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Atmospheric
Environmental Service
Canada's "green" site.
Canada
Center for Remote Sensing - CCRS
CCRS is Canada's lead agency for acquisition
of remotely sensed data and for development of remote sensing applications.
This site is in English and French and includes an on-line image browser
and a clickable map of Canada. It also includes a sampling of what Landsat
Thematic Mapper images could look like at much higher resolutions.
CCRS/Satellite Operations Centre
588 Booth Street
Ottawa, Ontario, KIA OY7
Canada
Tel: +1-613-990-8033
Fax: +1-613-991-5538
Canadian
Space Agency -- CSA
CSA's David Florida laboratory plays
a major role in the development of Canada's space and communication industries.
Canada
Center for Mapping
This site and its services includes
the National Atlas Information Service (NAIS) of the Canada Center for
Mapping. It includes geographic data about Canada and maps regarding land
use, demographics, geology and ecology. Users of this site are able to
create and download custom maps of Canada.
Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG)
Box 5378, Station F
Ottawa, Ontario, K2C 3J1
Canada
Tel: +1-613-224 9851
Fax: +1-613-224 9577
E-mail: cig_acsg@inasec.ca
Canadian
Meteorological Centre
Canadian
Space Guide, Canadian Space News and Space Jobs
Three on-line newsletters and web sites
published fro time-to-time by the Internet Conveyor, Ltd. The monthly
Canadian Space News compiles details on Canadian space issues that would
otherwise be unavailable.
CSN URL: http://www.conveyot.com/space/news.html
tel: +1 613-562-2816
fax: +1 613 562 1784
Tamil: space@conveyor.com
CANSPACE-
Canadian Space Geodesy Forum
CANSPACE is a discussion group to help
communication among professionals working in space geodesy. A daily
information bulletin includes reports on solar and geomagnetic field activity.
Eurimage
Imagery of Canada is marketed by Eurimage,
http://www.eurimage.com/Common/Addresses.html, gathered by one or more
of the following satellites: AVHRR/TIROS (NOAA), ERS-1 and ERS-2
SAR (ESA), JERS-1 (RESTEC, Japan), KFA-1000 (SOVZOND, Russia), KVR-1000,
MK-4 and TK-350 (SOVINFORMSPUTNIK), LANDSAT (Space Imaging USA) and RESURS-01
(Swedish Space Corporation). For details contact:
Ms Luciana DiDomenico
Via Galileo Galilei
00044, Frascati
(RM)
Italy
tel:
+39-06 94 18 07 51
+39-06 40 69 42 24
fax: +39-06
94 16 109
+39-06 40 69 42 32
didomenico@eurimage.com
Famine Early Warning
System - FEWS
This sophisticated U.S. AID-funded project merges
weather imagery, rainfall data, ground observation, local price information
for agricultural products and related data for the entire continent of
Africa. Its objective is to provide early warning of potential food and
water crises. Much weather satellite imagery is available online.
FEWS Project
1611 N. Kent St., Suite 1002
Arlington, VA 22209
USA
tel: +1-703-522-7722
fax: +1-703-522-7729
email: info@fews.net
GRID-Canada
GRID is a UN sponsored information
center for high-quality environmental information. Located at http://www.ccrs.emr.ca/cdql/.
Prince Albert Satellite Station
P.O. Box 1150
Prince Albert, SK, S6V
5S7
Canada
Tel: 306-953-8536
Fax: 306-953-8573
1 km AVHRR data downlink and processing
center
Radarsat
International
Launched in November 1995, Radarsat
International provides rapid delivery of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
data useful in agriculture, cartography, hydrology, forestry, oceanography,
ice studies and coastal monitoring. Ground resolution can be as high as
8 meters, depending on the product.
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