Tools and Data

Tool 1

NASA Earth Observations (NEO)

http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/

The mission of NASA Earth Observations (NEO) is to provide satellite images of Earth so that people can picture the Earth system and how it varies. Images can be selected and basic analyses performed within NEO. In addition, images can be downloaded in jpeg, png, geotiff, and Google Earth format for analysis in other applications, such as image analysis programs, GIS programs, and geovisualization programs like Google Earth. All satellite imagery is in the public domain, which means it is freely available. When using NEO images, credit NASA as the source.

Tool Builder

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Tool Cost

Free

Tool Help

NEO: Help

Tool 2

Image Composite Explorer (ICE)

http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/

ICE is NEO's buit-in java program for image analysis. Using prepared images, ICE analyzes remotely-sensed observations of various Earth variables, provides the exact value of those variables at a given place in an image, and plots the results of analyses using a variety of graphing techniques.

Tool Builder

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Tool Cost

Free

Tool Help

Image Composite Explorer (ICE) help

Tool 3

ImageJ

https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/index.html

ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program. It runs, either as an online applet or as a downloadable application, on any computer with a Java 1.1 or later virtual machine. ImageJ can display, edit, analyze, process, save and print 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit images. It can read many image formats including TIFF, GIF and JPEG. It can "stack" a series of images that share a single window. It can calculate area and pixel value statistics of user-defined selections. It can measure distances and angles. Images can be zoomed up to 32:1 and down to 1:32. All analysis and processing functions are available at any magnification factor. Spatial calibration can be set to provide real world dimensional measurements.

Tool Builder

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Tool Cost

Free: This software is in the public domain.

Tool Help

Basic Concepts of Using ImageJ

Data Source

NASA Satellite Data

Regularly updated global maps from 1985 through the present are displayed in the NEO interface.

Geospatial Coverage

Global

Temporal Coverage

1985-2010 (present)

Earth Observatory Global Maps Collection

Over 30 global datasets from NASA map collections are available.