Technical material

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 the coastal environment. 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.

Geosciences Australia:
National Earth Observation Group
www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/earth-obs
Geoimage www.geoimage.com.au
Digital Globe (Quickbird, Worldview 2, Ikonos) www.digitalglobe.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/realtime/
NASA - Land Processes Distributed Archive lpdaac.usgs.gov/data_access
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.glcf.umd.edu:8080/esdi/
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