Landscape-scale and Remote Sensing Resources for Monitoring Programs

North American Network for Remote Sensing Park Ecosystem Condition. A loose collaboration between US and Canadian agencies with similar needs and goals.

Remote sensing activities update - October 2004

Summary of remote sensing activities and related information. Quickly dated - send me corrections and updates! Word 49 KB.

I&M Landscape Monitoring Workshop proceedings

Download workshop summaries and presentations (posted 17 February 2004).

Remote sensing activities

Table of projects based on remotely sensed data. Always out of date-send me corrections! Excel 23 KB.

Remote sensing activities

Summary of I&M, NPS, and selected activities by other agencies actively using remotely sensed data. Initiated at I&M annual meeting, 2003. MS-Word 188 KB.

Acronyms commonly used by the RS community.

Hansen and Gryskiewicz 2003.

Final report on land use change for HTLN. Very good conceptual framework for evaluating land use/cover change and impacts on preserve areas. Tables 1 & 3 are valuable for linking LULCC to ecological processes and for identifying uses and sources of RS and ancilliary data. Zipped MS-Word, 830 KB.

Woodward 2002.

Use of remote sensing for long-term ecological monitoring in the North Coast and Cascades Network: Summary of a Workshop. Pdf format, 576 KB.

Mike Story's presentation, 2002.

Monitoring using Remote Sensing (2002 Program Meeting; PowerPoint, 1.25 MB)



Meetings and conferences
Multiagency RS meeting	1-3 March 2005, St. Petersburg, FL. Click here for NARSEC home with proceedings and related.
NPS Landscape Monitoring Workshop	Held 27-28 January 2004. I'll leave the site up for a while longer (there are many useful paper, etc posted on the site).


Alaska Support Office GIS Site	GIS coverages, and award-winning GIS tools (AlaskaPak, Theme Manager, SamplePak).
Midwest Region GIS	GIS coverages, Grid, and MetaData tools.
I&M GIS Site	In case you missed this on our home page ...
NPS GIS Program	NPS GIS Committee, data, etc.


Park scale Applications
NPS-USGS Fire Severity Mapping Program	http://edc2.usgs.gov/fsp/severity/fire_main.asp
USFS Weed Managers guide to Remote Sensing	http://www.fs.fed.us/eng/rsac/invasivespecies/index.htm
USFS MODIS Active Fire Maps	http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/index.html

National / International Applications and Programs
North American Landscape Characterization (NALC) Project	http://eosims.cr.usgs.gov:5725/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/nalc_proj_camp.html
Earthshots	http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontents
GAP Analysis Program	http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/
MRLC - Multi-Resolution Land Cover Consortium	http://www.epa.gov/mrlc/
NASA's Land Use Land Cover program	http://lcluc.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.asp
NASA's Ecocast Program	http://ecocast.arc.nasa.gov
NASA Landsat 7 Applications	http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/Landsat_Applications.html
NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program	http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/ccap_index.html
NOAA Topographic Change Mapping	http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/tcm/
Scanning Hydrographic Operational Airborne Lidar Survey	SHOALS => bathymetric mapping. http://shoals.sam.usace.army.mil/
USGS Geographic Analysis and Monitoring program (USGS)	http://gam.usgs.gov/
USGS Land Cover Characterization Program	http://landcover.usgs.gov
USGS National Map	http://www.nationalmap.usgs.gov/
Data Clearinghouses and Products
Excellent site for RS data - data dictionaries and sources.	http://www.itc.nl/~bakker/invdir.html
USGS Release of ~1,000,000 scenes of French SPOT Satellite Data
Comprehensive list of state level GIS data distributors	http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/scripts/pagewriter.php?ors[]=73&title=State%20Level%20Distributors%20and%20Clearinghouses
GeoCommunity - mostly GIS but also free and commercial data	http://edc.usgs.gov/geodata/
ImageNet	http://www.imagenet.com/
JPL links to Earth science data sources and archives	http://www-v0ims.gsfc.nasa.gov/v0ims/RELSITES/other_source.html
MicroSoft TerraServer	http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) consortium	http://edcw2ks15.cr.usgs.gov/lccp/mrlc2k/mrlc2k.asp
USGS EROS Data Center	http://edc.usgs.gov/index.html
University of Maryland Global Land Cover Facility	http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/index.shtml
UC Berkeley Library, Internet Resources Aerial Photography and RS	http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/aerial.html
US Census Bureau geographic products (TIGER files, etc.)	http://www.census.gov/geo/www/index.html

