Niek Sanders



I am a software developer working on the DIRSIG project for the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing lab.

My work contact is: sanders at cis-rit-edu.
My personal homepage is: http://www.cis.rit.edu/~njs8030/


Some sites with remote sensing data freely available:

• Aviris Imagery
  Grad students can get up to one free data cube per year. Also a few cubes are public access.
  
  
• Landsat 7 Imagery
  Thousands of Landsat images sorted and available for download.
  
  
• ATMOS User Center
  Free data from European satellites studying the atmosphere.
  
  
• Aster Imagery
  Some free data from the Japanese Aster satellite.
  
  
• TOPEX/Poseidon Altimetry Data Sources
  Links to several online databases providing processed altimetry data.
  
  

Some sites of interest to researchers:

• Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
  Freely available datasets of socioeconomic data, supported by NASA.
  
  
• Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center
  Archive of numerous data sets, including a global DEM.
  
  
• ZIP Code Boundaries
  Physical coordinates corresponding to zip code boundaries.
  
  

Some sites of academic interest:

• MIT OpenCourseWare
  Curriculums and notes for nearly 500 MIT courses freely available.
  
  
• Mathematical Atlas
  A guide showing how the many disciplines in math relate and are applied.
  
  
• Gutenberg Project
  Thousands of complete, public-domain books freely available.
  
  
• comp.lang.c++.moderated
  An excellent, high-level discussion of the C++ language.
  
  
• C++ FAQ LITE
  Great resource for both beginning and advanced programmers.
  
  
• Cryptome
  Posting information that power holders would like to have censored.
  
  
• The Memory Hole
  Information that the five companies controlling US media don't make public.
  
  
• Numerical Recipes
  A standard text for numerical analyses, available for free.