Image Sources
Primary Image Sources
- GloVIS - USGS Global Visualization Viewer and primary site for Landsat and ASTER
- Reverb | Echo - Access most NASA data - MODIS Land products, ASTER, AVHRR, other data
- USGS Earth Explorer - Landsat satellite images, aerial photos, maps, and much more
Now includes on-demand Surface Reflecatance for Landsat look for CDR datasets
- USGS Satellite Image Catalog - A list of the types of satellite images offered by the USGS
With product descriptions and links to get the data
- LandsatLook Viewer - USGS browse for Landsat images from January 1999 to present - JPEG images only
- WELD - Web Enabled Landsat Data - USGS composites of Landsat data from January 2003 to present - US only
- The National Map -USGS site for National Elevation Data (NED), NAIP high res aerial photography, Landcover and other data
- Global Land Cover Facility - Many free ortho-rectified Landsat MSS, TM, and ETM scenes available
- MODIS Level 1 and Atmosphere Archive - MODIS Daily scenes and Atmosphere products
- MODIS Data Subsets - MODIS Land Product time-series subsets
- MODIS Reprojection Tool on the Web - Great way to get a limited number of MODIS tiles
- read the User Guide!
- Alaska Satellite Facility - SAR and ALOS data from the U. of Alaska Fairbanks
- USGS EROS home page - Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center
- Goddard Earth Sciences - Data and Information Services Center
- International Landsat Sources - Most sites charge for these images
- Landsat Org - A source for other free Landsat images
- Suomi and VIIRS Data Access - NOAA CLASS data server (register and view the tutorial)
- NOAA DMSP and VIIRS Nighttime Lights - NOAA Geophysical Data Center
- Declassified satellite imagery - USGS site for Corona and other images
- Corona Atlas of the Middle East - U. of Arkansas web-based image atlas
Ocean Data
Atmosphere Data
- AIRS - Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
- AURA - Atmospheric Chemistry
- CERES - Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System (NASA)
- SCIAMACHY - SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY
Snow and Ice
- NSIDC - National Snow & Ice Data Center - snow cover and sea ice products
NDVI Data
LiDAR
- CLICK - USGS Center for LIDAR Information Coordination and Knowledge
- LiDAR Links - Where to find LidAR data
Commercial Image Distributors
Other Image and Data Sites
Aerial & Shuttle (SSEOP) Photos