seanp@amix.commodore.com (Sean Petty) (02/08/91)
Does anyone know where (or if) any Landsat Photographs are available via
anon FTP... Or better yet, is there a government office that makes these
available (at a cost, of course!) ? I am interested in obtaining some of
these, but am unsure where to start.
Any help is greatly appreciated...
Sean
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undrground!seanp@amix.commodore.comsmith@sndpit.enet.dec.com (Willie Smith) (02/08/91)
In article <u961w3w163w@undrground>, undrground!seanp@amix.commodore.com (Sean Petty) writes... > Does anyone know where (or if) any Landsat Photographs are available via >anon FTP... Or better yet, is there a government office that makes these >available (at a cost, of course!) ? I am interested in obtaining some of >these, but am unsure where to start. I doubt you will find them by FTP, the actual digital datasets are still pretty expensive. _But_, you can get black-and-white 1:1M prints, negatives, or positives for $10, $18, $12 respectively for any Landsat data more than 2 years old from EDC, (Eros (Earth Resources Orbiting Satellite) Data Center). Call them at (605) 594-6511. You get 80 meter resolution from the MSS scanner, 135x180 kilometers on a picture 135x180 mm in size. I think you have to select one band from (green, red, near IR, second near IR), but I'm not sure. They sell a bunch of other stuff, including raw data tapes, but the photos are downright cheap! Apparently since this stuff was gathered with taxpayer's dollars, they have to make it available. Willie Smith smith@sndpit.enet.dec.com smith%sndpit.enet.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com {Usenet!Backbone}!decwrl!sndpit.enet.dec.com!smith