Resources

 

Newsletter

The twenty-first edition of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Newsletter has now been published and can be viewed by clicking here. 

• RS&P Newsletter Edition 20, February 2018
• RS&P Newsletter Edition 19, November 2017
• RS&P Newsletter Edition 18, August 2017
• RS&P Newsletter Edition 17, May 2017
• RS&P Newsletter Edition 16, February 2017
• Previous Newsletters

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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

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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)

• Machine Learning for Data Analysis (Coursera)
• Geospatial and Environmental Analysis (Coursera)
•  Imagery, Automation and Applications (Coursera)
• Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals (Coursera)
• Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals (Coursera)
• GIS Application (Coursera)
• Fundamentals of Digital Image and Video Processing (Coursera)
• Spatial Analysis and Satellite Imagery in a GIS (Coursera) 

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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

Open Libraries

• Open CV 
• AForge.NET/Accord.NET
• TensorFlow
• CUDA
• SimpleCV
• scikit Image
• Numpy
• Scipy
• PIL( Python Imaging Library)
• Mahotas
• SimpleITK
• Pgmagick
• Pycairo
• SOD CV library

Overviews are provided here: Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/image-manipulation-tools-for-python-6eb0908ed61f

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