AstroWeb: Earth Observation Resources

AVHRR Land Pathfinder Data Set (AVHRR)

The Pathfinder AVHRR Land data sets are global, multichannel, land surface data derived from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometers (AVHRR) on the NOAA/TIROS operational meteorological satellites (NOAA-7, -9, and -11) which provide a continuous daily and composite data set from July 1981 through the present. These data, when complete, will enable studies of global vegetation and surface characteristics over more than a decade. Every effort has been made to provide a consistently processed data record by cross-calibrating instruments and minimizing changes to the processing algorithm during the processing of the 1981 to present data.

http://ivanova.gsfc.nasa.gov/outreach/EOSDIS_CD-03/docs/pathland_ancil.htm - Categories: earth

Astronomical Adventures

Guided geologic tours to northern Arizona by day and stargazing through large telescopes at night.

http://Astronomy-Mall.com/regular/products/astronomical-adventures/ - Categories: education earth

Astronomy & Geophysics (Royal Astronomical Society)

Astronomy & Geophysics is a journal for the publication of serious scientific papers on a range of subjects within the remit of the Royal Astronomical Society: astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, planetary science, solar-terrestrial physics, global and regional geophysics and the history of these topics. Astronomy & Geophysics also focuses on topical items, reports of meetings, science in the news and acts as a forum for discussion of all matters of interest to professional astronomers and geophysicists. Astronomy & Geophysics is the House Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society and as such records the business of the Society and informs Fellows of Council matters.

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/AAG/ - Categories: full_text earth

Berlin Meteorology Institute (MET, Freie Universität Berlin)

The Department of Meteorology at the Free University of Berlin WWW server offers an index of sources for meteorological data on the Internet sorted by continent, manner of data and server-type. In addition they provide weather observations from Berlin and Meteosat pictures received from the University of Nottingham. For users from the FU Berlin they also offer latest radar images. They have links to other servers with interesting documents. [in German]

http://www.met.fu-berlin.de - Categories: weather earth

INACTIVE LINK ? - 142 --- Bonn VLBI group (GIUB)

The VLBI group at the Geodetic Institute of the University of Bonn (GIUB) has been persuing the use of Very Long Baseline Interferometry for Geodesy and Astrometry since the late seventies and is operating one of the few existing centers for the scheduling, correlation and postprocessing of geodetic VLBI observations.

http://giub.geod.uni-bonn.de/vlbi/ - Categories: dept earth radio

Cecil and Ida Green Piñon Flat Observatory (PFO)

PFO is operated by the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics of the University of California, San Diego (IGPP-UCSD), and is intended to measure, as accurately as possible, crustal deformation in a tectonically active area, so as to improve our understanding of the earthquake cycle, and so improve estimates of the earthquake hazard throughout southern California. It is also intended to serve as a testing ground for new geophysical instrumentation. Investigators from throughout the world operate instruments at this site.

http://pfostrain.ucsd.edu/pfo/index.html - Categories: earth

Centre de Donnees de la Physique des Plasmas (Plasma Physics Data Centre - CDPP)

The CDPP (Centre de Données de la Physique des Plasmas) is a data centre serving the space plasma physics community. Its primary purpose is to preserve data relevant to the physics of naturally occurring plasmas, especially data from experiments which are either French or have strong French participation. The CDPP both renders these data accessible, and facilitates their exploitation. The CDPP is located in Toulouse (France), where it has its two principal components, one supported by the CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales), and the other by the CESR (Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements).

http://cdpp.cesr.fr/english/index.html - Categories: center earth particles radio solar

Centre for Research in Earth and Space Technology (CRESTech)

http://www.crestech.ca/ - Categories: earth space

INACTIVE LINK ? - 172 --- Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter (ESO)

http://www.eso.org/outreach/info-events/sl9/ - Categories: earth pictures space

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter (NASA-GSFC)

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/comet.html - Categories: earth pictures planetary space

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter (NASA-JPL)

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/ - Categories: earth pictures space

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter (SEDS-LPL, Ariz.)

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/sl9/sl9.html - Categories: earth space pictures

INACTIVE LINK ? - 338 --- Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Encounters Jupiter - Latest HST Images (STScI)

http://www.stsci.edu/EPA/Comet.html - Categories: earth space pictures

Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE, Argentina)

Information on the Centro Regional de Datos Satelitales (CREDAS) and on Argentina's National Space Plan

http://www.conae.gov.ar/caratula.html - Categories: agency earth education pictures space

Destination Earth (NASA)

The official Website for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise.

http://www.earth.nasa.gov/ - Categories: agency earth

Earth Observation Science group, Leicester University (EOS group)

Find out about the varied research projects and teaching activities of the EOS group at Leicester University. See the satellite image gallery, learn about the ATSR space-bourne instruments and read about the successful MSc course in Earth Observation Science.

http://www.leos.le.ac.uk/ - Categories: earth physics pictures

Estacion Astronomica Rio Grande (EARG)

http://www.earg.gov.ar/ - Categories: dept earth optical

Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS)

The Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences (CEES), as prescribed by the Global Change Research Act of 1990, established a program whereby the United States Global Research Program (USGCRP) members committed to work together with each other, academia, and the international community to make it as easy as possible for researchers and others to access and use global change data and information. Toward this end, agencies participating in the USGCRP organized the Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS) to take full advantage of the mission resources and responsibilities of each agency and to link the services of these data and information resources to each other.

http://globalchange.gov/ - Categories: earth

Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/ - Categories: dept earth

Hiraiso Solar Terrestrial Research Center/CRL (Space Environment Information Service)

Hiraiso Solar Terrestrial Research Center/CRL, Ibaraki, Japan. Serving space environment information inculding forecasts and alerts of solar flares and geomagnetic storms. Relating observed data are also available.

