Remote Sensing Projects and Research
African METEOSAT ProjectProject that utilized METEOSAT data to create an automated system of deriving meteorological parameters. These parameters will be linked to knowledge of the malarial parasite, and its vector (primarily the Mosquito), so that real-time data input will provide a means of predicting malarial hotspots.
Application of Space Technology to Environmental Aspects of Surface Mining
A surface mining decision support system developed by researchers in Greece and Spain.
Applied Hyperspectral Research
Examples and outlines of NASA-GSFC research in the hyperspectral realm.
Beach Mapping Project - NASA/NOAA
Mapping of coastlines using the Airborne Topographic Mapper (a LIDAR-based system).
Caddo Lake Project
The Caddo Lake Ramsar wetland ecosystem is a large, shallow, cypress-dominated wetland on the Texas-Louisiana border in the south central region of the United States. Caddo Lake lies 180km east of Dallas, Texas. It is noted for its high biodiversity. Various imagery and photography data sets available.
Characterization, Monitoring & Sensor Technology Crosscutting Program
DOE-sponsored project that applies unique expertise and innovative solutions for environmental characterization and monitoring problems to support the main DOE focus areas, and to help accomplish safe and cost-effective closure of 80% of DOE sites by 2006 and more challenging sites by 2030.
Columbia-Utrecht Reflectance and Texture Database
Researchers at Columbia University and Utrecht University have collaborated in an extensive investigation of the visual appearance of real-world surfaces.
Desert Storm & Desert Shield Imagery - FAS
Pretty cool stuff that includes imagery and photography of a number of US military targets.
Earthrise
Earthrise is a graphical front end to a large database of photos of the Earth from Space. Space shuttle photography by astronauts.
ESRI Conservation Program: Remote Sensing Emphasis
Links to remote sensing data sets and programs of interest.
Gap Analysis Project
The mission of the Gap Analysis Program (GAP) is to provide regional assessments of the conservation status of native vertebrate species and natural land cover types and to facilitate the application of this information to land management activities.
Geology of the White Tank Mountains, Arizona
Several types of remote sensing imagery were used to aid in the geologic mapping of the White Tank Mountains. Imagery from the Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner (TIMS), and the NS001 instrument, allowed the investigators to view the field area in the thermal infrared and in the visible to near-infrared, respectively.
Global Forest Fire Watch
An example of a Global Forest Fire Watch System that provides early warning, monitoring, and assessment of wildfires.
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) was launched on April 21st 1995 on board the second European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-2). This instrument can measure a range of atmospheric trace constituents, with the emphasis on global ozone distributions.
Global Seafloor Topography from Satellite Altimetry
Mapping of the global ocean floor with remote sensing technology. A NOAA/NGDC-sponsored project.
Grapevine Remote sensing Analysis of Phylloxera Early Stress (GRAPES)
During 1993-1995, NASA Ames Research Center collaborated with industry and university partners to develop and transfer the use of remote sensing and associated computerized technologies as a tool for vineyard managers to use in addressing the phylloxera problem.
Hyperspectral Bi-Directional Reflectance Project
Interesting research project looking at BRFs in hyperspectral data.
Imagery Format Specifications
Descriptions of different imagery formats provided by ImageLinks.
Individual Tree Crown Detection
From high spatial resolution (30-100 cm/pixel) aerial and satellite multispectral images, to develop procedures, methods, and systems to: isolate individual tree crowns (ITC) from each other and from the background vegetation; delineate precisely their crown boundaries; identify their species; and finally, if needed, regroup them into forest stands or environmental strata.
Kuwait Data Archive - UCAR
Site includes low-resolution imagery of Kuwait during Gulf War.
Mapping Deciduous Forests in Southern New England - Univ. of Massachusetts
The Gap Analysis Program in New England is using this video technology in conjunction with the hyperclustered, multi-temporal Landsat TM imagery distributed through the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics program to produce a vegetation map of southern New England.
