A  COMPILATION  OF  LINKS  TO  REMOTE  SENSING  TUTORIALS

 

*** Note: The Remote Sensing Tutorial from the Applied Information Sciences Branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center  (The "Short" Tutorial) formerly hosted by the Applied Information Sciences Branch is now being hosted by the Remote Sensing Education and Outreach Laboratory of the EOS-Goddard Program Office (Code 420) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
The Applied Information Sciences Branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is heavily involved in technology outreach and transfer. As part of this activity, we recognized the need for a highly intuitive, easily accessible remote sensing tutorial that hopefully will serve as a primer for the new user as well as a teaching tool for the educational community. We wanted this tutorial to provide a detailed understanding of the utility of the data in light of the fundamental principles of electromagnetic energy, especially as they relate to sensor design and function. The primary author of the Tutorial is: Nicholas M. Short, Sr. email: nmshort@nationi.net
http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/

*** The Canada Centre for Remote Sensing is pleased to offer this tutorial on remote sensing technology and its applications. This interactive module is intended as an overview at a senior high school or early university level and touches on physics, environmental sciences, mathematics, computer sciences and geography. 
http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/learn/tutorials/fundam/fundam_e.html   and    http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/learn/learn_e.html

*** Watching Over Our Planet From Space  A wonderful first look at the subject of "Remote Sensing", this education kit is intended for students 11 to 15 years of age. It contains an introduction to remote sensing, twelve hands-on activities and a supplemental reading section, all rich with satellite imagery, photography and illustration. Students will become aware of the nature of satellite imagery and how it can be used to monitor environmental issues such as oil spills, forest fires, flood damage, mine wastes, forest clearcutting and land use. 
The kit can be used in a self-directed manner and comes as a complete teaching tool. Using a paper copy, printed in colour, students follow clear instructions to interpret satellite images, making measurements, finding interesting features and answering questions. 
http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/learn/tutorials/youthkit/intro_e.html

** Multisensor RS Capabilities Land  Applications of present and future Optical Remote Sensing Satellite Sensors
http://cgi.girs.wageningen-ur.nl/cgi/projects/bcrs/multisensor/report1/index.html

En esta página encontraras cursos de percepción remota, oceanografía satelital y sistemas de información geográfica (SIG) básica y avanzada.
Los cursos de percepcion remota y SIG fueron creados por NASDA/RESTEC y el apunte de Introducción a la Oceanografía Satelital es una transcripción de mis apuntes para el curso Intruducción a la Oceanografía Satelital, para alumnos de Biología Marina de la Universidad de Concepción. 
http://www.profc.udec.cl/~gabriel/tutoriales/

* On-Line Remote Sensing Tutorial  from Ohioview; a grassroots organization formed in 1996 to make satellite data more accessible and to fill the knowledge gap in education about the the uses of data.
http://dynamo.phy.ohiou.edu/tutorial/tutorial.html

The Remote Sensing Core Curriculum  Educating Tomorrow's Technology Leaders  An ASPRS Initiative for Space Age International Education
http://www.research.umbc.edu/~tbenja1/

Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing Tutorial. This document is in the very early stages of development, and all links may not be available at all times. Links will be added as they are completed. Please send comments and suggestions to Shannon Crum at shannon@texas.grg.utexas.edu
 http://www.colorado.Edu/geography/gcraft/notes/remote/remote_f.html

Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing   This unit introduces basic concepts of remote sensing of the environment. It is intended to provide you with the background information necessary to successfully use remotely sensed imagery in conjunction with GIS technology to answer questions about the world in which we live. 
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/remote/remote_f.html

Airborne Remote Sensing Basics  Charles L. Walthall USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab Beltsville, Maryland
http://hydrolab.arsusda.gov/rsbasics/

American Museum of Natural History  Explore the Natural World with Science Bulletins
Our Feature stories, interactive data visualizations, and weekly Snapshot images bring you recent discoveries and new technologies in astrophysics, Earth science, and biodiversity.
http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/

AOS Satellite Meteorology Course Main Page
http://itg1.meteor.wisc.edu/wxwise/satmet/index.html