http://hirweb.nict.go.jp/ - Categories: dept earth solar space

INTErnational Real-time MAGnetic Observatory NETwork (INTERMAGNET)

INTERMAGNET is an international consortium of agencies which oversees the operation of ground-based geomagnetic observatories and which promotes the dissemination of their data. [also in French]

http://www.intermagnet.org/ - Categories: center earth

Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE)

IMAGE is a MIDEX class mission, selected by NASA in 1996, to study the global response of the Earth's magnetosphere to changes in the solar wind.

http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/ - Categories: earth solar space

International Earth Rotation Service (IERS)

http://www.iers.org/iers/ - Categories: misc earth

International Earth Rotation Service (IERS)

The mission of the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) is to provide timely and accurate data on the Earth's rotation and to maintain the International Celestial Reference Frame and the International Terrestrial Reference Frame.
The IERS is an interdisciplinary service that maintains key connections between astronomy, geodesy and geophysics.

http://www.iers.org/ - Categories: center earth

International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP)

The International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Science Initiative Home Page provides information on ISTP missions, campaigns, and activities.

http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/ - Categories: physics solar earth

Ionosphere Thermosphere Mesosphere (ITM)

http://itm.space.swri.edu/ - Categories: center earth

Italian Space Agency (ASI)

http://www.asi.it/ - Categories: agency abstracts earth

Light Pollution in Italy

Informations on the problem of light pollution in Italy and on its possible solutions, a reference list of more than 500 scientific and technical publications on the field with search utilities, many italian documents on-line and links to many italian and european related sites.

http://www.pd.astro.it/cinzano/defaulten.html - Categories: misc earth

MeteorObs (Global Forum for Meteor Observing and Meteor Science)

A Web site and email forum with nearly 600 professional and amateur subscribers world-wide, dedicated to all aspects of meteor observing and meteor astronomy.

http://www.meteorobs.org/ - Categories: mailing_list earth space

NASA's Computational Technologies Project (CT)

The Earth, its relationship to the Sun and Solar System, and the universe in its totality are the domain of the Computational Technologies (CT) Project. This effort employs advanced computers to further our understanding of and ability to predict the dynamically interacting physical, chemical, and biological processes that drive these systems. Goddard Space Flight Center serves as the lead center for the CT Project and collaborates with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

http://ct.gsfc.nasa.gov/ - Categories: comp_sci earth physics software solar space

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/ - Categories: dept earth weather

National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ - Categories: earth

National Geomagnetism Program (USA Geological Survey)

http://geomag.usgs.gov - Categories: earth

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ngdc.html - Categories: earth

National Oceanic Data Center (NODC)

http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/ - Categories: center earth

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/about/ncdcnoaa.html - Categories: earth

PlanetScapes

Views of the Solar System presents a vivid multimedia adventure unfolding the splendor of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more. Discover the latest scientific information, or study the history of space exploration, rocketry, early astronauts, space missions, spacecraft through a vast archive of photographs, scientific facts, text, graphics and videos.

http://www.planetscapes.com/ - Categories: education earth history other_astronomy pictures planetary solar space

Solar Terrestrial Dispatch (STD)

The Solar Terrestrial Dispatch (STD) provides information regarding the state of the Sun and its effect on the Earth and the space environment near the Earth.
STD's primary responsibility is to provide support and time-critical solar and geophysical information to institutions and individuals who require this information. For this purpose, STD monitors solar and geophysical conditions in real-time and provides e-mail (and other) distribution of numerous services.

http://www.spacew.com/ - Categories: physics earth solar weather

Solar, Auroral, Ionospheric, ... Information (Univ. Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada)

Solar Imagery (mirrored from SELSIS/BBSO)-updated once every three hours; Daily Reports of Ionospheric Data containing M(3000), foF2, MUF(3000), and TEC; East-West Solar Interferometer Scan Images from the Algonquin Radio Observatory 32-Element Interferometer; Weekly Solar Terrestrial Forecast and Review Reports; Daily GOES-6 and 7 X-ray Plots as well as special high-resolution xray plots of major flares; Daily NSO solar coronal line emission plots; Daily Pseudo-Full-Disk solar coronal maps of the coronal Fe XIV and Ca XV ion lines from the NSO; and more... - README

ftp://ftp.uleth.ca/pub/solar/ - Categories: pictures solar earth

Space Physics Resources on the Internet

http://www.oulu.fi/~spaceweb/lib/walker.html - Categories: earth

Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN)

An International Radar Network for Studying the Earth's Upper Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and Connection into Space.

http://superdarn.jhuapl.edu/index.html - Categories: telescope earth

The European Incoherent SCATter Scientific Association (EISCAT)

The EISCAT Scientific Association is an international research organisation operating three incoherent scatter radar systems, at UHF (931 MHz), VHF (224 MHz) and 500 MHz, in Northern Scandinavia. It is funded and operated by the research councils of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Japan, France, the United Kingdom and Germany.

http://www.eiscat.com/ - Categories: telescope earth solar

Tunguska Home Page at the University of Bologna (Italy) (Bologna)

The University of Bologna's official Tunguska Home page. It contains a collection of abstracts presented at the International Workshop Tunguska96 (Bologna, July 15-17, 1996), information about the group of the University of Bologna, data on "Tunguska-related" asteroids, links to Tunguska home pages in the world and related links.

http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/ - Categories: misc earth education

University of Oxford - Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics.

http://www-atm.atm.ox.ac.uk/ - Categories: earth weather

Views Of The Solar System

Views of the Solar System presents a multimedia adventure unfolding the splendor of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more.

http://www.planetscapes.com - Categories: education earth history other_astronomy pictures planetary solar space