Library Guides: Maps & Geospatial: Remotely Sensed Data: International or Global

Data Sources

LandScan (2000 - 2018 data)
The Pennsylvania State University Libraries subscribes to the LandScan global population dataset produced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Lab. LandScan data represent the finest spatial resolution global population dataset current available. The LandScan archive provides annually continuous data back to 2000. Data are available for download and as streaming data services.

The LandScan Global Population Databases, developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, represent the finest resolution global population distribution databases available. Offering the most accurate and reliable geographically-based population distribution models, LandScan is a useful application in research, educational, humanitarian and corporate settings. The East View Geospatial LandScan Global Archive provides web access to population data from 2000 to 2017. GIS web services (web map service (WMS) and web coverage service (WCS)) are also available.

European Space Agency Earth Online
Earth Online provides discovery and download access to remote sensing datasets produced by the European Space Agency.

Copernicus Open Access Hub (European Commission)
Sentinel Hub Public Collection
EO Browser
Ready-to-use imagery and apps from Esri
Includes information on imagery collections in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, Multispectral Landsat, Sentinel-2, National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) (2010-2019), World Imagery basemap, world elevation, and imagery applications
Resources for Teaching Imagery & Remote Sensing (Esri)
Includes information on lessons, data, teaching resources, and recorded webinars
Introduction to Imagery & Remote Sensing (A Learn ArcGIS Project) Esri
Includes exercises to introduce learners to imagery and remote sensing
Imagery Workflows (Esri)
Provides documentation on the management, use, and analysis of imagery content

USGS Early Warning and Environmental Monitoring Program (EWEM)
EWWM provides access to remote sensing and derived products around the international themes of climate change, natural resource management, environmental change detection, food security monitoring, water resource assessments, and hazard identification/mitigation.

Google Earth Engine
Google Earth Engine is a planetary-scale platform based on remote sensing data for environmental analysis. In addition to providing access to the Google data archive, partners are provided access to develop and run processes using Google’s parallel processing resources (i.e. idle Google servers).

Planet Education and Research Program
Includes form to fill out for access to imagery for non-commercial research purposes