Basics of Remote Sensing From Satellites Tutorial References from NOAA
http://orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov/arad/fpdt/tutorial/intro.html

CASTLE  Computer Aided System for Teleinteractive Learning in Environmental Monitoring
http://castle.nlr.nl/

Columbia Earthscape selects, gathers, edits, and links the widest range of Earth resources available online. In our new interface, the four sections of the compass give teachers, students, scientists, and decision-makers instant access to the tools they need to understand our planet.
http://www.earthscape.org/

COMET Satellite Meteorology Course
http://www.comet.ucar.edu/class/satmet/schmit/sounder.html

CSIRO - CNES CDRom
http://ceos.cnes.fr:8100/cdrom/ceos1/maincon.htm

The Digital Image Processing Simulator (DIPS) is an interactive Digital Image Processing learning tool. DIPS covers a core body of Digital Image Processing concepts which are usually taught in Remote Sensing courses and are critical to the understanding of image analysis.
DIPS tries to bridge a learning gap between classroom explanations of concepts and their demonstration on the image processing system. It has been designed in a way that it can be shared between the student and the teacher. 
http://www.iifm.org/downloads/dips/

Distance education - Principles and Applications of Remote Sensing  This is an open distance education course on Remote Sensing. This introductory course will cover topics as they are taught at ITC during the core module phase of the educational program.
The content of the course is designed for three weeks full-time, but the course is spread over for six weeks to allow participants to follow the course even if they have only half days available. If more time is required, individual arrangements can be made with the lecturers prior to the commencement of the course.
http://www.itc.nl/education/programme_levels/distance_education/0001.asp

The Earth Observatory Remote Sensing mini-tutorial
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/RemoteSensing/

EARTH UPDATE is an interactive, real-time display system of Earth images and data designed for Museums and Schools and available to the general public as a "museum in a case"!
http://earth.rice.edu/mtpe/spheres.html

Environmental Remote Sensing  Interactive CD-ROMs for grades 7-12  from the Department of Geography, Geology and Anthropology at Indiana State University 
http://baby.indstate.edu/gerstt/index.html

From A Distance: An Introduction to Remote Sensing/GIS/GPS
http://education.ssc.nasa.gov/ltp/

GISdevelopment Remote Sensing  Remote Sensing is the science and art of acquiring information (spectral, spatial, temporal) about material objects, area, or phenomenon, without coming into physical contact with the objects, or area, or phenomenon under investigation.
http://www.gisdevelopment.net/tutorials/tuman008.htm

Guidelines for Airborne Remote Sensing Imagery  These notes were developed from presentations at an Airborne Remote Sensing Workshop conducted at the National Soil Tilth Laboratory, Ames, IA on November 25-26, 2002.
http://hydrolab.arsusda.gov/rsbasics/

The IMCS Educational Web Page: Tutorial Section
http://marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/education/Education_Tutorial.html

Welcome to the Learning Web, a portion of the USGS web dedicated to K-12 education, exploration, and life-long learning. Visit often and explore things on, in, around, and about the Earth such as plants and animals, land, water, and maps.
http://www.usgs.gov/education/

Looking at the Earth from Space:  Environmental science education activities for Grades 4-8. 
http://ice.ucdavis.edu/~robyn/sge_ee.html

How MODIS Works:  MODIS Calibration Overview
http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/  and click on "Calibration"

NOAA: Digital Terrain Data: Scientific Discussion
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/topo2.shtml

GEODESY FOR THE LAYMAN from the NIMA
http://164.214.2.59/GandG/geolay/toc.htm  and document download at: ftp://164.214.2.65/pub/gig/geo4layman/Geo4lay.pdf

** Geomorphology from Space is an out of print 1986 NASA publication edited by Nicholas M. Short, Sr. and Robert W. Blair, Jr. designed for use by the remote sensing science and educational communities to study landforms and landscapes.  The core of this book is a gallery of space imagery consisting of 237 plates, each treating a geographic region where a particular landform theme is exemplified. Commentary, photographs, locator maps, and sometimes a geologic map accompany each plate. 
http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/geomorphology/GEO_HOME_PAGE.html

