American University -- Project on Satellite Imagery and the News Media
You're looking at it now...The URL for the main home page is http://www.american.edu/radiowave.
 

Arkansas, University of
The University of Arkansas' index of remote sensing data browsers is located at www.cast.uark.edu/jpgis/index.html#Imagery.
 

Arizona, University of, -- Space Imagery Center
The Imagery Center, established in 1977, is one of 17 NASA Regional Planetary Image Facilities around the world. These
facilities collect and disseminate planetary mission data to local scientists, students, educators and the media.

The University of Arizona includes NASA's Regional Earth Science Applications Center.
 

Association of Research Libraries
This site provides access to the Association of Research Libraries' (ARL) Geographic Information System (GIS). The GIS page contains a comprehensive list of electronic atlas projects by state.  The site is located at http://www.arl.org/transform/gis/gistrans.html.
 

Bremen, University of
University of Bremen, Germany.  This site contains a Web-based image processing facility at http://axon.physik.univ-bremen.de/~rdh/online_calc/.
 

Brigham Young University --The GIS Online Web site
This site is located at http://kayenta.geog.byu.edu/gisonline/
 

 Boston University
This interdisciplinary site, http://www.remote-sensing.bu.edu/, is sponsored by the departments of anthropology, archaeology, geography, and geology. The center provides three primary services: 1) use of remote sensing data for interdisciplinary research; 2) education in remote sensing and GIS and; 3) training in the application of remote sensing techniques and GIS methodologies.
 

California State University - Dominquez Hills
CSU includes NASA's Regional Earth Science Applications Center specializing in wild lands fire hazards.
 

California, University of -- Berkeley Library Web
Dictionary of abbreviations and acronyms encountered in geographic information systems, cartography and remote sensing. The site is located at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/abbrev.html.
 

 California at Davis, University of -- Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing
This is the home page of Dr. Susan Ustin’s Remote Sensing Group, which specializes in interpretation of remotely sensed images for ecological studies, located at http://cstars.
ucdavis.edu/indexnf.html.
 

 California at San Diego, University of
Weather maps and satellite images, plus photos of a solar eclipse on May 10, 1994 can be viewed at this address, http://gort.ucsd.edu/mw/sp2.html. Also has links to other planetary information.
 

 Carnegie Mellon University
This home page, developed by Carnegie Mellon University student Mark Maimone, is an aging but informative site with links to many academic departments, ground stations and catalog services. This site also allows access to many images transmitted by satellites around the globe. The site is located at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/mwm/www/home.html.
 

Clark University - IDRISI Project
This site, located at http://www.idrisi.clarku.edu:80/  is a non-profit research institute in geographic information systems (GIS).   A brief description of the project can also be found at http://www.rst2.edu/schools/9975.html.
 

Colorado Climate Center
This site is located at http://ulysses.atmos.colostate.edu/Welcome.html.
 

Colorado, University of -- Center for Remote Sensing and Image Processing
The Center for Remote Sensing and Image Processing is part of the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research. This site hotlinks to some of their current projects such as Terrestrial Remote Sensing, AVHRR data Collection/Distribution, EOSDIS Testbed data system, NASA and Remote Sensing of Rice Paddy Trace Gas Emissions. The site is located at http://kurgan.colorado.edu.
 

Connecticut, University of  - LERIS
Laboratory for Earth Resource Information Systems conducts remote sensing and GIS research  at the University of Connecticut.  UConn includes NASA's Regional Earth Science Applications Center.
 

Cornell, University -- EOS project
This site is located at http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/EOS.html.
 

Curtin University Remote Sensing and Satellite Research Group -- Australia
Focuses on environmental management in Australia. Includes an A-Z guide to Australia on the Internet. The URL for this site is http://www.clc.curtin.edu.au/rssrg.html.

Delaware, University of -- Center for Remote Sensing
The University of Delaware's Center for Remote Sensing specializes in study of coastal pollutants, wetland/estuarine health and coastal management, and satellite oceanography. The site has at least 2 points of entry: http://triton.cms.udel.edu/crs/crs.html and http://triton.cms.udel.edu/crs/pages.
 

Delft University of Technology
This site, located at http://www.deos.tudelft.nl/ houses the Laboratory for Telecommunication and Remote Sensing Technology.
 

