----------------------------Original message---------------------------- As an addemdum to HelenJane Armstrong's message about (primarily) satellite imagery- there is an enormous archives of astronaut photography, officially Space Shuttle Earth Observations Photography (SSEOP), which includes the pre-shuttle missions as well. Browsing-quality versions of small subsets of the archives are accessible through the Imaging Services web site at Johnson Space Center: http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/html/home.htm The best quality photo products of SSEOP photography are available through Media Services Corp, Johnson Space Center. Call 713-483-4321 for ordering information. NASA has released two archival videodiscs of SSEOP photographs, covering the period 1981-1993. The two videodiscs contain, collectively, 150,000 browsing-quality videoframe versions of SSEOP photographs. The videodiscs, used with the UCSB software applications Wild Blue and Yonder, allow robust querying of the SSEOP attribute database and fast image access and image management of the video images. Ultimately SSEOP photos should be used as photos. Unlike LANDSAT and SPOT, all SSEOP photography is cheap- copyright free, available to anybody on Earth for reproduction costs. For way more information than this on SSEOP access (the crown jewels of the American space program) see my recent article "Wild Blue and Yonder improve access to Space Shuttle Earth Observations Photography" published in the NASA Science Information Systems Newsletter, October, 1995 (No. 37, p. 7) _ _ (o)(o) ----------------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo---- John Cloud c/o Geography Department University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106 FAX: 805-893-7782 Home: 805-963-1632 E-mail: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------