Remote Sensing Glossary   from the Columbia University Remote Sensing Image Analysis Laboratory 
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/rsvlab/glossary.html

Index to Glossary Terms from the EROS Data Center
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/glis/hyper/glossary/index

Remote Sensing Glossary from the Remote Sensing Tutorial
http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/AppD/glossary.html

Remote Sensing Glossary  This Glossary was extracted directly from an Internet Site (address at end of Glossary) prepared by Jeff Weissel and others at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and is reproduced here with their permission. 
http://mercator.upc.es/nicktutorial/Glossary/glossary.html

Remote Sensing Glossary  Reference Information for Virtual Nebraska  Terms, Definitions and Concepts
http://www.casde.unl.edu/vn/glossary/intro.htm

The Alternate Dictionary of Remote Sensing  by Wim Bakker (unless stated otherwise) 
http://www.itc.nl/~bakker/dictionary.html

** A Guide for Teachers  by Randy Keller Pan American Center for Earth and Environmental Sciences Department of Geological Sciences University of Texas at El Paso 
http://www.geo.utep.edu/pub/keller/AGuideforTeachers.html

Virtually Hawaii Introduction to Radar Remote Sensing
http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/space/hawaii/vfts/kilauea/radar_ex/intro.html

** Virtually Hawaii  Introduction to Visible and Infrared Remote Sensing
http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/space/hawaii/vfts/oahu/rem_sens_ex/rsex.spectral.1.html

Applications of Hyperspectral Reflectance Data to Ecology: Tutorial
http://vcsars.calstatela.edu/hrs/hrs.html

IMAGERS  Interactive Multimedia Adventures for Grade-school Education using Remote Sensing
http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html  with a very good section on the electromagnetic spectrum at: http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/ems/ems.html

Imaging Spectroscopy: Concept, Approach, Calibration, Atmospheric Compensation, Research and Applications
http://makalu.jpl.nasa.gov/rog/is.html

Development of an Interactive Internet GIS/Remote Sensing Tutorial
James E. Perry, PWS, Ph.D.
Dept. Coastal and Ocean Policy
College of William and Mary
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
http://www.ceosr.gmu.edu/vaccess/VAccess0914/14Jimperry/sld001.htm

Introduction to Hyperspectral Imaging  Hyperspectral Images produced by a new generation of sensors are finding many applications in resource management, agriculture, mineral exploration, and environmental monitoring.  Learn how to use hyperspectral images more effectively by exploring the limitations of hyperspectral data as well as strategies for processing and interpreting images. A companion to Analyzing Hyperspectral Images.
http://www.microimages.com/getstart/hyprspec.htm

John Althausen's Introduction to Computer Cartography, Digital Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
http://www.earthsensing.com/cart/
http://www.earthsensing.com/drs/
http://www.earthsensing.com/gis/

A Landsat-7 Teacher's Kit  A Global View of the Earth is a teacher's kit written to complement the Landsat-7 satellite. 
http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/landsat7/teacherkit/index.html

Lectures Remote Sensing Basics  At the Wageningen University the Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing gives an introductory remote sensing course.
http://cgi.girs.wageningen-ur.nl/k075218/default.htm

LASER / LIDAR TUTORIALS    from the Laser Systems Branch at NASA Langley Research Center
http://aesd.larc.nasa.gov/GL/tutorial/tut_menu.htm

Maps, Remote Sensing, and GIS  (d) Introduction to Remote Sensing   Chapter from Fundamentals of Physical Geography
http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/contents/2d.html

Introduction to Remote Sensing for Agriculture
http://www.uswcl.ars.ag.gov/EPD/remsen/rsagintr.htm

Introductions; Tutorials; what is RADAR?
http://www.spd.eee.strath.ac.uk/~saul/ras.html

R.S.A.T. Tutorials  The following links will guide you through a tour of satellite sensors, their spatial resolutions, spectral characteristics, advanced value-added processing, and thematic applications.
http://www.newc.com/rsat/tutorials.html

The University of Arizona Remote Sensing Tutorials
http://aria.arizona.edu/courses/tutorials/welcome.html

A list of ON-LINE REMOTE SENSING COURSES from the Arizona Regional Image Archive 
http://aria.arizona.edu/courses/courses.html