Dundee University
Archive of NOAA AVHRR/HRPT images of Europe for the last 15 years, with on-line access to lower resolution images (Quicklooks) for the last six months, and a full resolution data service on request. This is located at http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk. It also has an FTP site, ftp.sat.dundee.ac.uk associated with it.
 

Ediacara, University of
This site is available at http://www.ediacara.org/
 

Frei Universitat Berlin
This site is located at http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/english/index.html.

Hawaii, University of -- Satellite and Oceanography Lab
AVHRR images within the radius of reception of the university's HRPT station and from a station in San Diego. The processed images are available usually within 30 minutes of NOAA-12 passages. GMS images of the full GMS coverage area are available. The URL for the site is http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu.

Hawaii, University of -- "Virtual Hawaii" Home page
A distribution system, at http://www.satlab.hawaii.edu/space/hawaii, that provides easy access to earth and space science data concerning Hawaii.

Helsinki University of Technology
This site is located at http://foto.hut.fi.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory -- Ocean Remote Sensing
The Ocean Remote Sensing Group specializes in civilian and military applications of remote sensing technology in the marine environment. Also provides hot links to related sites via http://fermi.jhuapl.edu.

Kansas, University of
The University includes NASA's Regional Earth Science Applications Center.

Karlsruhe University
Located at http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/, this site produces relatively quick and complete access to European and Middle Eastern weather images derived from European satellites.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
LBNL includes NASA's Regional Earth Science Applications Center specializing in water research.

London University College -- Remote Sensing Unit
This site, http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/rsu/, provides a useful jumpstation to many other remote sensing sites worldwide .
 

Louisiana State University --  Coastal Studies Institute
     3rd floor, Old Geology Building
     Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex
     Baton Rouge, LA  70803-7527
     Tel:  504-388-2953
     Fax: 504-388-2520

Maine, University of
The National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) is a research consortium comprising the University of California-Santa Barbara, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Maine. This site contains information about the Maine site of the NCGIA with a special focus on faculty research and graduate student research.  Links to other participants in this program may be found at  www.ncgia.org.
 

Maryland, University of, Baltimore Campus
This site is a good starting point for tutorials, courses, and demonstration projects pertaining to remote sensing.
 

Maryland, University of, College Park
includes NASA's Mid Atlantic RESAC Consortium.

Minnesota, University of -- Remote Sensing Home Page
The University of Minnesota is home to one of the world's primary remote sensing programs. This site, http://www.gis.umn.edu/rsl/rsl.html, contains remote sensing/GIS jobs clearinghouse and an archive of the IMAGRS-L listserv. The Universityincludes NASA's Regional Earth Science Applications Center.
 

Missouri, University of -- Remote Sensing Center
This site, http://www.snr.missouri.edu/faculty/gis.html, provides information about public use of remote sensing data and GIS information.
 

North Dakota State University -- Department of Geosciences Links to Earth Science Resources
This site provides links to geology and geoscience sites .The site is located at http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/nd_geology/. NDSU includes NASA's Regional Earth Science Applications Center
 

Nottingham University -- Meteosat Images
This home page provides easy access to the latest WEFAX images transmitted by the Meteosat satellite through a directory listing images by date of acquisition or through a clickable map of the world. It is accessible via http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/pub/sat-images/meteosat.html and http://www.geog.nottingham.ac.uk.
 

Ohio State University
This site is located at http://asp1.sbs.ohio-state.edu.
 

Oklahoma State University  -- Spatial and Environmental Information Clearinghouse
This site is located at http://www.seic.okstate.edu.
 

State University of New York (SUNY)  Oneonta Remote Sensing Task Force
 

 Penn State University Weather Pages
Very useful site for weather information. Forecasts of temperatures, wind, precipitation and other parameters are available for numerous cities, mostly in the Northeast US. Includes QTVR movies of hurricane, sea-surface temperatures and topographic data. Also hourly weather statistics and ship weather reports from around the world. The site is located at http://www.ems.psu.edu/wx/index.html.
 

