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# Technical manuals and data sources

## Technical manuals or text books

Jensen, J. R. (2005). Introductory digital image processing: a remote sensing perspective. Third edition, Prentice Hall: 316.

Lillesand, T.M., Kiefer, R.W. and Chipman, J.W. 2008. Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation. 6th Edition, John Wiley and Sons.

## Data acquisition

The following is a brief list of data providers that the project team have acquired image data from for working in terrestrial and coastal environments. It is not exhaustive. Users are referred to The Dec 2005 / Jan 2006 Edition of “Position”, the journal of the Australian Spatial Sciences Institute for its listing of image data providers (http://positionmag.com.au/POS/pos_frame.html).

Geosciences Australia: National Earth Observation Group | www.ga.gov.au/remote-sensing
Geoimage | www.geoimage.com.au
Digital Globe (Quickbird) | www.digitalglobe.com
Geoeye (Ikonos) | www.geoeye.com
SPOT Imaging Services Australia | www.spotimage.com
AAM Group (Airborne lidar and photography) | www.aamgroup.com
Hyvista (Hymap) | www.hyvista.com
Terrestrial remote sensing toolkit | www.gpem.uq.edu.au

## Free data

Google Earth | earth.google.com
NASA – Near Real Time MODIS | rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov
NASA - Land Processes Distributed Archive | edcdaac.usgs.gov/main.asp
USGS Landsat Archive | landsat.usgs.gov
NASA - EOSDIS | esdis.eosdis.nasa.gov/eosdis/overview.html
OceanColor | oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov
Earth Science Data Interface | glcfapp.umiacs.umd.edu:8080/esdi/index.jsp
Millenium Coral Reef Project | oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi/landsat.pl
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission | www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/

## Time series image analysis

Time series image analysis (all data) | disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni