RS/EO directory - what is it?
The Remote Sensing / Earth Observation directory is just another website (based on GitHub pages) where you can find some useful resources in Remote Sensing (RS) & Earth Observation (EO). From data sources, learning resources, software and processing platforms you can find many potentially useful things! :-D (Almost) everything around here is alphabetically arranged so I am not organizing things according to my taste or preferences ;-) Let me know if you have suggestions to include here.
Table of contents
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Searching, visualizing and downloading RS/EO data
Free satellite data
Multi-platform
. Earth Starts Beating (ESB) Global Mapping Application link
. EOS Platform link
. EOS Land Viewer Data Analytics link
. ESA EOLi (ESA client for Earth Observation Catalogue and Ordering Services / not web-based) link
. NASA Earth Observations (NEO) link
. NASA EarthData search link
. Planet Explorer Beta link
. Rocket EO data browser link 1 link 2
. Sinergise EO Browser link
. USGS EarthExplorer link
. USGS GloVis link
. Vertex - Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) Data Portal link
. Vito Data Portal link
Landsat
. USGS ESPA Landsat data ordering interface link
. EarthNow! Landsat Image Viewer link
MODIS
. MODIS Web Earth Observation Monitor (webEOM) link
Sentinel
. Awesome Sentinel curated list of Sentinel-related tools, tutorials and API’s link
. BOKU Sentinel-2 data pre-processing service link
. ESA SciHub Sentinels Data link
. IPSentinel - Sentinel data hub for Portugal link
. Sentinel-2 World cloudless mosaic browser link
. Theia/CNES Sentinel-2 data pre-processing service link
Commercial satellite data
. Airbus Satellite Imagery link
. ASTRO DIGITAL link
. DigitalGlobe link
. Planet Labs link
. SkyWatch / Techstars link
. Urthecast link
RS/EO-based data sets, data sources and ‘high-level’ products
Digital Elevation/Surface Models
. ASTER GDEM Elevation data link 1 link 2
. JAXA ALOS Global Digital Surface Model “ALOS World 3D - 30m” (AW3D30) link
Forest data layers
. Global 1km Forest Canopy Height ICEsat/GLAS link
. Global Forest Cover Change v-1.4 (2000-2016) / U. Maryland link 1 link 2
. Global PALSAR-2/PALSAR/JERS-1 Mosaic and Forest/Non-Forest map link
. Global Tree Density dataset link
. JRC Forest cover mapping (1990, 2000 and 2006) link
Fused data sets
. Harmonized Landsat / Sentinel data link
Land cover / land use
. GLOBELAND30 (Global Land Cover data at 30m) link
. USGS 30 Meter Global Land Cover link
Monitoring programmes/initiatives
. Global Forest Watch link
. Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) / U Maryland / NASA / GOFC-GOLD link
. Global Observation for Forest Cover and Land Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD) link
. USGS Early Warning and Environmental Monitoring Program (EWEM) link
Fires
. Global Fire Emissions Database, Version 4.1 (GFEDv4) link
Surface Temperature
. Sea Surface Temperature link
Multiple themes (land cover, vegetation, water, energy, climate, …)
. Copernicus Land Monitoring Service and high-level products link
. ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) / Open Data Portal link
. EarthEnv (global environmental layers for assessing status and trends in biodiversity, ecosystems, and climate) link
. NOAA/EOG/NCEI (nighttime observations of lights and combustion sources worldwide) link
. SEDAAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Data Center) datasets (mangroves, fires, urban extent, demography, etc) link
. WCMC-UNEP datasets (biodiversity, SST, ecoregions, protected areas, mangrove ecosystems, marine species, coral reefs, …) link
Catalogs and databases of EO missions
. Dept. of Space / Indian Space Research Organization link
. ESA Satellite Missions Database link
. Gunter’s Space Page (space missions) link
. ITC database of satellites and sensors link
. NASA missions link
. Observing Systems Capability Analysis and Review Tool (OSCAR / WMO) - List of satellites link
. Wikipedia List of Earth observation satellites link
Learning RS/EO
Courses
. Australian National University / Water & Landscape dynamics / Advanced remote sensing course resources link
. GEO (GIS and Earth Observation) University courses link
. GEO University Earth Engine Course link
. NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) link
. ESA course on FutureLearn: “Earth Observation from Space: the Optical View” link
. ESA course on “Radar Remote Sensing” at eo-college link
. ESA Radar Courses / Earth Online link
Books
. 2016 . Land Resources Monitoring, Modeling, and Mapping with Remote Sensing link
. 2016 . Practical Handbook of Remote Sensing link
. 2016 . Remote Sensing and GIS for Ecologists - using Open Source Software link
. 2016 . Remote Sensing of Water Resources, Disasters, and Urban Studies link