Organizations
ASPRS - Imaging and Geospatial Information Society	http://www.asprs.org/
Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute	http://www.casi.ca
Open Source remote sensing algorithms, code and technology	http://www.remotesensing.org/


Imaging Systems
ISciences - satellites, sensors, etc.	http://www.isciences.com/NewSite/sensors/
U. Wisc - satellites, data sources, etc.	http://www.ersc.wisc.edu/resources.php
ASTER	http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/
AVHRR	http://edc.usgs.gov/products/satellite/avhrr.html
AVIRIS	http://makalu.jpl.nasa.gov/aviris.html
Digital Globe (QuickBird)	http://www.digitalglobe.com/
Landsat	http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sge/landsat/landsat.html
Landsat 7 Updates - ETM is stuffed	http://landsat7.usgs.gov/updates.php
LIDAR - Michael Lefsky's LIDAR page	http://www.cnr.colostate.edu/%7Elefsky/lidar.html
Non-technical review of LIDAR	View or download
MODIS	http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Orbimage	http://www.orbimage.com/
Positive Systems	http://www.possys.com/
Satellite launch list	http://www.itc.nl/~bakker/launch-table.html
Space Imaging (IKONOS, etc.)	IKONOS, LandSat data. http://www.spaceimaging.com/
Spectometer list	http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~schaep/research/apex/is_list.html
SPOT Image	http://www.spot.com/
TERRA	http://terra.nasa.gov/

Tutorials
GIS and spatial data tutorial	Units on demography, transportation, land records, and terrain data are very informative. Highly recommended. http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/education/curricula/cctp/
ASPRS Core Curriculum	http://www.research.umbc.edu/~tbenja1/index.html
NASA Remote Sensing Tutorial	http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/
CCRS Learning Resources	http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/learn/learn_e.html
Remote Sensing from Michigan Tech	http://www.geo.mtu.edu/rs/
University of Colorado Site	http://www.colorado.Edu/geography/gcraft/notes/remote/remote_f.html
NASA LIDAR Tutorial	http://aesd.larc.nasa.gov/GL/tutorial/lidar/lidar_mn.htm

Software
ERDAS Imagine	http://www.erdas.com/
ER Mapper	http://www.ermapper.com/
ENVI	http://www.envi-sw.com/
ESRI - ArcGIS, etc.	http://www.esri.com/
ArcView LIDAR Extension	http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/tcm/lidar_handler.html
IDRISI	http://www.clarklabs.org/
MicroImage	http://www.microimaes.com/
Multi-Spec - free analysis package	http://dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu/~biehl/MultiSpec/
PCI	http://www.pci-pacific.com/
ScanMagic / ScanEX	http://www.scanex.ru/tematic/eng/soft.htm
Review of software	http://www.geoplace.com/gw/1999/0599/599srev.asp



Other Links etc.
http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/links/links.html	Very complete and up-to-date set of links. Maintained by NASA.
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/remote/index.html	Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
http://www.geography.eku.edu/GIS/netsites.html	Resources for GIS
http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/	Numerical Terradynamics Simulation Group - U. Mt.
http://wildfire.geog.csulb.edu/resac/research/rs/rs.htm	Southern Califorina Wildfire Hazards Group Remote Sensing


NARSEC	North American Network for Remote Sensing Park Ecosystem Condition. A loose collaboration between US and Canadian agencies with similar needs and goals.
Remote sensing activities update - October 2004	Summary of remote sensing activities and related information. Quickly dated - send me corrections and updates! Word 49 KB.
I&M Landscape Monitoring Workshop proceedings	Download workshop summaries and presentations (posted 17 February 2004).
Remote sensing activities	Table of projects based on remotely sensed data. Always out of date-send me corrections! Excel 23 KB.
Remote sensing activities	Summary of I&M, NPS, and selected activities by other agencies actively using remotely sensed data. Initiated at I&M annual meeting, 2003. MS-Word 188 KB.
Acronyms commonly used by the RS community.
Hansen and Gryskiewicz 2003.	Final report on land use change for HTLN. Very good conceptual framework for evaluating land use/cover change and impacts on preserve areas. Tables 1 & 3 are valuable for linking LULCC to ecological processes and for identifying uses and sources of RS and ancilliary data. Zipped MS-Word, 830 KB.
Woodward 2002.	Use of remote sensing for long-term ecological monitoring in the North Coast and Cascades Network: Summary of a Workshop. Pdf format, 576 KB.
Mike Story's presentation, 2002.	Monitoring using Remote Sensing (2002 Program Meeting; PowerPoint, 1.25 MB)