ice and weather data of the North Atlantic, with links to other sources for different areas |
| Intended for: | all users |
The tropical and subtropical ocean viewed by ERS SAR
| Institution: | Remote Sensing Group, Institute of Oceanography, University of Hamburg, Germany |
| Topics: | Web site with exemplary ERS SAR images acquired over tropical and subtropical ocean areas showing typical sea surface manifestations of oceanic and atmospheric phenomena, and information on the sensing principles and on oceanic phenomena which can be investigated with SAR |
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Airborne Laser Bathymetry
| Institution: | EARSeL eProceedings |
| Topics: | Publication with detailed description of airborne lidar bathymetry, its method and accuracy, and applications. Author: Gary C. Guenther, NOAA, USA. |
| Intended for: | Highschool and university students; teachers. |
Ocean Remote Sensing Using Lasers
| Institution: | EARSeL European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories |
| Topics: | Powerpoint tutorial (7.5 MB) from the 24th EARSeL Symposium in 2004 (without text explanations, with references), on methods and applications of oceanic lidar. Author: Rainer Reuter, University of Oldenburg, Germany. |
| Intended for: | Highschool and university students; teachers. |
Remote Sensing Handbook for Tropical Coastal Management
| Institution: | UNESCO, Paris, France; UK Department for International Development (DFID), London, UK; |
| Topics: | Detailed evaluation of what can realistically be achieved by remote sensing in an operational coastal management context. Authors: Edmund P. Green, Peter J. Mumby, Alasdair J. Edwards and Christopher D. Clark |
| Intended for: | Users of the technology in government, NGOs, research institutes, universities and consulting who are involved in managing the coastal resources of tropical nations to ensure sustainable and wise use. |
Internet Resources on Ocean Remote Sensing Sensors, Data, Education and Ocean Models
| Institution: | GOOS, The Global Ocean Observing System |
| Topics: | Overview of existing satellite sensors and measured parameters; detailed collection of links to web sites on ocean remote sensing data, products and software, on education, and on ocean models. Authors: Harald Sodemann and Thorkild Aarup |
| Intended for: | Highschool and university students; teachers. |
Bilko: Training modules in coastal and marine remote sensing
| Institution: | UNESCO, Paris, France |
| Topics: | Bilko is a complete system for learning and teaching remote sensing image analysis skills. Current lessons teach the application of remote sensing to oceanography and coastal management, but the PC-based Bilko software may be used to analyse any image in an appropriate format. Since the start in 1987, users in over 500 institutions in over 100 countries world wide have registered to download Bilko teaching materials. |
| Intended for: | Students and teachers at university level, coastal and marine scientist without specialist remote sensing expertise. |
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Oceanography
| Institution: | The School of Mathematics, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, UK |
| Topics: | Links to topics in oceanography, including Remote Sensing |
| Intended for: | all users |
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Global Warming kids site
| Institution: | United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), USA |
| Topics: | Global warming, climate and weather, greenhouse effect and more. |
| Intended for: | Kids |
ESA Meteosat Second Generation
| Institution: | European Space Agency, Paris, France. |
| Topics: | Meteorology course materials on: Weather on Earth, weather systems, clouds, fronts, weather forecast; downloadable pdf files. Teachers may order the weather classroom toolkit, CD-ROM, and video tape by mail or fax. |
| Intended for: | Teachers of junior and intermediate secondary schools. |
Global Warming
| Institution: | United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), USA |
| Topics: | Database for educators and outreach professionals for use in presentations and classroom activities on climate change science, potential impacts, and mitigation options. Directory to some of the education and outreach resources that are available on the site. |
| Intended for: | Educators of all school levels. |
Interactive courseware on physical concepts and meteorological applications
| Institution: | Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| Topics: | Interactive curriculum modules on physics, astronomy and meteorology. Author: Samuel Borenstein, York College, USA |
| Intended for: | Instructors and students of introductory meteorology courses. |
Earth Observatory: Atmosphere
| Institution: | Earth Observatory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| Topics: | Datasets on UV radiation exposure, ozone, aerosols, precipitation and clouds. Online publications. |
| Intended for: | Highschool and university students; teachers. |
Atmosphere Data and Information Services Center
| Institution: | Distributed Active Archive Center(DAAC) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| Topics: | Information on TOVS data, Data Assimilation Office (DAO) products and the CPC/ACDB 4D dataset, and other related data. Software for satellite data processing. Educational resources links to data acquisition and application, starter kits, online analysis and tutorial. |
| Intended for: | Highschool and university students; teachers. |
Precipitation Data and Information Services Center
| Institution: | Distributed Active Archive Center(DAAC) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| Topics: | Information on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite to monitor tropical and subtropical precipitation and to estimate its associated latent heating. |
| Intended for: | Highschool and university students; teachers. |
Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment
| Institution: | Atmosphere, Climate & Environment Information Progamme, Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. |
| Topics | Acid rain, air quality, climate and climate change, sustainability, global warming, ozone, waether; references and further reading. |
| Intended for: | Highschool and university students; teachers. |
Latest ice and weather info
| Institution: | Danish Center for Remote Sensing (DCRS), Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark |
| Topics: | Real-time ice and weather data of the North Atlantic, with links to other sources for different areas |
| Intended for: | all users |
IPCC Climate Change Assessment Reports
| Institution: | Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC), Geneva, Switzerland |
| Topics: | The state of knowledge of climate change. |
| Intended for: | all users |
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