. 2016 . Remotely Sensed Data Characterization, Classification, and Accuracies link
. 2015 . Remote Sensing Image Fusion link
. 2015 . Remote Sensing Time Series - Revealing Land Surface Dynamics link
. 2014 . Remote Sensing of Natural Resources link
. 2013 . Advances in Mapping from Remote Sensor Imagery - Techniques and Applications link
. 2012 . Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover: Principles and Applications link
. 2011 . Advances in Environmental Remote Sensing - Sensors, Algorithms, and Applications link
. 2011 . Introduction to Remote Sensing, Fifth Edition link
. 2010 . Remote Sensing for Ecology and Conservation - A Handbook of Techniques link
. 2008 . Advances in Land Remote Sensing System, Modeling, Inversion and Application link
. 2008 . Earth Observation of Global Change - The Role of Satellite Remote Sensing in Monitoring the Global Environment link
. 2006 . Remote sensing of the environment: an Earth resource perspective link
Tutorials and other useful websites
. Awesome Sentinel - a curated list of data endpoints, tools for CopernicusEU Sentinel data link
. Copernicus EU YouTube channel link
. Data recipes / Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) link
. ESA EO Open Science YouTube channel link 1 link 2
. IDB (Index DataBase - database for remote sensing indices) link
. Intro2Radar by Iain Woodhouse link
. NASA - “The Electromagnetic Spectrum” website/booklet / Science Mission Directorate link
. SAR tutorial/glossary by ESA link
. SAR tutorial basics link
. SAR/EDU - Remote Sensing Education Initiative link
. Science Education through Earth Observation for High Schools (SEOS) Project tutorials link
. Tutorial: Fundamentals of Remote Sensing (Natural Resources Canada) link
RS & GIS open-source/free software
Free software
. DIVA-GIS link
. E-foto (digital photogrammetric workstation) link
. EnMAP-Box (software for processing hyper- and multispectral data) link
. ESA SNAP (Sentinel Application Platform) link
. ESA SNAP sen2cor (atmospheric correction module) link
. GeoVIS .net (software for photo-interpretation, classification and geo data management) link
. GRASS GIS link
. gvSIG link
. ILWIS link
. INTERIMAGE (open-source, knowledge-based framework for automatic image interpretation) link
. HyperMixTool (hyperspectral imagery tool) link
. MultiSpec (freeware multispectral image data analysis system) link
. Open Foris Geospatial Toolkit link
. Open Jump (open-source java-based GIS) link
. Orfeo Toolbox (OTB) link 1 link 2 link 3
. Optiks (expandable remote sensing and imagery analysis software platform) link
. OSSIM (advanced image processing and geospatial data fusion software) link
. polSARpro (polarimetric SAR data processing and educational tool) link 1 link 2
. PostGIS (support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database) link
. QuantumGIS link
. RSGISLib (Remote Sensing and GIS Software Library) link
. SAGA GIS link
. SPIRITS (Software for the Processing and Interpretation of Remotely Sensed Image Time Series) link
. SPRING link
. TerraView / TerraLib link
. uDig (Java solution for desktop GIS data access, editing, and viewing) link
. Whitebox GAT (Geospatial Analysis Tools) link
R packages
. Acquisition and Processing of MODIS Products (MODIS) link
. Bindings for the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library GDAL (rgdal) link
. Classes and Methods for Spatial Data (sp) link
. Creating and preprocessing MODIS time series (MODIStsp) link 1 link 2
. Interactive editing of spatial data in R (mapedit) link 1 link 2
. Interactive viewing of spatial objects in R (mapview) link 1 link 2
. Interface to Geometry Engine - Open Source GEOS (rgeos) link
. Landsat 8 Imagery Rescaled to Reflectance, Radiance and/or Temperature (landsat8) link
. MODIS data handling (MODISTools) archive-link
. Radiometric and topographic correction of satellite imagery (landsat) link
. Geographic Data Analysis and Modeling of raster data (raster) link
. Remote Sensing Toolbox (RSToolbox) link
. Simple Features for R / Encode and analyze spatial vector data (sf) link 1 link 2
. Tools for Reading and Handling Spatial Objects (maptools) link
Commercial software
. Agisoft PhotoScan (photogrammetric processing of digital images and 3D spatial model generation) link
. ESRI ArcGIS link
. Harris Geospatial ENVI link
. Hexagon Geospatial ERDAS IMAGINE link
. Clark Labs TerrSet/IDRISI link
. PCI Geomatics link
. Trimble eCognition link
Cloud-based platforms for EO data processing
Free cloud-based platforms
. Google Earth Engine link 1 link 2 link 3
. ESA Earth Science Data Cube (ESDC) link 1 link 2 link 2
. remap (large-scale ecosystem mapping and assessment) link
Commercial cloud-based platforms
. Descartes Lab link
. Raster Foundry link
. SpaceAnalyzer link