Reading University
This site provides world-wide weather images from many sources on the internet. The images accessible by region (Asia, Europe, etc.) are derived from polar orbiting satellites and converted to a standard format. An archive is held for 10 days and updated regularly. Various animation files of weather are classified by continents and interesting weather data. The site is located at http://typhoon.rdg.ac.uk/Data/Global/global.html.
 

Rice University -- GIS Geography Software
This site is located at gopher://riceinfo.rice.edu/11/subject/Geography.
 

Rosenstiel School, University of Miami
Located at http://www.rsmas.miami.edu, this site has a good collection of weather satellite imagery.
 

Scotland, University of
This site features links to many useful GIS and remote sensing sites, a major GIS bibliography from Ohio State University, the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) from GIS-L, and information on forthcoming GIS and Related Conferences. The home page, located at http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/gishome.html, is well maintained and relatively easy to use.
 

South Carolina, University of
This site, http://www.cla.sc.edu/geog/index.html, provides access to remote sensing and GIS software packages in addition to a storehouse of remote sensing data. This site also links to various NOAA and USGS WWW Resources. This site was formerly located at http://lorax.geog.scarolina.edu.

Stuttgart, University of -- Institute for Photogrammetry, Germany
This site is linked to the Xerox PARC Map viewer. Also at this site are great links to institutes worldwide that deal with photogrammetry, geography, geology, remote sensing, cartography and GIS. The URL for this site is http://www.ifp.uni-stuttgart.de.

Texas A&M University -- GIS Resource Pointer
This site is located at http://geoweb.tamu.edu/.
 

Texas, University of, at Austin -- The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection.
The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (PCL) holds more than 200,000 publicly accessible paper maps covering every area of the world. Most items in the collection have bibliographic records available in the UT Libraries On-line Catalog. This site includes on-line maps of current interest such as maps of Bosnia, Kosovo and the Gaza and West Bank. Also on-line are general interest and historical maps from around the world. This comprehensive collection is located http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html.

Unisys -- WXP-The Weather Processor WWW Server
This address, http://weather.unisys.com/, which also can be accessed through Goddard Space Flight Center, has current weather maps of the United States, plus a database of the best "WXP" (weather) images available on line. The site contains current satellite images, weather maps and movies, including infrared images and enhanced infrared movies. There is a section devoted entirely to views of Indiana. Purdue's
 

Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (in French)
Laboratoire de Télédétection et d'Analyse Régionale.
 

Utah State University -- Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences, CASS
CASS is active in ESA and NASA programs. There are a few images available from CASS projects at this site, which also provides links to other space science WWW servers. The site is located at http://www.cass.usu.edu.

Victoria University of Wellington
This site houses the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.  It offers and extensive program in physical geography.

Virginia, University of -- Library -- Geogpsatial and Statistic Data Center
The Virginia Atlas Project provides access to Virginia-based geospatial data and information via the web. Includes the Virginia County Interactive Mapper, which makes customized maps of counties and cities. Users can customize maps by choosing features to be displayed and can zoom in to a desired level of detail. The sites is available at http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/.

Warsaw Institute of Technology - Institute of Geodesy
This site is currently under construction, but contains information on Geodesy and Cartography in Poland.

Winnipeg, University of -- Remote Sensing and GIS Home Page
This site focuses on Winnipeg's certificate program in remote sensing. The URL for the site is http://www.coned.uwinnipeg.ca/remote/remote.htm.

Wisconsin at Madison, University of -- Space Science and Engineering Center
Near real-time daily browse GIF images from GOES series satellites. Antarctic and global composite images, weekly SST, forecast images, half-hourly updates of GOES-8 visible light, infrared and water data. For information contact gopher@ssec.wisc.edu. Available via URL at http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/index.html; via gopher at gopher.ssec.wisc.edu:70/11/gsdc.d or gopher:diamond.ssec.wisc.edu and via FTP at ftp:diamond.ssec.wisc.edu.
Also located at this site: CIMSS - Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Studies.  University of Wisconsin- Madison includes NASA's Regional Earth Science Applications Center.

Yale University
This site provides access to a growing collection of SPOT, Landsat, AVHRR and GOES data, and to GRASS, a raster-based software package. It is located at http://www.yale.edu/ceo/index.html.

Zurich, University of
Links to the University of Zurich's Remote Sensing Sites are located at www.geo.unizh.ch/rsl1/rs_links/.

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