PRINCIPLES OF REMOTE SENSING 
http://www.science.edu.sg/ssc/virtual_ssc.jsp?type=4&root=140&parent=140&cat=239

** UCSC Environmental Remote Sensing Tutorial; "Remote Sensing for Environmental Applications" sponsored by ChevronTexaco
http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~hyperwww/chevron/index.html

Remote Sensing of the Global Environment by David J. Schneider Department of Geological Engineering and Sciences Michigan Technological University
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/rs/

Remote Sensing Basics  Here is where you can learn about some of the concepts that make remote sensing work. 
http://stargate.jpl.nasa.gov:1097/remote.html

Remote Sensing Data and Information
http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/rsd/RemoteSensing.html

The Remote Sensing Glossary   This Glossary was extracted directly from an Internet Site (address at end of Glossary) prepared by Jeff Weissel and others at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and is reproduced here with their permission.
http://mercator.upc.es/nicktutorial/Glossary/glossary.html

The Remote Sensing Institute (RSI) is an institute aimed at facilitating and promoting research and education in remote sensing and related areas by bringing together individuals and groups separated by departmental and/or college boundaries.
http://www.rsi.mtu.edu/index.html

The Remote Sensing Specialty Group A list of Remote Sensing Tutorial links
http://www.earthsensing.com/rssg/exercise.html

Remote Sensing Technologies Supporting Transportation Planning: Online Tutorial
http://www.pagnet.org/hostedsites/usdot/rootpage.htm

Remote Sensing Using Satellites was developed under a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). It is intended for undergraduate students enrolled in survey-level atmospheric science/meteorology courses. In related courses, such as earth science and physical geography, the Website could serve as a valuable resource. 
http://www.comet.ucar.edu/nsflab/web/index.htm

The University of Arizona Remote Sensing Tutorials
http://aria.arizona.edu/courses/tutorials/welcome.html

Remote Sensing Tutorial Examples in Environmental Applications
http://www.ija.csic.es/tele/rsweb/index_en.htm

A list of remote sensing tutorials under "Tutorial material" from the University of Nottingham
http://www.geog.nottingham.ac.uk/~mather/useful/Tutorials.html

Welcome to Rocket and Space Technology. This Web page can trace its roots to an amateur project to compose a computer program simulating the launch of a rocket to orbit. 
http://www.braeunig.us/space/

Sensory Remote Sensing
http://octopus.gma.org/surfing/sensing/sensory.html

The SOAR-High Project is an exploration of distance learning as a collaboration. Students and teachers in distant classes are working together to study Earth System Science. Students learn do science as scientists do it - a process which involves reading, learning, experimenting, analyzing, writing, collaboration and sharing information. 
http://csc.gallaudet.edu/soarhigh/

THE SOFIA Education Program  As an Origins mission under NASA's Office of Space Science, SOFIA is building an exciting education program designed to help educators (classroom teachers, college faculty, and informal science educators) bring more science and astronomy to their students. There will be many opportunities for educators to get involved with SOFIA, including the possibility of actually flying on SOFIA during a research flight!
http://sofia-usra.arc.nasa.gov:80/education/

The Sun Earth Connection Tutorial
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/sechtml/tut.html

Unconventional Definitions of Remote Sensing
http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/learn/terms/definition/unconvdef_e.html

INTRODUCTION TO UPPER ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE  For High School Students and Non-Scientists
http://spacescience.nrl.navy.mil/introupatmsci.html

Welcome to USGS  TerraWeb for KIDS
http://terraweb.wr.usgs.gov/TRS/kids/

Tutorial on earth observation
http://earth.esa.int/mcities/project_features/tutorial.htm

USGS, Spectroscopy of Rocks and Minerals, and Principles of Spectroscopy 
http://speclab.cr.usgs.gov/PAPERS.refl-mrs/refl4.html

Welcome to the WW2010 Online Guides, the next evolution phase of our web-based instructional resources. Formerly known as the Guide to Meteorology, we are expanding these resources beyond the scope of meteorology to other disciplines like climate, remote sensing and global change.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/home.rxml

 

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