Map, Air Photo, and Satellite Interpretation

Geography 380

Spring, 1999

Dr. Dorothy Freidel Department of Geography Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928 email: dorothy.freidel@sonoma.edu

WEB RESOURCES

Online Guide to Remote Sensing--  http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/rs/home.rxml

 This page includes two web-based instructional modules on satellite imagery and radar imagery.

US Geological Survey Elevation Database http://weather.unisys.com/usgs/index.html

Down-loadable digital relief maps of the U.S.

Landsat Program Chronology-- http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sge/landsat/lpchron.html

Major events in the Landsat Program with emphasis on the period since October, 1992.

Landsat 7 -- http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sge/landsat/l7.html

Facts and specifications for Landsat 7, which was successfully launched Thursday, April 15, 1999. Look also on these pages for the Writer's Guide to Landsat -- very good information on the general uses and present state of the program.

EarthShots -- http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontents

Satellite Images of Environmental Change -- effects of desertification, deforestation, war, etc.

Remote Sensing Image Gallery -- http://sedac.ciesin.org/pidb/rsimages/RSGallery.html

Land use and land cover change, desertification in Africa, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Midwest, Pacific Northwest -- interesting images

ABAG Earthquake Maps and Information -- http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/

Hazard maps, including earthquakes, liquifaction, landslides, and others

EPA Surf Your Watershed Map Library -- http://www.epa.gov/surf2/maplibrary/

National, State, and local maps on all sorts of physical And cultural topics, not limited to watersheds.

Digital Atlas of California -- http://130.166.124.2/CApage1.html

Thematic maps based on census data showing distributions of population, ethnicity, education, income, etc.

California and Nevada Road Atlas -- http://130.166.124.2/ca_nv_rd1.html

Under construction, but many digitized 7.5' quads are available here

National Climate Data Center maps and data sets -- http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/onlineprod/drought/xmgr.html

Unisys Weather Page -- http://weather.unisys.com/

GOES satellite images, weather maps, weather data

Satellite images of Hurricane Mitch -- http://www.dartmouth.edu/artsci/geog/floods/Mitch.html

AVHARR and Radarsat images of flooded areas in Honduras and Guatemala

TOMS imagery of volcanic ash and SO2 -- http://skye.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) images of ash plumes from volcanic eruptions globally. Includes links to other volcano pages.

Last modified 4/13/99