Welcome to our Remote Sensing Linkspage.
We hope this newly formatted listing helps you more easily find the weather information you are looking for.
If you would like to recommend a site for inclusion, please let us know and we'll consider it.
If you find that a site doesn't work properly or that a link has become outdated, please let us know that as well. We'll update it promptly.
Until then, happy "surfing"!
Mike & Barbara (How the Weatherworks educators)
Basics of Remote Sensing from Space
http://orbit35i.nesdis.noaa.gov/arad/fpdt/1_intro/chap1.html
This is a NOAA/NESDIS-based tutorial which describes some fundamentals
for examining weather satellite and other images obtained from
Earth-orbiting satellites. Not complete, but still a great place
to start. See also http://orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov/arad/fpdt/enh/enh.html for further information about enhancement curves.
Iceberg
http://uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu/amrc/RONNE2.GIF
Great polar orbiting satellite view of Ronne Iceberg which was
larger than the size of Delaware.
NASA - GOES Project Science
http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/
GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.
As the title suggests, this is a list of places to visit which
have a space-based weather satellite focus. The list is long and
doesn't have site descriptions, but it classifies as a "gold
mine".
NASA - JPL Earth Images 
http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/
Links to lots of great images of the Earth
from satellite orbit.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
Lots of great images of the Earth from satellite
orbit.
NOAA/NESDIS - GOES Sounder
Weather Analysis/Forecasting Support
http://orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/soundings/
Weather satellites provide more than just pretty images. Satellites
can also probe the atmosphere to determine temperature and moisture
profiles 9and hence atmospheric stability), much like soundings
by weather balloons. The resulting high resolution depictions
can be used to identify local regions of potential severe weather
development.
NOAA/NESDIS - Weather and Oceanographic
Satellite Program
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/
Real-time and retrospective GOES imagery for up to 21 days; also,
some significant event imagery and imagery from other weather
satellites around the world.
Normalized Difference Vegetative Index (NDVI)
http://www-projet.cnes.fr/ceos/cdrom-98/ceos1/casestud/felix/felix0.htm
Desctiption of Normalized Difference Vegetation
Index (NDVI) and how it can be used to monitor and assess droughts
and their effect on vegetation and the environment. Uses data
obtained from polar orbiting satellites.
Ozone Hole
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/tovsto/archive/anim/
Historical still images and animations of the Southern Hemisphere
ozone hole from polar orbiting satellites.
Spaceborne Imaging Radar
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/
See how a highly sophisticated, X-band radar views the Earth.
Lots of images, divided into nine categories for easy viewing.
SST Animation
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~map/maproom/text/climate_pages/sst_olr/old_sst/sst_9798_anim.shtml
A two year animation shows the onset and demise of El Nino and
the start of La Nina. It takes a few minutes to load, but once
loaded, it can be replayed over and over again.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - satellite
imagery
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/latest_cmoll.gif
It's an awesome global, colorized, infra-red (temperature) view
of a prolate spheroid-shaped Earth based on satellite imagery.
Nope, the Earth hasn't been flattened, the shape has to do with
how the data is collected and displayed.
UV Information
http://www.safesun.com/uv_map.html
UV Index Forecast maps for the world, the US, and Australia.
This page was updated on June 17, 2001.
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