Find an aerial photo of just about anywhere (not
including Groom Lake) in the United States using the U.S. Geological Survey Photo Finder.
CCS - Real Time Data for Oil Spill
Response As part of the Santa Barbara Channel - Santa Maria
Basin Circulation Study, the Center for Coastal Studies, with
funding from the Minerals Management Service, can provide
near-real time data to be used in Oil Spill Response.
UC Berkeley
Library AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY & SATELLITE
IMAGERY. Unlike maps, which portray the physical and cultural
landscape with generalized symbols and colors, aerial photography
reveals the terrain as it exists in nature. All buildings,
bridges, roads, urban and rural areas, and other man-made
features are depicted as they were at the time of photography.
The Center for Coastal Studies is a research unit of the
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California,
San Diego. Located in San Diego, north of La Jolla Shores Beach,
adjacent to the SIO pier, the 
engages in world-wide
scholarly studies of the coastal
environment, the development of data acquisition systems and
research instrumentation, and advising on coastal protection and
sediment management.
The National
Weather Service Forecast Office Los Angeles/Oxnard 
has a variety of recent
satellite pictures.
The Federation of American
Scientists is engaged in analysis and advocacy on science,
technology and public policy for global security. In support of
the Intelligence Reform Project, they host the IMINT
Gallery of historic reconnaissance satelllite imagery.
University of Hawaii has virtual tours of Hawaii, aerial and satelllite photos, and oceanography imagery.
Earthrise
provides convenient access to earth observation images.
Office of
Earth Sciences at the NASA Johnson Space Center hosts the the
Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Access to all
photographs since 1968
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has begun
distributing film negatives, positives, and paper prints from Declassified Satellite Photos collected by the
U.S. intelligence community during the 1960's and early 1970's.
"We are stewards of land remote
sensing and associated data, advancing the availability and
applicability of these data for scientific and land management
users worldwide." is the EROS Data Center
Vision Statement.
Spaceborne Imaging
Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR)
is a joint U.S.-German-Italian project that uses a highly
sophisticated imaging radar to capture images of Earth that are
useful to scientists across a great range of disciplines. The
instrument was flown on two flights in 1994. One was on space
shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-59 April 9-20, 1994. The second
flight was on shuttle Endeavour on STS-68 September 30-October
11, 1994.
The NASA/JPL
Imaging Radar Home Page. An imaging radar works very like a
flash camera in that it provides its own light to illuminate an
area on the ground and take a snapshot picture, but at radio
wavelengths. A flash camera sends out a pulse of light (the
flash) and records on film the light that is reflected back at it
through the camera lens. Instead of a camera lens and film, a
radar uses an antenna and digital computer tapes to record its
images. In a radar image, one can see only the light that was
reflected back towards the radar antenna
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Go to home page of the Goleta Air and Space Museum.
Edited July 3, 1998.