Monitoring of Forest Fires in Boreal Stands with AVHRR (ERIM-International)
Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) composite image data, produced from AVHRR data collected in 1990, were evaluated for locating and mapping the areal extent of wildfires in the boreal forests of Alaska during that year.
Mountain Gorilla Protection Project (Rutgers Univ.)
The Mountain Gorilla Protection Project is a collaboration between H. Dieter Steklis of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Dr. Scott Madry from Rutgers University. The purpose of this project is to provide a digitized database of the mountain gorilla habitat. The database will include layers of information that contain vegetation patterns, gorilla ranging and human use of gorilla habitat.
National Incident Communications / Infrared Operations
The NIC/IRO is responsible for providing emergency communications support and aerial infrared sensing operations to all-risk incidents. Their major focus is wildland fire suppression, but equipment and personnel have been utilized on hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, oil spills, and other man-made or natural disasters that require Federal assistance.
Natural Disaster Reference Database
NDRD is a bibliographic database on research, programs, and results which relate to the use of satellite remote sensing for disaster mitgation.
Satellite Monitoring of Indonesia's Wildfires
Satellite images show smoke and fire spreading throughout this region of SE Asia. AVHRR imagery primarily used.
Parametric Geocoding Application
The major goals of this project are: development of parametric geocoding algorithms for airborne scanner data; implementation and user interfacing of the algorithms for common sensors; and creation of an environment for synchronization and recalibration of auxiliary data.
Planet Earth
The Department of Space Physics and Astronomy at Rice University has created the first online, up-to-date, digital museum accessible to the general public, by constructing six interactive displays of real-time earth and space science data, developed and tested at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and now available for other museums and schools around the country.
Public Connection
"Public Connection" is an off-shoot of Planet Earth (above) and provides interactive real-time displays of real-time earth and space science data for libraries and museums.
Satellite Imaging: Exploring the Earth from Space
Enhancing satellite and shuttle images from a photographic view point. Interesting site with some suggestions about image enhancements.
Sea & Space
An educational venture by the European Space Agency to merge remote sensing (RADAR) and oceanography for teaching science.
Studying the Human Dimension of Global Environmental Change
The CIESIN guide that helps you find selected key documents and data sets vital to understanding the use of satellite remote sensing to study the human dimensions of global environmental change.
Sun Calculator
Calculates the position of the Sun in the sky when position of observer and time are inputs. Sun rise and set times are also calculated.
Sun's Information and Sight Reduction
A nice JAVA utility to calculate several of the Sun's aspects for radiometric correction and calibration.
Terra Web
USGS site that shows examples of different remote sensing projects. A nice site to visit for getting an understanding of current USGS directions in remote sensing.
TerrainData
MRJ Technology Solutions, Inc. and NASA have produced a Digital Terrain Features (DTF) product that is a combination of vector and raster GIS layers which describe terrain features. The data set serves as input for a variety of defense and environmental applications.
Tree Crown Delineation from Photography and Satellite Imagery
An attempt at creating an automated process of delineating tree crowns from photography and imagery.
Vegetation Canopy LIDAR Mission
Joint effort to begin mapping vegetation and topography with LIDAR. Should begin in Year 2000. Links to related sites.
Washita '92 Project
Washita '92 was a cooperative experiment between NASA, USDA, several other government agencies and universities to test the usefulness of remotely sensed data in hydrologic modeling. The primary goal during the experiment was to collect a time series of spatially distributed hydrologic data, focusing on soil moisture and evaporative fluxes, using both conventional and remotely sensed methods. The experiment was conducted on the Little Washita Watershed which is located southwest of Chickasha, Oklahoma. This is a research watershed that is currently managed by the USDA ARS Grazinglands Research Lab in El Reno, OK. NASA provided two aircraft; the C-130 and the DC-8. The C-130 carried the ESTAR L band microwave radiometer, the 37 GHz microwave radiometer, the laser profiler, the NS001 multispectral scanner, the thermal infrared multispectral scanner and cameras. The DC-8 flew the three frequency synthetic aperture radar.
WebWinds Project
WebWinds is an interactive science data visualization system. WebWinds is written in Java, is available for all major computer platforms.