Remote Sensing Earth Data |
Satellite/spacecraft |
Instrument/sensor |
Galileo Earth |
Galileo SpaceCraft |
camera |
Sea Surface Temp. (SST) and El Nino |
NOAA Meterological Satellites -7, -9, and 11 |
Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) |
Normalized Daily Vegetation Index (NDVI) |
NOAA Meterological Satellites -7, -9, and 11 |
AVHRR |
Water Vapor |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-8) |
Imager, infrared (IR) channel |
Earth at Night |
Defense Meterological Satellite Progrm (DMSP) |
Operational Line Scanner (OLS) |
Cloud Motion |
A one month sample (October 1983) of composite images from cloud cover data collected from a suite of U.S., European, and Japanese geostationary satellites and U.S. polar orbiting meteorological satellites. |
Ground Based Earth Data |
Surface Data Source |
Earthquakes |
United States Geological Survey's (USGS) National Earthquake Information Center |
Plate Boundaries |
United States Naval Research Lab |
Volcanoes |
Smithsonian Institutions Global Volcanism Program |