1. The Earth from Space http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov is brilliant global database of images.

2. Landsat 7 from NASA  http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov  has satellite images the world over - but I loved the section Earth as Art.

3.Unversity of Dundee  http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/interesting.html is the best of the bunch from the UK with a set of images with certain weather conditions and hazards like this oil spill from the Sea Empress.

4. The Satellite Centre for Schools http://www.satproj.org.uk is very helpful  from a schools point of view.

5. Visible Earth http://visibleearth.nasa.gov is the bright lights web site using light pollution to map urbanisation. Also there are many about environmental impacts

6. Aerial photography of the UK - As you know you can get low resolution photography via www.multimap.com  A schools supplier in the UK is Wildgoose http://www.wgoose.co.uk/frm/index2.htm which is linked to  www.getmapping.com  now has full coverage of aerial photography.

7. Rainforest Images from The Brazilian Space Agency www.grid.inpe.br

8. Aerial images of the USA etc. http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com can be accessed by Place Name, from a Map Search or by Co-ordinates. There is not, however, full coverage.

9.The European Space Agency http://www.esa.int/ has some good stories including the monitoring of rainforest fires and some great ozone posters.

10. Bob Jones recommends the The Remote Sensing Tutorial if you want to know more detail about remote sensing. http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/start.html

11. Webavaition has excellent aerials of Staffordshire the North West and adjacent counties www.webbaviation.plus.com/Portfolio.htm

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