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Access to satellite low and high resolution data & resources.


Where exactly are the Earth observation satellites? What do they actually see? What is really meant by spatial and spectral resolution?We present a brief guide to remote sensing.


As you may imagine, there is more to remote sensing than space satellites alone. The term refers to all the many technologies that make it possible to obtain information on an object using instruments that are not in direct contact with it. The instruments fitted to aircraft so that they can observe our planet are also remote sensing devices. As for Earth observation satellites, they cover a variety of devices with very different characteristics located at varying distances from the subject of scrutiny.


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URL AVHRR/NOAA Archive Data
News Canadian Space Agency - Water Sector Survey/ Enquête du secteur de l'eau de l'Agence Spatiale Canadienne (ASC) Dear  Colleagues,

You have been selected to participate in a Water Sector Survey commissioned by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to improve the application of remote sensing for Water Resource Management.  The survey will inform the CSA on the needs and opportunities for future development of remote sensing products, services, and applications to support operational Water Resource Management.

To access the web-based survey, click here: CSA Water Sector Survey.

Please complete the survey by Friday October 5th, 2007. The survey will take approximately 20 minutes of your time.

Benefits of Participating
1) By responding to the survey, you will have a chance to provide valuable feedback on the needs and opportunities within the Water Resource Sector.
2) You will be kept informed of future demonstration project opportunities with the Canadian Space Agency.
3) A summary of the results of the survey will be available upon request.

Confidentiality
Your responses will be kept anonymous and presented as summary statistics. The information provided through the survey will not be used for any other purposes. All contact information will be kept strictly confidential and will not be shared with third parties or used for any other purposes.

Contacts
If you have any questions or difficulties completing this survey, please send an email to: survey@watersector.ca.
To contact the CSA directly, please email the Steve Iris at the Commercialization Office: steve.iris@space.gc.ca.

Thank you for your time and cooperation.

Regards,

CSA Water Sector Survey Team
URL Dundee Satellite Receiving Station, Dundee University, UK Dundee Satellite Receiving Station, Dundee University, UK, maintains an up-to-date archive of images from NOAA, SeaStar, Terra and Aqua polar orbiting satellites. Images from geostationary satellites covering the whole earth are also available. To view the images please complete the on-line registration form. Registration is free and the images are free!
URL Gallery of enhanced Earth imagery (MODIS) http://www-loa.univ-lille1.fr/MODIS/Model.html
The images you are about to discover are more than mere satellite photos. They have been significantly enhanced by the most recent image processing
techniques, particularly, state-of-the art algorithms to eliminate atmospheric distortions. This virtual trip will reveal, at a resolution of 250 meters, the beauties of
our blue planet and hopefully convince you why it deserves our greatest care.
Louis Gonzalez <Louis.Gonzalez@univ-lille1.fr>
HTML Document IWMIDSP Phase III Release, how to seach images
URL MODIS Rapid Response system

The MODIS Rapid Response system has been developed to provide rapid access to MODIS data globally, with initial emphasis on 250m color composite imagery and active fire data. The MODIS Rapid Response imagery augment the MODIS Standard Land Products, which can be obtained from the LP DAAC. Availabilty of MODIS Standard Land Products will lag behind current satellite acquisition by a few days but all the data used to create images in the Rapid Response System are available from the GSFC DAAC (Level 1B data) or the LP DAAC (Thermal Anomalies - MOD14/MYD14).
News MODIS Reprojection Tool Web Interface for free data download !

MODIS Reprojection Tool Web Interface MRTWeb 2.0 combines familiar capabilities of the USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis) and the downloadable MODIS Reprojection Tool (MRT). The MRTWeb interface organizes GloVis and MRT funtionality into three main tabs: Selection, Process, and Download. Submitted jobs are run with MRT 4.0 processing software across multiple servers at the LP DAAC. Output data sets are staged on a job-specific ftp directory for FREE user download...

URL Modeling Evapotranspiration Diagram of energy balance for a growing plant.
URL NASA Earth Observatory Data & Images
Document Remote sensing for water resources

The availability and quality of water in a region directly affects its level of economic development. This is particularly true in arid and semiarid regions of the world. In many parts of the world, hydrological gauge stations are few and water inventory is incomplete. Poor knowledge of spatio-temporal distribution of surface water makes it difficult for water resource managers and policy makers to develop adequate water management plans and to establish wise water-use policies. Quantifying and modeling water cycling at various spatial scales have been important and active research fields for the past 50 years. Remote sensing can play a significant role in determining evaporation and transpiration and surface water production capacity of various surface cover types, and in estimating the spatial distribution of water balance and scaling up site specific measurements of water quantity and quality to regional and global scales.

By Peng Gong & Jing M. Chen, CASI (Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute) 2004.

URL SMART-1 views Middle East and Mediterranean Now more than 100 000 kilometres away from Earth, ESA (European Space Agency)'s Moon-bound spacecraft SMART-1 looked back at Earth and returned this planetary perspective of the Middle East and Mediterranean Sea. 'Smart' usage of the solar-electric propulsion system (the ion engine) has saved a lot of fuel and the spacecraft will get to the Moon earlier than expected. Almost 20 kilograms of the xenon fuel could be saved out of the original 84 kilograms, which could then be used to get closer to the Moon than planned, to within distances of between 300 and 3000 kilometres. This will give a coverage of the lunar surface at higher resolution and sensitivity.
HTML Document TERRA/AQUA MODIS images/data
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