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Publications

Open Access Journals

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information - Publications within the areas of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Laser Scanning and GIS https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi
Remote Sensing - Publications mainly focusing on remote sensing and earth observation aspects. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing
Journal of Applied Remote Sensing - Publications mainly focusing on applied remote sensing and earth observation. https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-applied-remote-sensing?SSO=1
Sensors: Publication covering topics with all kinds of sensors including optical and not optical earth observation sensors and terrestrial sensors. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors
Forests - Journal focusing on forestry and forest ecology applying Remote Sensing and Earth Observation https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests

Members' Journal

Journal of Spatial Sciences is a bi-annual publication, published in March and September each year. This Journal is available on-line as part of SSSI membership.
Journal of Spatial Sciences - The professional papers regularly describe aspects of practice and implementation of techniques relating to cartography. Geographic information science. https://sssi.org.au/knowledge-hub/body-of-knowledge/journal-of-spatial-science

Journals (full access)

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Publications within the area of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Laser Scanning and GIS. https://www.journals.elsevier.com/isprs-journal-of-photogrammetry-and-remote-sensing
Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (PE&RS) - Journal of the American Society of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry (ASPRS) with publications within the area of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Laser Scanning and GIS. https://www.asprs.org/asprs-publications/pers
The Photogrammetric Record - Journal of the British Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society with publications within the area of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Laser Scanning and GIS. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14779730
Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science - International journal published by the German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation (DGPF) covering the progress and application of photogrammetric methods, remote sensing technology and the interconnected field of geoinformation science https://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geography/journal/41064
International Journal of Remote Sensing - Journal published by the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society covering mainly Remote Sensing related research topics. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tres20/current
Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing - Publications of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) and the official journal of the Canadian Remote Sensing Society (CRSS-SCT) with topics within Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and GIS. https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ujrs20
Remote Sensing of Environment - Remote Sensing of Environment serves the Earth observation community with the publication of results on the theory, science, applications, and technology of remote sensing studies. https://www.journals.elsevier.com/remote-sensing-of-environment
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing - Journal focusing on the theory, concepts, and techniques of science and engineering as applied to sensing the land, oceans, atmosphere, and space; and the processing, interpretation, and dissemination of this information. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=36
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters - Journal addressing new ideas and formative concepts in remote sensing as well as important new and timely results and concepts https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=8859
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing - Journal addresses the growing field of applications in Earth observations and remote sensing, and also provides a venue for the rapidly expanding special issues that are being sponsored by the IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Society. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4609443

Conference Proceedings

ISPRS Archives - Contain the peer-reviewed proceedings and the scientific and technical presentations of all ISPRS Congresses. https://www.isprs.org/publications/archives.aspx
ISPRS Annals - Contain selected full paper double-blind peer-reviewed scientific papers of ISPRS Congresses, Symposia and a number of Conferences and Workshops. https://www.isprs.org/publications/annals.aspx
ASPRS Conference Proceedings - Contains proceedings of many ASPRS events, some of which are member only and others that are open access. https://www.asprs.org/conference-proceedings.html
RSP newsletter https://sssi.org.au/sssi-community/commissions/remote-sensing-photogrammetry/resources
ISPRS eBulletin - the official bulletin of the ISPRS which contains items such as the ISPRS Annual Reports, general news of ISPRS activities, event reports and more. https://www.isprs.org/news/newsletter/default.aspx

Conference Reports by Members

39th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing | Kuala Lumpur | October 2018 | Bruce Forster
38th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing | New Delhi | October 2017 | Bruce Forster
56^th Photogrammetric Week (PhoWo) | Germany | September 2017 | John Trinder
37^th International Symposium on the Remote Sensing of the Environment | South Africa | May 2017 | John Trinder
Low Cost 3D Workshop | Germany | December 2014 | Petra Helmholz and David Belton
54^th Photogrammetric Week (PhoWo) | Germany | September 2013 | John Trinder
International Conference on Computer and Robot Vision | Canada | May 2013 | Abdul Nurunnabi
Joint Workshop of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | Germany | May 2013 | Antje Thiele and Petra Helmholz
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing/GEO Workshop on High Resolution Global Land Cover Mapping | China | April 2013 | John Trinder
35^th International Symposium on the Remote Sensing of the Environment | China | April 2013 | John Trinder

LEARNING RESOURCES AND WEBINARS

Webinars

ASPRS https:www.asprs.org/geobytes.html

Short Courses

Coursera provides access to the internatinal education provders, partnering with universities and organisations to offer courses online: https://www.coursera.org
Open University Australia - Browse hundreds of courses from Australian universities and study online to gain qualifications that are the same as on-campus. https://www.open.edu.au

Available (as at July 2019)

