Earth from Space Astronauts Views of the Home Planet

Extras

Images from Space

Earth from Space – Astronauts’ Views of the Home Planet

http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/

OSEI (Operational Significant Event Imagery)

http://www.osei.noaa.gov/

NOAA Photolibrary

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/

NASA Image Exchange

http://nix.nasa.gov/

NASA’s Visible Earth

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

The GeoImages Project

http://geogweb.berkeley.edu/GeoImages.html

NASAs Earth Observatory

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

Earth Science Photographs from the USGS

http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/cabston/dds21lib.htm

Canada

The Canadian Association of Geographers

http://venus.uwindsor.ca/cag/cagindex.html

Canada’s Forest Network

http://www.forest.ca/

Canada Wildlife Service

http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/

Canadian Forest Service

http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/cfs-scf/index_e.html

Canadian Landscapes

http://sts.gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/clf/landscapes.asp

Geological Survey of Canada

http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/gsc/

Canadian National Earthquake Hazards Program

http://www.seismo.nrcan.gc.ca/

Soil Landscapes of Canada

http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/nsdb/slc/intro.html

The M=9 Megathrust Earthquake of 1700

http://www.pgc.nrcan.gc.ca/seismo/hist/1700.htm

The Southern Ontario Seismic Network

http://www.gp.uwo.ca/

Discover Canada’s Geoscience Heritage

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/geoscience/

Geoscape Canada – a site intended to explain the geologic and physical landscapes of some of Canada’s major cities

http://geoscape.nrcan.gc.ca/home.asp

Minerals and Metals Produced in Canada – includes an interactive exercise to demonstrate how developing a mine might work

http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/mms/school/e_mine.htm

Sageunay Flood, Quebec, 1996

http://sts.gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/page1/geoh/saguenay/saguenay.htm

National Atlas of Canada

http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/index.html

Images of Canada – Tour Canada from Space

http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/imgserv/tour/toure.html

Volcanoes of Canada

http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/gsc/pacific/vancouver/volcanoes_e.html

Geoscience Connections from Natural Resources Canada – useful links to all provincial geological sites, universities as well as to equivalent international sites

http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/gsc/connections_e.html

Wild Species 2000 – the state of wild species of plants and animals in Canada.

http://www.wildspecies.ca/en/home_E.html

Geomorphology in General

Color Landform Atlas of the United States

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html

Geomorphology from Space

http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/geomorphology/GEO_HOME_PAGE.html

Images Illustrating Principles of Geomorphology

http://geogweb.berkeley.edu/GeoImages/Wells/wells.html

UBC’s Earth and Ocean Sciences Images Collection

http://www.science.ubc.ca/~eoswr/cgi-bin/db_gallery/searchframe.html

Virtual Geomorphology

http://main.amu.edu.pl/%7Esgp/gw/gw.htm

Big Bend National Park Virtual Fieldtrip (Texas A&M)

http://geoweb.tamu.edu/faculty/herbert/bigbend/

Don Bain’s Virtual Reality Panoramas

A vast array of QTVR images covering a large proportion of western North America

http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/GeoImages/QTVR/QTVR.html#TOC

Virtual Geology Field Trip of Southern California

http://seis.natsci.csulb.edu/VIRTUAL_FIELD/vfmain.htm

More virtual fieldtrips

http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/anon/gpvirtual.html

Web Expedition.net

http://www.webexpeditions.net/

Virtual online EarthScience Center

http://www.riverdeep.net/earthscience/data/earthscience/earthscience_jump.jhtml

TerraQuest – Virtual Expeditions on the World Wide Web

http://www.terraquest.com/

Today on Planet Earth

Earthweek

http://www.earthweek.com/

OSEi Image of the Day (Operational Significant Event Imagery)

http://www.osei.noaa.gov/iod.html

Intellicast Weather Map

http://www.intellicast.com/LocalWeather/World/UnitedStates/SurfaceAnalysis/

Intellicast Satellite Image

http://www.intellicast.com/LocalWeather/World/UnitedStates/UnitedStates/

Latest Sea Surface Temperature Image (global) – from the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/sst/latest_sst.gif

Real Time US Composite Satellite Image – from the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/us_comp/

Latest Infra-Red Global Composite Satellite Image – from the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/latest_moll.gif

Latest Water Vapor Global Composite Satellite Image – from the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/wv/LATEST_WV.gif

Latest Land-Sea Temperature and Clouds Global Composite Satellite Image – from the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/latest_cmoll.gif

Latest Geostationary Satellite Image – from the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Navigate using the menu on the left to view images from GOES West, East and Meteosat.

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/west/

Real Time Hydrologic Data from the USGS

http://water.usgs.gov/realtime.html