Satellites and Remote Sensing

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earth2.gif (616 bytes)      Geostationary Satellite Server - Are you interested in seeing the latest weather-related satellite images?  Click on this site.  View severe storm sectors, tropical storm event areas, coastal views of the oceans, gulf, or lakes regions, and view them as either visible, water vapor, or infrared images.  Cool site!

earth2.gif (616 bytes)    GOES Project Science - This GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) site contains images, the history of GOES, Quick Time movies, and information on NASA, scientists who use this information, and sites for other images.  My students can access this site for archived hurricane, and other, images!

earth2.gif (616 bytes)   A New Star in the Sky - Something in the heavens is growing brighter and it will soon become one of the more eye-catching stars in the night sky. No, it's not a supernova. It's the International Space Station!  Use the J-Track and J-Pass programs to either locate the ISS or other satellites or to determine when they will be visible in your location!

earth2.gif (616 bytes)   Landsat 7 - This site will allow you to see current and future paths of Landsat 7.  Also, get information on cloud cover and more!

earth2.gif (616 bytes)     EROS (Earth Resources Observational System) - Order maps from the USGS, search their Photo Finder, investigate the learning web, and hit the Earthshots site.

earth2.gif (616 bytes)     U.S.G.S. Maps and Aerial Photos - This site is a link for TerraServer, MapTech, and TopoZone.  Retrieve and print different aerial photographs, topographic maps, bathymetric maps, and have some fun trying to locate your school or home!

earth2.gif (616 bytes)       Earthshots - This site offers satellite images and accompanying articles from around the world.  Article topics include:   agriculture, city, desert, disasters, forests, geology, water, and wildlife.

earth2.gif (616 bytes)         OSEI - (Operational Significant Event Imagery)   The OSEI team produces imagery of natural or anthropogenic environmental events.   View the Image of the Day!

earth2.gif (616 bytes)        TerraServer - Click on famous satellite images or type in a search and find the satellite image of your home, office, school, or favorite vacation spot! 

earth2.gif (616 bytes)        NASA's Observatorium - Satellite images of the United States.  Click on this site to find satellite images of some famous sites in the continental United States.  This site explains the color-coding of these Landsat images.

earth2.gif (616 bytes)         TPC (Tropical Prediction Center) - This site contains current and archival weather-related satellite images.  In addition, it contains the National Weather Service sites, NOAA, information on meteorology education, and satellite sites both polar orbiting and geosynchronous.

earth2.gif (616 bytes)         Solar System Explorations - This is a JPL/NASA site.  Contained here are images of the solar system, in particular those connected with recent missions such as Stardust and Mars Global Surveyor.

earth2.gif (616 bytes)         Windows To The Universe (University of Michigan) site to weather - related images.

earth2.gif (616 bytes)         Windows To The Universe - various sites and images relating to the earth sciences.

earth2.gif (616 bytes)         COOLSpace! - Interactive satellite site.

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