[UW-GIS-L] access to landsat

[A. Zald]

The UW Libraries has commercially acquired global satellite imagery 1990 
and 2000 (excluding the poles) for which there are indexes on wagda and 
tiles can be requested by current UW affiliates.

There is some additional satellite imagery at the RTI ArcSDE server 
http://www.ruraltech.org/gis/data/

About a year ago there was a proposal being drafted by faculty at WSU 
(which is currently being revived by Mark Swanson, now on the faculty 
there) to create a Washington View archive (as a component of the 
AmericaView program http://www.americaview.org/) for a wide variety of 
remote sensing imagery including satellite.  Not sure of the time table 
for that proposal but support from UW researchers would certainly be 
helpful.  I will probably be back in touch with this group and others to 
solicit those letters.

My inquiries about buying into access for SPOT Imagery at prices 
discounted for higher ed didn't go very far.  Interest was dispersed 
departmentally and in terms of intensity of use in compare to the up front 
and per scene costs.

Who knows of other satellite resources that can be shared among UW 
researchers?  Can I link to them from WAGDA (wagda.lib.washington.edu)?

Anne
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Anne Zald
Map Collection & Cartographic Information Services
University of Washington Libraries
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> Message: 1

> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:01:48 -0700

> From: Harvey Greenberg <hgreen at u.washington.edu>

> Subject: Re: [UW-GIS-L] Imagery For Everyone (fwd)

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> This is good news. Is there now a collection (a library, as it were) of

> landsat images being shared at the UW? Who is organizing it?

>

> harvey

>

> A. Zald wrote:

>> Attached is a news release from the USGS announcing that their 35 year

>> archive of Landsat imagery is on a fast track for free online

>> distribution by the end of January 2009. If the attachment doesn't

>> come through it is also posted in the news section of

>> http://wagda.lib.washington.edu/

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>> Anne Zald

>> Map Collection & Cartographic Information Services

>> University of Washington Libraries

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