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Remote Sensing Data Gateway

Contents 1 Background 2 Remote Sensing Data Catalogs 3 Selected Remote Sensing Data Websites 4 Additional Resources 5 Subsections of this Article 6 Information about this article 7 Contact

Background

This is a very subjective collection of some of the very best websites where remote sensing data and products can be found. Priority has been given to sites that access multiple resource sets.

Remote Sensing Data Catalogs

• ESA Earthnet Online - The best-designed, comprehensive interface to all products of any space agency

• Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) - The premier earth science data catalog in the world today, containing many ocean and atmosphere datasets

• NASA PODAAC Data Catalog - A comprehensive listing of PO.DAAC data products.

• WIST Warehouse Inventory Search Tool - NASA's principal interface to available remote sensing data

Selected Remote Sensing Data Websites

This listing of marine datasets is an amalgamation of the specific websites we have found most useful in the construction of national marine data collections and regional marine atlases.

• AOML Near-Real Time Wind Data - Vector and wind speed data from QuikSCAT, ERS-2, SSM/I, TMI and drifter platforms

• AOML XBT & GTS Data - Historical and near-real time databases

• AVISO Live Access Server - Near-real time and archived altimeter data products (all types)

• CCAR Near Real-Time Altimetry Data Homepage - Global and Gulf of Mexico altimeter products

• EarthNet Online - European Space Agency (ESA) data products and mission information

• ERDDAP Environmental Research Division's Data Access Program - Arguably the most powerful, comprehensive and best structured interface to major marine, atmosphere and remote sensing datasets on the web today. Separate menus and underlying protocol structures allow the user to access measurement tables, gridded results and WMS images of analyzed results. The extremely simple data selection forms are infinitely easier than many other services, and the number of available download formats exceeds all other known sites. This site should be the first resource to be consulted when a new data search is necessary.
• EUMETSAT Ocean & Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility - An answer to the common requirements of meteorology and oceanography for a comprehensive information on the ocean-atmosphere interface. One of the objectives of the OSI SAF is to produce, control and distribute operationally in near real-time OSI SAF products using available satellite data with the necessary Users Support activities
  

• Global Land Cover Facility Data and Products - Includes satellite imager, products derived from imagery, and the World Database on Protected Areas

• Globewave - Free access to satellite wave data and products in a common format, both historical and in near real time from various European and American satellites [Under construction]

• HERMES - Web portal to access the GlobColour Project datasets (ENVISAT/MERIS, MODIS/AQUA, OrbView-2 /SeaWiFS)
  • Currently the server is returning unusable links for client-ordered data

• MODIS Rapid Response System - Daily satellite images of the Earth's landmasses in near real time. True-color, photo-like imagery and false-color imagery are available within a few hours of being collected. Long-term archive included.

• NASA PODAAC Data Catalog - A comprehensive listing of PO.DAAC data products.

• National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) Raster Roam - The Raster Roam Search will display the requested NGA standard raster product over the area of interest. An area can be selected by clicking on the image map, providing a center point, or by defining the center point using the GEOnet Names Server.

• Ocean Productivity - To provide global, updated ocean productivity estimates, plus information on the models employed, access to model code and ancillary data sets, and comparisons of productivity estimates for alternative models.

• Ocean Color Radiometry Online Visualization and Analysis: Global Monthly Products - Current data sets include SeaWiFS, MODIS-Aqua and MODIS-Terra (SST only)

• Ocean Color Time-Series Online Visualization and Analysis - Visualization and analysis of SeaWiFS ocean color data, and MODIS Aqua ocean-color and SST data

• NASA Ocean Color Web - MODIS-Terra & Aqua, OCTS, SeaWIFS and CZCS data products from daily/synoptic to climatological products (NOTE: Hover cursor over thumbnail images to get download controls. SMI product is an HDF image file; BIN product (also HDF) is huge, containing all system data).

• OceanWatch North Pacific Demonstration Project - Live access server for near real time satellite data

• OSCAR: Ocean Surface Current Analysis - Realtime - Near-realtime ocean surface currents derived from satellite altimeter and scatterometer data

• PO.DAAC Ocean ESIP Tool (POET) - Enables you to subset, plot, & view many of US NASA's PO.DAAC's data products (ocean remote sensing; marine meteorology; pigments)

• Prototype Global Shoreline Data (Satellite Derived High Water Line Data) - Acquired from orthorectified NASA, 2000 era, LANDSAT GeoCover (multi-spectral imagery)

• SeaBASS: SeaWIFS Bio-Optical Archive and Storage System - Repository of in situ oceanographic and atmospheric data to support satellite data product validation, algorithm development, and climate-related inquiries

• SRTM 90m Digital Elevation Data - The CGIAR-CSI GeoPortal provides SRTM 90m Digital Elevation Data for the entire world, processed to fill data voids

• US JGOFS Live Access Server - Climatology, In situ Data Synthesis, Model Results, Ocean Color, Synthesis Projects

• WIST Warehouse Inventory Search Tool - Client for searching and ordering earth science data from various NASA and affiliated centers

Additional Resources

Subsections of this Article

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Information about this article

Short title: Remote Sensing Data Gateway

Description: none

Expertise level: beginner

Author: Murray.Brown

Approval status: approved

Approved by: Murray.Brown

Last change: 2011-11-15

Subsection of: Data Websites and Catalogs, Remote Sensing Data Concepts

Contact

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