Imagery and Remote Sensing: Reference Resources

Directories & Guides

• ASPRS Guide to Land Imaging Satellites (American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) Includes all civil land imaging satellites with resolutions equal to or better than 36 meters in orbit or currently planned to be in orbit by 2010.
• Annotated Guide to Earth Remote Sensing Data and Information Resources for Social Science Applications (Chen) Presents a selected set of print and Internet information resources for those interested in exploring and using Earth remote sensing data in interdisciplinary research, applications, and education.
• EarthExplorer (US Geological Survey) Identify geospatial products available from the US Geological Survey including aerial photography, satellite imagery, digital orthophoto quads, digital line graphs, digital elevation models, digital raster graphics, and other map products. Determine spatial coverage by defining coverage on a map, entering geographic coordinates, or entering a place name.
• Remote Sensing Resources (Remote Sensing Geographic Informations Facility. Center for Biodiverstiy and Conservation and the American Museum of Natural History) Guide to the practical aspects of locating, accessing, visualizing, and processing remotely sensed data, with lots of links to Internet resources.
• UCS Satellite Database (Union of Concerned Scientists) Database that contains information on approximately 800 military and commerical satellites. Updated quarterly and available as a downloadable Excel spreadsheet. For each satellite includes name of satellite, country of owner/operator, purpose, type of orbit, launch mass, date of launch, expected lifetime, contractor, and comments

Bibliographies

• The Aerial Photo Sourcebook (Collins) 1998 (ref TR 810 C64 1998) Includes an extensive bibliography of books and articles on aerial photography applications grouped under 40 subjects.
• RESORS Bibliographic Database (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing) Index to 100,000 remote sensing publications published between 1950 and 1995.

Treatises and Reviews

• Manual of Remote Sensing (Ryerson and American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) 1998 (G 70.6 M36)
  • Vol. 1: Earth Observing Platforms and Sensors (cd-rom only)
  • Vol. 2: Principles and Applications of Imaging Radar
  • Vol. 3: Remote Sensing for the Earth Sciences
• Remote Sensing Core Curriculum (University of Maryland Baltimore County, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and International Center for Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Vol. 1: Introduction to Photo Interpretation and Photogrammetry
  • Vol. 2: Overview of Remote Sensing of the Environment
  • Vol. 3: Introductory Digital Image Processing
  • Vol. 4: Applications in Remote Sensing
  • Vol. 5: K-12 Education

Indexes

• Geobase (HSU Users Only) Indexes over 5,000 journals and other publications in geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines, including extensive coverage of remote sensing literature.
• Many discipline indexes include remote sensing literature as applied to that discipline. See the list of available databases for appropriate indexes. Most disciplines have at least one index that covers its literature.

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