OpenJUMP Tutorial

Digitale Höhendaten (Rasterformat)

• Geodata-Page from Phisan Santitamnont (Digital Chart of the World, GTOPO30 etc.)
• GLOBE DEM data (reviewed better than GTOPO30)
• GTOPO30 global elevation data (land only, ~ 1km resol. = 30 arc sec.)
• ETOPO5 global data (land and oceans, 10km resol. = 5min)
• Bathymetry, Topography & Global Relief
• Worldwide Digital Elevation Data - NIMA VMAP0/DTED 30-arc second data
• RIDGE Multibeam Synthesis Project (bathymetric data, ocean ridges...)
• USA-Data: DEM via EROS Data Center
• USA-Data: DEMs of all states
• Digital Elevation Data Catalogue

Digitale Karten (Raster- und Vektorformat)

• PANGAEA: Network for Geological and Environmental Data
• GSHHS - A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database
• Administrative boundary files for all seven continents (political boundaries, from CDC)
• Digital Chart of the World by Country (vector in E00 format)
• Vector data: Rivers, coastlines, World Data Bank II, political boundaries ... (at scales from 1:70000 to 1:2.5M)
• Digital Chart of the World (vector) - via PSU
• Digital Chart of the World (vector) - via UNEP GRID
• ArcData online via ESRI (partly commercial, vector)
• Scanned maps (raster)
• Worldwide city maps

Vegetation Daten (Rasterformat)

• EURASIA LAND COVER CHARACTERISTICS DATA BASE main page - data are here

Städtekoordinaten

• List of Cities in the World
• International city list

ADD - ANTARCTIC DIGITAL DATABASE

• ADD - sites(in ARC/INFO format)

Sozioeconomic Data (partly vector data)

• UNEP GRID Schweiz Online GIS data and maps
• NCGIA - global demography data
• SEDAC data via CIESIN (Metadata)

Misc. Data (partly vector data)

• NSIDC data catalog (Ice, climate, oceanic data, global datasets etc.)
• Coastline extractor
• UNEP GRID Arendal (Norwegen) Online GIS data and maps - human geography etc.
• GIS spatial data sites (from U.S. EPA)

Weather Data

• Worldwide Climate (select by town) (long term temperature/precipitation data)
• Selected long term temperature/precipitation data (Germany/World)(from Georg Müller, partly since 1701)
• Current weather situation (select by country) (from U.S. NOAA)
• Global datasets 1994-today: 11000 stations (from U.S. NCDC/NOAA) - no German data ...
• Georg's Wetterzentrale (from Georg Müller)
• National climate data center (from U.S. NCDC/NOAA)
• CLIMVIS (from U.S. NCDC/NOAA) - no German data...
• Selected German data (from DKRZ)
• More selected German data
• Ring europäischer Hobbymeteorologen

Satellite data:

• Free LANDSAT 7 images: Singapore, Greece, Israel
• Free SPOT, LANDSAT, DEMs etc. (from USGS)
• Free SPOT data (from www.remotesensing.org)
• SIR-C / X-SAR in full resolution via JPL
• SIR-C data (choose "Select data from a coverage map" at page bottom) - via USGS
• SeaWiFS (Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor), launched in August 1997, measures global ocean bio-optical properties. Images and data are available online.
• Free LANDSAT TM city data (ERDAS LAN-Format via NASA) - european MIRROR
• DLR: ISIS-Katalog (Quicklooks, selected LANDSAT TM in full resolution via GISIS)
• LANDSAT MSS example: San Antonio, Texas.
• Weather Satellite imagery on Internet (Übersicht)
• Weitere Informationen:
  • Watch earth observation satellites online moving across a global map (realtime)
  • Remote sensing links: Conferences, organizations, data server, ...
  • Satellite Instruments Information page
  • Satellite data page (technical data) (with examples - from NRSC)
  • Telsat Guide (chapter "Sensors")
  • Missions, Satellites and Instruments
  • Satellites Imagery FAQ

No data, but Tutorials:

• Remote sensing core curriculum
• Vol.1: Air photo interpretation and Photogrammetry
• Vol.2: Overview of Remote Sensing of the Environment
• Vol.3: Introductory Digital Image Processing
• Vol.4: Applications in Remote Sensing

• NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIScience
• USGS GIS tutorial (slightly outdated)
• MapRef - The Collection of Map Projections and Reference Systems for Europe (by Stefan A. Voser)
• Grids & Datums (ASPRS): Detailed descriptions of national grid systems