FREE DATA, SOFTWARE AND LIBRARIES

Open Data National Providers

Geosciences Australia - Earth Observation from Space provides Earth observation services, expert advice, and information for decision makers. The dataset includes historial airborne images, Sentinel and number of land cover dataset. https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/earth-obs
Bureau of Meteorology - The BOM provides a vast range of environmental data to the public and business and public sector clients. http://reg.bom.gov.au/reguser/index.shtml
Open Data platform Australia https://data.gov.au/
Open Data VIC - Discover and access Victorian Government open data https://data.vic.gov.au/
Open Data NSW - Helping you find and use NSW Government Data https://data.nsw.gov.au/
Open Data QLD- https://data.qld.gov.au/
Open Data WA - Find data published by government https://data.wa.gov.au/
Open Data TAS - Sharing Tasmanian location based information https://www.thelist.tas.gov.au/app/content/data
Open Data SA - The South Australian Government open data directory. https://data.sa.gov.au/
Open Data NT - https://data.nt.gov.au/
Open Data ACT - https://data.act.gov.au/

Open Data International Providers

USGS Earth Explore - Everything from historical airborne images to SAR, Landsat and Radar images are available. While the focus is on the US, international datasets are available, too. https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
Google Earth Engine - Google Earth Engine combines a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis capabilities and makes it available for scientists, researchers, and developers to detect changes, map trends, and quantify differences on the Earth's surface. https://earthengine.google.com/
Sentinels Scientific Data Hub - This hub is the official download headquarters for the European Space Agency’s Sentinel satellite data and offers Sentinel-1, 2a and 2b imagery. https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/
NOAA CLASS - NOAA uses an online library system called the Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS) to store a plethora of environmental data. Data comes from the US Department of Defense (DoD) Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES), NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), and other derived data. https://www.avl.class.noaa.gov/saa/products/welcome;jsessionid=1563B13C7CB431E62498A9CCBD4C24EE
NASA Earthdata Search - Large choices of satellite data including Aqua, Terra, Aura, TRMM, CALIPSO, NASA DC, ENVISAT, METEOSAT, GOES, Landsat, SMAP, MERRA, Nimbus, Suomi-NPP, NOAA satellites, GPS satellites, and more… https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/
ESA Online Dissemination - This is the European Space Agency’s client for Earth Observation Catalog and Ordering Services. https://esar-ds.eo.esa.int/oads/access/
National Institute for Space Research (INPE) - The partnership between Brazil and China has their own image catalog of remotely-sensed data which lets you download free satellite imagery using the INPE Image Catalog. http://www.dgi.inpe.br/CDSR/
Bhuvan Indian Geo-Platform of ISRO - The platform is well-built but most of the data is for India only. This includes IMS-1 (Hyperspectral), Cartosat, OceanSat and ResourceSat – which are all Indian satellites. https://bhuvan-app3.nrsc.gov.in/data/download/index.php
JAXA’s Global ALOS 3D World - 30-meter spatial resolution digital surface model (DSM) constructed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA). https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/aw3d30/
VITO Vision – Coarse Vegetation Data - This website offers PROBA-V, SPOT-Vegetation and METOP free satellite imagery. These coarse resolution satellites carves out vegetation patterns of the Earth’s surface. http://www.vito-eodata.be/PDF/portal/Application.html#Home
NOAA Digital Coast - Access to benthic, elevation, imagery, land cover and socio-economic data. You get a range of free satellite imagery to choose from such as radar, infrared and true color composites. https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/
DigitalGlobe Free Product Samples - If you want to play with some of the sharpest satellite data in the world, these free satellite imagery samples are just for you. http://www.digitalglobe.com/
Geo-Airbus - The Geo Airbus Defense System is your provider for SPOT, Pleiades, RapidEye and TerraSAR data. http://www.geo-airbusds.com/en/23-sample-imagery
UNAVCO Research Data - University NAVSTAR Consortium (UNAVCO) is an organization of universities who support scientific research using geodesy technology e.g. flooding, plate tectonics, earthquakes. https://www.unavco.org/data/sar/sar.html
ISPRS data collection - LArge collection of different datasets ranging from Close-range images to aerial and satellite images to GIS data such as CityGML. https://www.isprs.org/data/default.aspx
Computer Vision Test Images - Large catellouge of images used for benchmarking in the Computer Vision field. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/cil/ftp/html/v-images.html
Vision and Autonomous Systems Center's Image Database - Datasets from face and facial expressions to motion data. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/vision/vasc/idb/www/html_permanent/index.html

Open Software

Orfeo toolbox - Orfeo ToolBox (OTB) is an open-source project for state-of-the-art remote sensing. https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/
GIMP - GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes. https://www.gimp.org/
QGIS - Create, edit, visualise, analyse and publish geospatial information on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD https://qgis.org/en/site/
MICMAC
COLMAP
VisualSFM